I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!
In fact, this week’s comic is about a Firste Thanks-giving…
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And Happy Black Friday! One crazy trick to beat the crowds and get gifts for everyone on our list with the click of a button is below!
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btw, I mentioned last week that photos of angry people seemed to drive traffic to this Newsletter, and included such a photo as an experiment. Well, it received about average traffic, so the hypothesis was not confirmed.
Maybe there’s hope for humanity after all.
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is “The Origin of Species II” (from 2012).
On the request of, and with thanks to, Inner Hive member Kim Exclamation Point, who helps make Tom the Dancing Bug possible.
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And this week the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from this installment (from 2010), including another story referencing a 17th century contact between Europeans and Native Americans.
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BLACK FRIDAY TIP:
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And of course: NEW BOOKS are described and offered below as well. (I’m now told that because of supply chain problems, they won’t arrive in time for the holidays, but they will make wonderful Happy January presents!)
Stay well, and stay dry,
And thank you for reading,
Rb
Otis, wet at the beach last weekend.
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TOM THE DANCING BUG AWAKENS, VOLUME 6 IN THE COMPLETE TOM THE DANCING BUG -- 2012-2015. This volume covers the Obama years and the rise of Trump, and it includes the introduction of the feature Chagrin Falls and installments of many other Tom the Dancing Bug favorites, such as God-Man, Lucky Ducky, and Super-Fun-Pak Comix. It also includes other comics Ruben Bolling created during those years: a two-page New Yorker spread, and six daily installments of the comic strip Cul de Sac.
TOM THE DANCING BUG, WITHOUT THE BAD ONES: THE VERY, VERY, VERY* BEST OF TOM THE DANCING BUG, 1990-2021. 31 years in the making, this book collects the top, most popular, most talked-about, most important, most Tom-the-Dancing-Bug comics in Tom the Dancing Bug's history. Imagine the thrill of reading and owning the award-winning and award-losing comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug, distilled into one handsome tome containing only its scientifically determined very, very, VERY* best.
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