I’m amazed to announce that the entire run of Tom the Dancing Bug is now contained in eight beautifully published volumes (Clover Press), all in print and ready to find their forever homes.
The final two volumes to be published, paradoxically, are Volumes 1 and 2, compiling the earliest Tom the Dancing Bug adventures, from 1990-1994 and 1995-1998, respectively. The publication of these two volumes have completed the full eight-volume set.
These two volumes are finally now for sale at the Tom the Dancing Bug Store, signed by Ruben Bolling. And you can also purchase them in packages with the other volumes, signed and/or sketched in by Ruben Bolling.
Also brand new is the new comic book Trump You!, which curates the most infamous Trumpcentric Tom the Dancing Bugs of 2024-2025. This is also for sale, signed by Ruben Bolling, at the Tom the Dancing Bug Store, here.
About The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug Library
- Volume 1, Tom the Dancing Bug: Secret Origins (1990-1994), published July 2026
- Volume 2, Sex, Tom the Dancing Bug, & Rock ‘n’ Roll (1995-1998), published July 2026
- Volume 3, On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug (1999-2002), published June 2023
- Volume 4, Tom the Dancing Bug: All-Mighty Comics (2003-2006), published October 2022.
- Volume 5, Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor (2007-2011), published June 2022.
- Volume 6, Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens (2012-2015), published December 2021.
- Volume 7, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse (2016-2019), published August 2020.
- Volume 8, “It’s the Great Storm, Tom the Dancing Bug!” (2020-2023), published July 2024
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Praise for the Tom the Dancing Bug books:
“God bless Tom the Dancing Bug! Funny, succinct, and highly original, Ruben Bolling is able to make sense from the chaos and tragedy of America’s political nightmares and make you laugh while doing it. An increasingly rare and more difficult feat these extra bleak days. This is worth your time and money. Do it!”
-David Cross
“Behold the wondrous, whimsical, witty world that is Tom the Dancing Bug! If you’re someone who’s not a fan of potent political humor with an incisive absurdist twist that’s not only consistently funny, but downright therapeutic for an ailing world, I suggest you avoid this book like the plague. For everyone else, it’s a MUST-READ!”
-Mark Hamill
“Delve into the dementia, the dread, and the delightfulness of this collection of Tom the Dancing Bug’s strips — it’s history through the lens of a self-loathing insomniac. In a way, it’s all of us.”
-Patton Oswalt
“Ruben Bolling has been sending me his secret messages for years, in the form of comics printed first on paper, and then, once paper became extinct, on the internet. I don’t know exactly what he’s trying to tell me, except he seems to know about everything I find funny, delightful, strange and inexplicable to get my attention, from obscure literary references to negging deep dish pizza. I don’t understand exactly what exactly he’s trying to say to me, but I still obsessively keep reading, not just because he’s hilarious, but because someday I hope to find out who this Tom the bug is, and why he is dancing.”
-Peter Sagal
“This fine collection of work by Mr. Bolling provides ample evidence as to why he is unanimously considered one of the greatest cartoonists in the known universe. How he would rank in that other part of the universe is, of course, a matter that’s still being hotly debated within the scientific community.”
-“Weird Al” Yankovic
“I am a HUGE fan of Tom the Dancing Bug! It makes me laugh and think of course but it makes me feel better. No kidding, I read it and I think, someone else thinks like me, only funnier and better informed and I feel good. Thank you Ruben Bolling for giving us Tom The Dancing Bug. (Can’t decide whether to capitalize ‘the’).”
-Gary Gulman
“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!”
-Seth Meyers
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Link to the Tom the Dancing Bug Store
