Salon has unveiled its new re-design, so you can see "Tom the Dancing Bug" in its new habitat.
This week: Louis tries to conduct yet another Great Imaginary Conversation with New York Mets third baseman David Wright.
Author: Ruben Bolling
Absolutely, Positively FINAL Offer to Bill Watterson
Mr. Watterson,
Very clever, holding out till the last minute so you can squeeze out all the goodies you can. Well played, sir. Turns out your silence was the masterstroke strategy in this little chess game of ours.
So you win, and here's the new offer for coming to my interview of Looking for Calvin and Hobbes author Nevin Martell at MoCCA Thursday evening:
– a Metrocard for transportation;
– a donut, flavor your choice;
– a large* bottle of Poland Spring water;
– a cup of coffee;
– a copy of "Landscape Painting for Fun and Profit" by Martin Pendergrass;
– a Conair Pivot Rechargeable Mustache Trimmer; and
– Forty dollars, cash money; AND…
– a copy of "The Complete 'Nancy' Comic Strips, Vol. 1, 1908-1909, "The Origins of the Lamp Post Gag";
– a large* bag of Red Vines licorice twists; and…
– I will relinquish "Tom the Dancing Bug's" title as "Best Comic Strip Ever"**, thus defaulting the title to runner-up "Calvin and Hobbes."
Act now, Bill, or I'll open this offer up to J.D. Salinger, Harper Lee, Thomas Pynchon and Todd Bridges. And believe me, one of them will take me up on it.
* large-ish
** Source: The Internets
Absolutely Final Offer to Bill Watterson
Dear Bill,
Okay, you drive a hard bargain. But if you'll agree to come to my discussion with Nevin Martell at MoCCA, Thursday evening about Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, you'll get:
– a Metrocard for transportation;
– a donut, flavor your choice;
– a large bottle of Poland Spring water… AND
– a cup of coffee (per RG on Facebook);
– a copy of "Landscape Painting for Fun and Profit" by Martin Pendergrass;
– a Conair Pivot Rechargeable Mustache Trimmer (sorry, so little is known about you!); and
– Forty dollars, cash money.
This is my last offer, so consider very carefully…
Damn, I’m proud of these guys.
Who says cartoonists never do anything constructive? I wish I were needed there.
Final Offer to Bill Watterson
Bill,
I'll be interviewing Nevin Martell, author of Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, a book about your life, career
and masterpiece comic strip, at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York City, Thursday October 22 at 7pm.
I'd love it if you could come and participate, and if you do, we'll be happy to provide you with:
– a Metrocard for transportation;
– a donut, flavor your choice; and
– a large bottle of Poland Spring water.
Whaddaya, whaddaya?
Yours,
RB
This week’s comic…
When I drew this comic last week, I hadn't seen the comic strip "Mark Trail" in years. After I submitted it, I went away for the long weekend, and saw this comic in the local newspaper:
http://www.seattlepi.com/fun/mark.asp?date=20091010
(link will expire.)
“Tom the Dancing Bug” at the Big Apple Comic Con in NYC
Just made a last-minute commitment to make an appearance at this weekend's Big Apple Comic Convention, Sunday October 18, from 11am to 1pm.
I'll be at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) booth sketching and selling Tom the Dancing Bug books to benefit the museum. This looks like a very superhero-syfy-centric convention, so please do stop by — it might get very lonely for a political-social-satirist.
The deets:
Sunday, October 18
11am to 1pm
MoCCA booth
Big Apple Comic-Con
Pier 94, 55th Street at 12th Avenue
New York City
By the way, I'll be selling mint-condition, first-edition, out-of-the-box copies of my first and second book, "Tom the Dancing Bug" and "All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned From My Golf-Playing Cats" for $20 each, signed/sketched. Check out the prices for new copies in the market.
Update: That is some weird promo copy for those books: "In the popular comic style of Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, and Roz Chast…" Roz Chast?
Logrolling in our times…
There's this guy named Ted Rall who just came out with a book I've been hearing great things about: The Year of Loving Dangerously.
And there's this other guy, goes by the name of Tom Tomorrow, who has a new children's book out that's getting quite the buzz: The Very Silly Mayor. Dave Barry and Lemony Snicket liked it a lot.
They seem like interesting fellows.
Hollingsworth Hound
After the publication of the comic of a few weeks ago, "Hollingsworth Hound in 'To Catch a Banker,'" a bunch of commenters wondered where HH's nemesis Lucky Ducky was. Some said that this was the first time Hollingsworth appeared on his own, without his fowl enemy.
Fun fact: This was actually Hollingsworth Hound's third solo adventure.
He'd taken on global warming first…
… and then, in the wake of the Elliot Spitzer scandal, prostitution. (Although Lucky Duckella does make an appearance.)
“Tom the Dancing Bug” goes blue.
In this week's episode, dirty pictures and a curse word.
You've been warned.