Month: March 2022

UPDATE 4/1/22: All systems are go. I'll see you there.  Any further messages about the event will be on my Twitter feed: @rubenbolling

 

Anyone in, or around, or willing to travel to, the NYC area:

I'm planning to be at the Society of Illustrators' MoCCA Arts Festival 2022 on Saturday, April 2, 3pm – 5pm:  Metropolitan Pavilion located at 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011.  An entrance ticket is required.

I'll have a limited supply of my books Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens and Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse(Volumes 6 and 7 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug, respectively) that I'll be signing/sketching/selling, at cover price.  (I'll also have some Super-Fun-Pak Comix Readers and Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones, not sold at cover price).  I'm also happy to say Hi and sketch for anyone who comes by, whether purchasing or not.

You'll find me at the National Cartoonists Society table, Table C252.

(Cash or Venmo.)

But check back at this space to confirm before coming!  We're living in a time when things could change for the event or for me, and if there's any change in plans, I'll post any updates right here.

Info about the books: bit.ly/TTDBbooks

Like many people, I'm not sure what to do in the face of all this evil and suffering.  I've read that one of most effective ways to help is to donate to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, because they already have existing infrastructure on the ground and can use your money to help people immediately.

I've donated, and I'm doing another tiniest drop-in-the-bucket thing:  Anyone who also decides to donate to UNHCR can email me and enter a random drawing to win a signed/sketched copy of the new book, Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens.

Here's how to participate:
1. Donate any amount to UNHCR;
2. Send a screenshot of the receipt or forward the confirming email to teamdancingbug@gmail.com; and
3. Use the subject heading TOM THE DANCING BUG UNHCR DONATION.

You'll be entered in a drawing for a free book.
Donate and send the email between today at 2:00pm ET through Sunday night 11:59pm ET to qualify.
If you win, I'll email you back for your postal address.
USA addresses only please.

Thanks,

Ruben