It's the Most Rennerful Time of the Year, Again

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Dec 24, 2021

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Jeremy to the World!

This week’s comic is a new installment of Chagrin Falls: “Reading, ‘Riting and Racism.”

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Over on Twitter, I’m doing a daily countdown of the Top Ten Tom the Dancing Bugs of 2021! Follow along, argue and discuss the the rankings with your friends over hot cocoa!

Today’s entry is the Number Seven, the third Q-Nuts installment, “It’s the Delta Variant, Charlie Brown!”

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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is “Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids, in ‘Lude Awakening’” (from 2015).

On the request of, and with thanks to, Inner Hive member Joe Strike, 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 2011).

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We here at Tom the Dancing Bug wish all our readers that whatever holiday they celebrate may it be Merry, Safe and Healthy!

And Otis seconds that sentiment.

Bestest,

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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.

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