Author: Ruben Bolling

GIVE THE GIFT OF TOM THE DANCING BUG

Ruben Bolling

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

That's right, you can give a loved one / friend / frenemy a yearlong membership to the INNER HIVE, and from the moment you sign them up and throughout 2021 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 online; and

– exclusive commentary, extra comics, contests, giveaways, word-find puzzles, and advice for the lovelorn

and all other benefits and privileges of membership will be conferred up on them.

$29.99 CHEAP.  Simply sign up here, by entering the recipient's name and the email address the INNER HIVE mailings should be sent to:

 

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.

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

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 Everything.

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Terms and Conditions apply.  They always do.

The Gift Membership will end 12/31/21.

Payment is for starting the membership.  Recipient may cancel at any time (there's no accounting for taste).

Any questions, please contact teamdancingbug@gmail.com

 

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HEY, YOU CAN ALSO JOIN THE INNER HIVE FOR YOURSELF!

HOW?  LET ME COUNT THE WAYS:

 

⇒ You can join through Patreon, where you pay per month, and there are different levels of membership. $3/month and up

This has become the most popular way to join the Inner Hive.

SIGN UP FOR YOUR OWN INNER HIVE MEMBERSHIP THROUGH PATREON HERE.

⇒ You can join through CampaignZee / MailChimp, where you pay per six months. $11.95/six months

SIGN UP FOR YOUR OWN INNER HIVE MEMBERSHIP THROUGH CAMPAIGNZEE HERE.

⇒ Or you can pre-pay a two-year membership, no recurring payments at all. It ends when it ends. $75.00

SIGN UP FOR YOUR OWN PRE-PAID TWO-YEAR INNER HIVE MEMBERSHIP HERE.

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UPDATE 11/12/20: ⇒ You can now join through Substack, where you pay $7 per month.

SIGN UP FOR YOUR OWN INNER HIVE MEMBERSHIP THROUGH SUBSTACK HERE.

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However you sign up, members get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic at least a day before it appears anywhere on the web, along with exclusive commentary, inside peeks, info, jokes, riddles, palindromes and whatever else I can fit in each email.

Join the team that makes Tom the Dancing Bug possible every week.

 

 

 

THE EMU CLUB ADVENTURES, BOOKS ONE AND TWO, SIGNED & SKETCHED

Ruben Bolling

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SHARE THE JOY OF EMUS WITH YOUR LOVED ONES.

 

For a limited time, I'm offering copies of The EMU Club Adventures, Books 1 and 2, with a personalized signature and drawing in each.

 

"There are tons of little mysteries all around us.  Sometimes if you look really, really closely at them, you find out some amazing, incredible things.  And you might just save the world."

-Stuart Tennemeier, President of The EMU Club

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"Filled with wild twists and funny dialogue" –Publishers Weekly

"The type of non-stop action and improbably hilarious fun only a kid could dream up" –GeekDad

"The EMU Club inhabits exactly the world I always hope to live in when I was 12" -Cory Doctorow

"A pleaser for Wimpy Kid fans" –Kirkus Reviews

Featured in the 2015 ABC Best Books for Young Readers List (American Booksellers Association)

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You get both books, signed and sketched, shipping included, for $59.00.

 

Continental U.S. only for now, please.

 

INNER HIVE members: please wait for special instructions that will be included in the next (week of 11/28) INNER HIVE email.

(Click here to join the INNER HIVE.)

 

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.

 

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UPDATE 12/1: THIS OFFER IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.

THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO ORDERED.

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Of course, you can also buy both or either book in the regular way on Amazon…

BOOK ONE:  ALIEN INVASION IN MY BACKYARD

BOOK TWO: GHOSTLY THIEF OF TIME

… or you can purchase them elsewhere by clicking here, or even by going to a bookstore!

 

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COMIC – DONALD & JOHN, A BOY AND HIS IMAGINARY PUBLICIST

Ruben Bolling

The "Calvin & Hobbes" Candidate…

 

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Click here to read on Boing Boing.

Click here to read on Daily Kos.

Click here to read on gocomics. 

 

Join Tom the Dancing Bug's INNER HIVE in May, and more than the amount of your cost to sign up will be donated to help protect journalists around the world!  You get exclusive access to comics and other stuff, and journalists get to do their work exposing corruption without being put in jail.

Click here to sign up for the INNER HIVE; click here for information.

   

 

CLICK HERE FOR A LINK TO PURCHASE AN ARCHIVE QUALITY PRINT OF THIS COMIC.

(scroll down, and the link is in the column on the right)

COMIC – SUPER-FUN-PAK COMIX, feat. THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPAL, & MORE!

Ruben Bolling

SUPER-FUN-PAK COMIX

featuring

THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPAL;

BOB'S SECRETS;

CLASSIX COMIX – THE CATCHER IN THE RYE;

PERCIVAL DUNWOODY;

HOW TO DRAW DOUG;

MIDDLE-AGED-COUPLE-IN-ARMCHAIRS-MAN;

FULLEST HOUSE;

AND MUCH LESS!

