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This week’s comic is “Abortion Travel!” Fun and glamorous!!
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Anyone in the NYC area, or willing to "consider a fun and exciting" "glamorous trip to another state":
I'm planning to be at the Society of Illustrators' MoCCA Arts Festival 2022 on Saturday, April 2, 3pm - 5pm: Metropolitan Pavilion located at 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011
I'll have a limited supply of my books Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens and Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse (Volumes 6 and 7 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug, respectively) that I'll be signing/sketching/selling, at cover price. (I'll also have some Super-Fun-Pak Comix Readers and Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Oneses, not sold at cover price). I'm also happy to say hi and sketch and fist bump and answer questions about wombats, etc. whether you’re purchasing books or not.
You'll find me at the National Cartoonists Society table. But check my blog tomthedancingbug.com to confirm before coming! We're living in a time when things could change for the event or for me, and if there's any change in plans, that's where I'll post it.
I’ll include a reminder in next Friday’s Newsletter, at which time it will be “Tomorrow!”
Info about the books: bit.ly/TTDBbooks
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is a Super-Fun-Pak Comix from 2000.
On the request of, and with thanks to, Inner Hive member Billy Dare to Be Stupid, 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 2013).
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Re the new books Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens, and Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones:
After all the Supply Chain delays, I now have sent ALL BOOKS ordered as of yesterday out to their loving new owners, and have books in stock ready to go. So I can make this guarantee…
Order the new Tom the Dancing Bug books directly from me ("2021 New Book Package" in link) by Thursday 3/31, and your books WILL be signed to you, sketched in, and sent out by Saturday 4/2! Or you get the books and your money back!
Ka-Ching!
Otis says, “Don’t sleep on this deal!”
Okay, I’ll see you all next week.
Rb
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Two new Tom the Dancing Bug books are here! Order your copies today.
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.
Ordering info here.
The back cover of Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens:
Order directly from me (with the “2021 New Book Package,” here’s the link again), and you’ll also get this exclusive pdf booklet with “Artist’s” materials, and these authenticated bookmarks. And I’ll sketch in the books and sign them, to you personally if you like.
The offer of the 2021 New Book Package expires when Volume 5 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug is released in late April.
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My email address is tomdbug@gmail.com
The Tom the Dancing Bug Newsletter. Copyright 2022 Ruben Bolling.
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