Hello, friends!
Guess what!!! The Constitutional rights of citizens have become optional!!!
This week’s comic is “Texas Anti-Abortion Law Copycats,” or “How to Exempt Your State From Any Constitutional Right”
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Oh, the hilarity of reproductive rights being stripped from women!
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is Billy Dare, in “Chasing Fast Food” (from 2012).
On the request of, and with thanks to, Inner Hive member Poppy Crocker, 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 2009).
“Product Placement Comics” was the result of an actual fundraiser I held for The Committee to Protect Journalists. In a shocking twist, I ended up taking the top TWO bids, both of them for books.
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Okay, that’s it. Below you’ll find:
a button to Share this Newsletter with friends
an picture of Otis boldly exploring his city; and
encouragement to increase your Tom the Dancing Bugginess
Galloping Galoshes, have a great, safe weekend, people.
Yours Indeed,
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.
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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The Tom the Dancing Bug Newsletter. Copyright 2021 Ruben Bolling.
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