 

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Click here to read on Boing Boing.

Click here to read on Daily Kos.

Click here to read on gocomics. 

   

 

CLICK HERE FOR A LINK TO PURCHASE AN ARCHIVE QUALITY PRINT OF THIS COMIC.

(scroll down, and the link is in the column on the right)

 


Click here to join the INNER HIVE to support Tom the Dancing Bug

and get every comic emailed directly to you, at least a day before it's published on the web,

AND extra, extra stuff!

 

 

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To comment, please use facebook or twitter (#tomthedancingbug @rubenbolling).

THE EMU CLUB ADVENTURES, BOOKS ONE & TWO, SIGNED & SKETCHED

Ruben Bolling

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Alien Invasion and Ghostly Thief covers spine 72

 

  UPDATE 12/5/15: THIS OFFER IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE.  THANKS TO THOSE WHO ORDERED!

 

SHARE THE JOY OF EMUS WITH YOUR LOVED ONES.

 

For a limited time, I'm offering copies of The EMU Club Adventures, Books 1 and 2, with a signature and drawing in each.

 

"There are tons of little mysteries all around us.  Sometimes if you look really, really closely at them, you find out some amazing, incredible things.  And you might just save the world."

-Stuart Tennemeier, President of The EMU Club

—

 

"Filled with wild twists and funny dialogue" –Publishers Weekly

"The type of non-stop action and improbably hilarious fun only a kid could dream up" –GeekDad

"The EMU Club inhabits exactly the world I always hope to live in when I was 12" -Cory Doctorow

"A pleaser for Wimpy Kid fans" –Kirkus Reviews

Featured in the 2015 ABC Best Books for Young Readers List (American Booksellers Association)

—

 

The two books together retail for $26.  You get both books, signed and sketched, shipping included, for $40.00.

 

Continental U.S. only for now, please. I'm hoping and expecting it will be much faster, but allow up to three weeks for delivery.

 

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.

 

UPDATE 12/5/15:  THIS OFFER IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE.

 

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Of course, you can also buy both or either book in the regular way on Amazon…

BOOK ONE:  ALIEN INVASION IN MY BACKYARD

BOOK TWO: GHOSTLY THIEF OF TIME

… or you can purchase them elsewhere by clicking here, or even by going to a bookstore!

THE EMU CLUB ADVENTURES, BOOKS ONE & TWO, SIGNED & SKETCHED

Ruben Bolling

 

 

Alien Invasion and Ghostly Thief covers spine 72

 

  UPDATE 12/5/15: THIS OFFER IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE.  THANKS TO THOSE WHO ORDERED!

 

SHARE THE JOY OF EMUS WITH YOUR LOVED ONES.

 

For a limited time, I'm offering copies of The EMU Club Adventures, Books 1 and 2, with a signature and drawing in each.

 

"There are tons of little mysteries all around us.  Sometimes if you look really, really closely at them, you find out some amazing, incredible things.  And you might just save the world."

-Stuart Tennemeier, President of The EMU Club

—

 

"Filled with wild twists and funny dialogue" –Publishers Weekly

"The type of non-stop action and improbably hilarious fun only a kid could dream up" –GeekDad

"The EMU Club inhabits exactly the world I always hope to live in when I was 12" -Cory Doctorow

"A pleaser for Wimpy Kid fans" –Kirkus Reviews

Featured in the 2015 ABC Best Books for Young Readers List (American Booksellers Association)

—

 

The two books together retail for $26.  You get both books, signed and sketched, shipping included, for $40.00.

 

Continental U.S. only for now, please. I'm hoping and expecting it will be much faster, but allow up to four weeks for delivery.

 

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.

 

UPDATE 12/5/15:  THIS OFFER IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.

 

Paypal

 

Of course, you can also buy both or either book in the regular way on Amazon…

BOOK ONE:  ALIEN INVASION IN MY BACKYARD

BOOK TWO: GHOSTLY THIEF OF TIME

… or you can purchase them elsewhere by clicking here, or even by going to a bookstore!

 

This week’s comic: Jon & Kate

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This week’s comic:

jon & kate

I think this is the only time a comic came out of a blog post; after writing this post of a few days ago, I thought there may be a comic in my take on this Jon & Kate Plus Eight thing, and wrote this up.

I think I treaded a very fine line here, and I truly hope I didn’t cross it.  I wanted the comic to humorously point out how this show, which had become very popular with children (and was marketed to them), had unexpectedly taken a dark turn.  When you’ve got a reality children’s show, reality can take it to places inappropriate for children.

But I worry that I crossed the line into making fun of this family’s actual circumstances, which of course isn’t funny at all.  I remain willfully ignorant of the specific allegations and accusations between Kate and Jon, so my extrapolations on marital and family difficulties are intended to be generic.  And I intentionally didn’t depict any specific kids, but rather just drew a brood of eight kids of roughly the correct ages.  So I hope I made choices that made my goal clear.