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This week’s comic is a Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at January 6. Watch Donald, the boy president, and John, his imaginary publicist, insurrect, defraud, obstruct, and conspire!
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is “The League of Public Domain Properties” (from 2008).
[commentary and legal update can be found in this week’s Inner Hive post]
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Due to circumstances, no Super-Fun-Pak Comix intallment is included this week. This is not the time to point fingers and make accusations about who forgot to put what flash drive in which backpack. Let’s just agree that the problem is the system that allows this kind of thing to happen, and therefore we’re all at fault. Just take your share of the blame and move on.
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However, in memory of Tony Dow, the actor who played Wally Cleaver, and who passed away on Wednesday, I reprint this 2012 comic. Wally made an appearance in Tom the Dancing Bug after Obama's reelection. Fox pundit Bill O'Reilly had said this meant the end of “traditional America,” which he defined as “Ward, June, Wally and the Beave.”
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The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug program continues with its brand new addition:
Volume 5 - Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor (June, 2022)!!
TOM THE DANCING BUG: EAT THE POOR, VOLUME 5 IN THE COMPLETE TOM THE DANCING BUG -- 2007-2011. Clover Press’s Complete Tom the Dancing Bug program marches on with the fifth chronological volume (and third volume published to date), covering every installment of the award-winning (and two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist) comic strip, from 2007-2011. This volume covers the years of Obama’s election and The Great Recession, with a particular focus on Lucky Ducky, "the Poor Little Duck Who’s Rich in Luck.” But the topics also range far from the political and topical, into waffle irons, drunk shirtless guys, and particle accelerators.
And of course, it also features Tom the Dancing Bug favorites like God-Man, Super-Fun-Pak Comix, Billy Dare, Boy Adventurer, and Charley the Australopithecine. It also includes other comics Ruben Bolling created during those years: a Recession-themed comic created for Harper’s Magazine; and the legendary, insane Toy Story/Cormac McCarthy mashup he did for The Village Voice.
The back cover of Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor:
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