Good Morning, good friends.
This week’s comic is “Lucky Dog,” featuring that hilarious hound who is so wealthy, he doesn’t pay any taxes at all!
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is a Percival Dunwoody adventure about those mysterious rocket cats (from 2014, or whenever Percival says it was).
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And this week the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from this installment (from 2007).
Oh my god, this reminds me there was a time people were making fortunes creating primitive cartoons that could be played on flip phones.
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On the occasion of this report about a supposed leaked Russian document detailing Putin’s 2016 plan to put Trump in the White House, I thought I’d reprint a Tom the Dancing Bug about that, but there were so many to choose from.
Funny that for a super-secret spy operation, it was obvious and to so many people, including a cartoonist sitting at home in his apartment (and, I’m sure, his Newsletter subscribers). Funnier that it still totally worked.
Well, here’s one, from August of that year…
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That’ll do it for this week.
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Otherwise, have a fantastic Friday and a wondrous weekend!
Your chum,
Rb
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Two new Tom the Dancing Bug books are being published in November, and are now available for pre-order! You can reserve your copies today (and get the 2021 New Book Package before the price goes up!).
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, 1991-2021. 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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