I’ll be in Columbus, Ohio on October 7, 8, and 9 at Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, a comics festival that is also serving as the home of this year’s Association of American Editorial Cartoonists conference.
I’ll intermittently be at the AAEC’s tables (Tables 128-129). If you are attending, you could check this space and/or my Twitter account if you are interested in more information about my appearances.
Volume 4 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug program has been published, and I’m now taking orders for signed/sketched copies of TOM THE DANCING BUG: ALL-MIGHTY COMICS.
Clover Press’s promotional copy for the book:
Clover Press’s Complete Tom the Dancing Bug program streaks forward with the fourth chronological volume, covering every installment of the award-winning (and two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist) comic strip, from 2003-2006.
All-Mighty Comics includes favorite characters of Tom the Dancing Bug, such as: God-Man, the Omnipotent Superhero; Charley the Australopithecine; Billy Dare, Boy Adventurer; Dinkle, the Un-Lovable Loser; and even the origin of Lucky Ducky. It also includes a special comic Bolling created for Mad Magazine during the covered years: “Educa-Fun.”
Tom the Dancing Bug is the wildly popular, groundbreaking comic strip that Mark Hamill called “wondrous, whimsical, and witty,” and that led Seth Meyers to recently write, “The fact that Tom the bug can keep dancing in this day and age is a testament to Ruben Bolling’s skills as a cartoonist!”
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You can purchase the book in bookstores, at online retailers like Amazon, and from the publisher, Clover Press.
But you can purchase SIGNED/SKETCHED books directly from me. If you order from me, you get:
-> If you would like the books signed “to” a particular name (your name, the name of a gift recipient, etc.), type that name in the field below. If not, you can leave that field blank. The book will still be signed and sketched in.
-> If you are a member of the Inner Hive, enter the email address you use for that membership in the indicated field. If you are not, no problem, you can leave that field blank.
This offer is for U.S. deliveries only (includes Media Mail postage). But I welcome international orders! For deliveries outside the U.S., please contact teamdancingbug at gmail dot com
$69.97, cheap
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Visit the Tom the Dancing Bug Store to see the other books and book packages available from The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug program.
CLICK HERE FOR THE TOM THE DANCING BUG STORE.
Be sure to check out the SPECIAL PRICE for the Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor / Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens package!
Just for fun, here is the back cover of Volume 5, Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor:
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I’m so honored that last night my colleagues in the National Cartoonists Society awarded Tom the Dancing Bug with the 2022 Award for Editorial Cartooning.
I’m only disappointed that I wasn’t able to be there for the gala ceremony at which the award was announced last night. Not because I wanted to give a speech. And certainly not because I wanted to wear a tux. But because I’d have loved to hoist some beers with my buddies and heroes when the ceremony was over.
As always, I thank:
My family and friends;
The Proud and Mighty Inner Hive;
My syndicate, Andrews McMeel Syndication;
My web clients, BoingBoing.net, DailyKos.com, and GoComics.com;
All of my newspaper print clients; and of course
Jeremy Renner.
Now let’s get back to work.
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9/20/22 UPDATE: Here is a video on the award presentation that my publisher Clover Press somehow obtained. Thanks to Lisa Tarry of Andrews McMeel Syndication for accepting the award on my behalf.
My favorite part is the boy in the foreground who seems puzzlingly pleased that I won. Does the NCS hire child actors to pretend to be delighted by the results?