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This week’s comic is THE VERY REPUBLICAN DUO!
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday Sam Roland, the Detective Who Dies, in “The Mystery of the Tap-Dancing Mummy” (from 1995).
On the request of, and with thanks to, Inner Hive member Simon Ellacott, who, through the sheer force of his relentless awesomeness, 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 2015)…
… and from this 2015 installment.
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I have no current plans to evacuate Twitter, but I am making preparations just in case. If you want to join me on other social media options, I’m on:
Instagram @rubenbolling, but who’s to say whether Mark is better than Elon?
Mastodon @rubenbolling
Counter.Social @rubenbolling
🤷♂️ We’ll see…
Whatever happens with these billionaires, please know that I shall remain your humble servant in comics,
Rb
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Two new Tom the Dancing Bug books are here! The offer below (New Book Package) will only last a few more weeks.
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 June.
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The Tom the Dancing Bug Newsletter. Copyright 2022 Ruben Bolling.
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