Month: November 2024

Yes, Black Friday lasts almost two weeks in Tom the Dancing Bugland.

For a limited time, from now until December 9 (or when I pull the plug), you can purchase all six of the published books in The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug collection, personalized (if requested) and signed by me, Ruben Bolling, for the low, low price of $179.99. (Cheap.)

You’ll get:

• On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug, Volume 3, collecting all comics from 1999-2002
• Tom the Dancing Bug: All-Mighty Comics, Volume 4, collecting all comics from 2003-2006
• Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor, Volume 5, collecting all comics from 2007-2011
• Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens, Volume 6, collecting all comics from 2012-2015
• Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse, Volume 7, collecting all comics from 2016-2019
• “It’s the Great Storm, Tom the Dancing Bug!” Volume 8, collecting all comics from 2020-2023

(Volumes 1 and 2 have not been published yet.)

And you never know, once I’ve got a pen in my hand signing your books, I just might doodle a thumbnail character drawing next to each signature.

You’ll also get two (2) handsome stickers: one for On the Trail, and one for It’s the Great Storm. You will also receive by email three (3) special, exclusive, “Artist” Edition pdfs.

The perfect stocking-stuffer, assuming you have a stocking large enough into which to stuff six beautiful, pristinely printed trade paperbacks (8 x 9 inches), two stickers, and three virtual pdfs.

Because of the holiday crunch, all orders are guaranteed to be sent out by USPS media mail within seven days of the date of purchase. $15 s/h charge added. (Apologies to valued non-U.S. readers, but this offer is only good for deliveries within the U.S.)

Yes, you and your loved ones can bask in the warm glow of Tom the Dancing Bug this holiday season!

To buy the Tom the Dancing Bug Holiday Six-Pak, enter the name you’d like the books signed to (if any), and click Buy Now:

$179.99, plus $15 s/h

UPDATE 12/10/24: This deal has expired, but of course you can still buy the books individually, or in pairs, or even in a six-pack — signed, personalized (if requested), swagged, and WITH a hand-drawn illustration in one of them — here.

BUT, WAIT! HERE’S ANOTHER OFFER!

THE “HOLIDAY GRATEFUL EIGHT-PAK”: You get the full Holiday Six-Pak offer, but also get (of course also personalized, if requested, and signed) the two out-of-print books adjunct to the Complete collection:

• The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader, compiling every single ding-dong Super-Fun-Pak Comix from 1997-2019
• Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones, compiling the scientifically determined very best Tom the Dancing Bug comics from 1990-2021

for the low, low price of $249.99 (plus $18 s/h). (Cheap.)

To buy the Tom the Dancing Bug Holiday Grateful Eight-Pak, enter the name you’d like the books signed to (if any), and click Buy Now::

$249.99, plus $18 s/h

UPDATE 12/20/24: This deal has expired too, but you can still buy all eight books — signed, personalized (if requested), swagged, and WITH a hand-drawn illustration in one of them — here. (scroll down)

Gratuitous spine glamor shot from my own personal collection:

This holiday season, you can give that special someone(s) a 2025 Gift Membership(s) to Tom the Dancing Bug’s INNER HIVE.

That’s right, you can give a loved one / friend / frenemy a membership to the INNER HIVE, and from the moment you sign them up (e.g., today?) and throughout 2025 they will receive the weekly INNER HIVE emails containing:

👉 that week’s Tom the Dancing Bug comic, at least a day before it’s published anywhere online; and

👉 exclusive commentary, extra comics, contests, giveaways, word-find puzzles, and advice for the lovelorn, juicy gossip, jokes and palindromes, etc.

👉 and all other benefits and privileges of membership conferred.

$59.99.  Simply sign up here, by entering the recipient’s name and the email address the INNER HIVE mailings should be sent to. Then click the “Buy Now” button.

Name of RECIPIENT

Email address of RECIPIENT

It is for you to inform the recipient of the gift.  The recipient will simply receive the next INNER HIVE email after you sign them up.  I do provide you with a spiffy and festive graphic announcing the gift that you can use.

*You can also use the above form to RENEW an existing gift membership.*

Alternatively, $77.00 annual and $7 monthly gift subscriptions through Substack can be purchased here. These annual subscriptions last for exactly one year from the time of sign-up, and recipients will receive the weekly Inner Hive emails, but also weekly Tom the Dancing Bug Review emails. (Note: the page calls it a “The Tom the Dancing Bug Review Subscription,” but because it is paid, it is also an Inner Hive subscription.)

Update 11/17: You can now give a gift membership of any number of months, up to a year, with multiple choices of tiers, on Patreon, here.

UPDATE 11/17: You can now give a gift membership of any amount of months up to a year on Patreon.

-Terms and Conditions apply. They always do.

-The $59.99 Gift Membership offer here is for an Inner Hive membership through MailChimp from time of sign-up through 12/31/25.  Payment is for starting the membership.  Recipient may cancel at any time (there’s no accounting for taste). These $59.99 Gift Memberships DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY RENEW; they will terminate on 12/31/25 without any action on your or the recipient’s part.

More info on the INNER HIVE is here.

IT’S THE GIFT THAT KEEPS GIVING, EVERY DING-DONG WEEK, UNTIL IT STOPS.

Thank you, and have a Merry/Happy Everything.

Rb

For any questions, you can contact me at tomdbug at gmail dot com