Hitting the links

Here is a year-end rundown of Tom the Dancing Bug links and ways to get more Tom the Dancing Bug in your life:

👉 First and easiest, you can sign up for the free weekly Tom the Dancing Bug Review newsletter here. In each edition, you’ll get links to the weekly comic, plus other comics and stuff. No muss, no fuss.

👉 Second and bestest, you join Tom the Dancing Bug’s INNER HIVE! What is the Inner Hive?  It’s a paid subscription service. It’s a secret society. It’s a ragtag group of ne’er-do-wells with ideas that are so crazy, they just might work.

It’s the team that literally makes it possible for Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world.

And we want YOU as a member!  Every week, you’ll get an email with that week’s Tom the Dancing Bug AT LEAST A DAY BEFORE IT’S PUBLISHED ANYWHERE ONLINE.  Plus exclusive commentary, insights, process pics, extra comics, jokes, puzzles, recipes, and all benefits accruing.

How can you join?  Let me count the ways:

1. You can join on Patreon, now the most popular platform for new Inner Hivers, offering not only emails but also a website on which you can read the posts.  Plus, the Patreon option offers different levels of membership, with varying benefits.  (Monthly automatic recurring payments.)

2.  You can join at MailChimp/CampaignZee, the platform on which the Inner Hive was first launched, way back in 2012, offering weekly emails only (no website option). (Semi-annual automatic recurring payments.)

3.  You can join on Substack, the latest platform to join the Inner Hive family.  (Monthly or annual automatic recurring payments.)

4.  You can avoid third-party subscriptions services and automatic recurring payments by joining on a two-year non-recurring membership, directly from me.

No matter how you join, you’ll earn the adoration of a grateful nation and world.

👉 Third and most exciting, there is the ongoing Complete Tom the Dancing Bug book program. Every single Tom the Dancing Bug comic EVER, lusciously published by Clover Press in multiple volumes, each covering a four or five year period of the strip’s 33(!) year history.

The books are sold at online retailers and whatever brick-and-mortar retailers are still around, but you can also buy them directly from me, right here! There are various options for buying them signed, personalized, with a hand-drawn illustration, with additional swag, etc. FUN!

👉 Fourth, I guess, is following me on social media. You can follow @RubenBolling on Threads, Bluesky,  Mastodon, Spoutible, and/or Post. And Facebook and Instagram. Aside from posting comics, I’ve recently been spending the most time on Threads and Bluesky.

However you choose to read, subscribe, join, buy or follow, I thank you for joining me on my Tom the Dancing Bug journey!

Yours in Comics,

Ruben