Author: Ruben Bolling

On this Saturday, June 6, from 1pm to 2pm, I'll be at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival doing sketches to raise money for the Museum.

I'll also bring a copy of my first book, titled simply "Tom the Dancing Bug," which I'll sell to (and sketch in for) the highest bidder during that time (bidding starts at $20).  This book is long out of print, and has become quite expensive.

So stop by, say hello, buy a sketch (I'll draw anything you want, subject to the parameters of good taste and propriety), and/or put in a bid on the book.

Hope to see you there!

MoCCA Art Fest
69th Regiment Armory
68 Lexington Avenue, between 25th and 26th Streets
June 6th and 7th, 11am-6pm
$10 per day
$15 per weekend
MoCCA Members: $10 per weekend

This week’s comic:

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.

This weekend, in New York City:  The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art's annual Art Fest.  I'll be there at a certain time (TBA), signing and sketching to raise funds for the museum.  More info posted here later.

LUCKY DUCKY

Isn't it great that taxpayers fund these new baseball stadiums, which are designed to ensure that there is no affordable seating?

August Pollack's done some research, and found this pretty funny pattern in the editorial cartoons of Mike Lester.

August writes:

In this week’s thrilling installment, Doug discovers THE ONLY WHOLLY MORAL FOOD.

David Cross in The NY Post's gossip page, for making out at a bar with his twenty-something girlfriend?  Gawker.com referencing this by calling him a name that this family blog can only translate as "often amorous"?

The current issue of Harper's Magazine (June 2009) contains a comic I did for them called "Depression Funnies."  Help make this the biggest selling issue of a magazine since Charles Darwin and Ashton appeared on the cover of O:  The Oprah Magazine.  Get out to the newsstand and pick it up!

A bonus panel, with thanks to Nate and Johnny G…