Inner Hivers know that I was suffering from bronchitis earlier this week, so I’m using this opportunity to let them know that I’m RECOVERING! Watch out! My thanks to my family, most of whom were also under the cloud of bronchitis; to antibiotics; to steroids; and to the constant concerned attention of Otis the wonder dog.
(Covid tests were taken: Negative.)
This week’s comic is an “Education of Louis” installment, about his late parents…
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Okay, last week’s Newlsetter’s image of The Firste Thanks-giving garnered the most views in the Newsletter’s history, so I’m giving up on my theory about photos of angry people drawing in readers. Humanity is redeemed.
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is “God-Man’s Reelection Campaign” (from 1995).
On the request of, and with thanks to, Inner Hive member Brien Marshall, 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)….
…and this one (also from 2011).
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When the producers of the movie Clifford the Big Red Dog brought me on board, did they know that I already had in my I.P. arsenal the perfect characters for a sequel?
They did not.
But they will now.
Hoagy. Ellington. Bounder. And there’s more…
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I have not been well enough to take a picture of Otis this week. Please know that he’s been taking good care of me.
And please do look below and if the generous spirit of Otis moves you, Share, Join, Gift and/or Buy. Deals you can’t afford to miss!
Be well, or weller than me,
Rb
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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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