Author: Ruben Bolling

In honor of today, Lucky Ducky Day, we present the very first Lucky Ducky episode.

Lucky Ducky originally came to life in response to a Wall Street Journal editorial arguing that people who are too poor to pay taxes are "lucky duckies"…

     Dear Dr. Scholl's:

     I'm sure by now you've heard about my plan to synergize our two products to the mutual benefit of ourselves, our customers/readers, and the world at large.  My proposal, revealed in a groundbreaking tweet yesterday, is that Dr. Scholl's become the sponsor of the Tom the Dancing Bug comic strip website.

     But since I haven't heard from you yet (I'm going to chalk it up to the ol' summertime slow-down), I thought it might be wise to spell out the great similarities between what we do:

     Dr. Scholl's and Tom the Dancing Bug both provide comfort and relief, in a way that's always light-hearted, fun, and above all, customized for each foot's unique pressure points and arch type.

     Okay, the analogy breaks down a bit if you push it too hard.  But the fact remains that as long as we are divided, we will not fully achieve our respective goals of making the world a better place through foot health/comfort, in your case, and satire/humor in the form of moderately well-drawn comic strips, in mine.

     I look forward to hearing from you, and finally uniting to achieve greater success.

     Sincerely,

     Ruben Bolling, "Tom the Dancing Bug"

It's undergoing some changes.

Totally Rad, Louis!

I just announced on twitter that I recently had a startling epiphany — a revelation, if you will.  I saw, as a vision, this website sponsored by Dr. Scholl's.  And now it is up to me, with the help of you, Team Dancing Bug, to make it so.

What happens next is anyone's guess.  We will all learn things about ourselves that my amaze or even horrify us.  But in the end, we will come out the better for it, not just for the destination — Dr. Scholl's sponsoring the Tom the Dancing Bug website — but for the journey.

I must make it so.

The New York Times reports that efforts to regulate the marketing of unhealthy foods to children have inexplicably stalled.  When I did this comic three years ago, Kellogg's had promised to voluntarily curtail the marketing of sugary cereals to children, but somehow that never happened.  Maybe Martin Amis wanted too much scratch.

Team Dancing Bug:

Your mission, and you shall accept it, is to get me more twitter followers.  It's become apparent that my wit alone is insufficient to gain enough followers, so I must rely on the guile, persuasion and brute force of my formidable Team.

I just need to get to 500k followers by noon tomorrow, so that I can get my mortgage (long story).

Go forth!

Love,

RB

Tweets by RubenBolling

Wow, when I saw this supposedly serious article:

I-Dosing: How teenagers are getting 'digitally high' from music they download from internet

I was amazed at how closely resembles this comic:

Love this comment from a reader when the question came up as to why this sports-related comic was on Boing Boing

This Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon is on Boing-Boing for the following reasons:
1. LeBron is wearing a hand-tooled steam punk belt buckle/USB thumb-drive. And the thumb-drive is shaped like a Hello Kitty skull and contains a cc-licensed ePub copy of "For the Win".
2. The CSI autopsy was immediately followed by a unicorn chaser.
3. The CSI woman's car pays tolls via an RFID chip that surreptitiously broadcasts her Facebook relationship status ("It's Complicated").
4. The couple in the final scene is listening to a CD of popular songs played on cigar-box guitars.
Duh.