Hey, everyone.
Tomorrow (Friday, 10/9/21) at 1:30pm ET, I’m going to be on a panel sponsored by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists discussing the Pulitzer Prize fiasco of 2021. It’s online and free for anyone to join. Here is the link to register.
Background on what happened with the Pulitzer Prize is here.
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This week’s comic is “I Think That I Shall Never See…”
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From 2014:
School Time Rock shows that Republicans using extortion, and threatening to bring great harm to the United States unless they get their way, is just a Normal, Very Good part of the legislative process…
Funny how comics from the Obama administration are relevant in 2021.
SPEAKING OF WHICH: Yes, the above comic and many, many more are in the upcoming book Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens, Volume VI in the Complete Tom the Dancing Bug series (Clover Press), 2012-2015. Can you order a copy today so that you get it right away when it comes out next month? YES, YOU CAN. (Click for info.)
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is “Games Louis Play: Planning for Best-Case Scenarios” (from 1993).
On the request of, and with thanks to, Inner Hive member Robert G., who helps make this comic possible.
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And this week the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from this installment (from 2009).
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Speaking of trees (were we speaking of trees?), one noble individual provided refuge for a squirrel being chased by a fearsome puppy by the name of Otis. (For the record, the squirrel was never in any danger.)
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Yours Indeed,
Rb
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Two new Tom the Dancing Bug books are being released next month. Haven’t you reserved you copies yet???
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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