Month: November 2025

This holiday season, you can give that special someone(s) a 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 they will receive the weekly INNER HIVE emails EXCLUSIVELY 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, advice for the lovelorn, juicy celeb gossip, jokes, palindromes, puppy pics, etc.

👉 and all other benefits and privileges of membership conferred.

How can you give an Inner Hive membership as a gift? Let me count the ways:

✅ You can give a one-year gift Inner Hive membership through MailChimp / CampaignZee here.

✅ You can give a gift Inner Hive membership at various tiers for up to one year through Patreon here. You’ll get a link, which you can send to the recipient when you like.

✅ You can give a monthly or annual gift Inner Hive membership through Substack here, and you can even set a start date.

Yes, it’s the perfect stocking-stuffer! You can give a Tom the Dancing Bug Inner Hive membership, the gift the keeps on giving, every ding-dong week, from the comfort of your own cozy armchair by the fire, with the mere press of a button.

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

For a limited time, from now until December 9 (subject to my pulling the plug, at my sole discretion), you can purchase either, or both, of two sets of Tom the Dancing Bug books:

🎁 Holiday Six-Pak

Six of the published books in The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug Library, personalized (if requested) and signed by me, Ruben Bolling, for the low, low price of $199.99. (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

You’ll also get two (2) handsome stickers: one for On the Trail, and one for It’s the Great Storm.

🎁 Super Fun Two-Pak

The two companion books for The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug Library, personalized (if requested) and signed by me, Ruben Bolling, for the low, low price of $89.99. (Cheap.)

You’ll get:

• The super rare, instantly out-of-print Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader, collecting all Super-Fun-Pak Comix from its inception in 1997 through 2019
• Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones, the very best of Tom the Dancing Bug, 1990-2021

👉 About both packages

Because of the holiday crunch, all orders placed by December 2 are guaranteed to be sent out by USPS media mail ASAP, but no later than December 5. Orders received by December 9 are guaranteed to be sent out no later than USPS media mail by December 12. In my experience, USPS takes 4-8 days, but this holiday season may be unusual, so I suggest you place your order quickly. (Apologies to valued and esteemed 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:

$199.99, plus $15 s/h

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To buy the Super Fun Two-Pak, enter the name you’d like the books signed to (if any), and click Buy Now:

$89.99, plus $7 s/h

DEAL EXPIRED

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👉 Or: SKETCHED books!

And of course, you can still purchase any or all of these books not only personalized and signed, but with a hand-drawn (what other appendage would I use?) SKETCH! Link is here!