Tom the Dancing Bug won the 2008 AAN Award for the Best Cartoon in Alternative Newsweeklies.
It’s the fourth time Tom the Dancing Bug has won the award (it also won in 2002, 2003 and 2007). Tom the Dancing Bug is the only comic strip to have won more than once, and the only comic strip to be named a finalist every year in the award’s existence, since 2001.
Even if I thought the comic deserved it, this run of awards would be puzzling to me. Each year there is a different panel of judges, and I think the other comics in alternative newsweeklies represent some of the best, most innovative cartooning ever.
It is not at all false modesty when I say that I don’t get this.