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GWEEK PODCAST 014

Great fun doing another Gweek podcast with fellow Boing Boingers Mark Frauenfelder and Rob Beschizza.

 

Listen, as we Pontificate on:

 

- The Startling Origin of Fake Vomit!

- My "Big Reveal" About a New Horror Novel!

- How to Use a Feather to See Through Clothes!

- Kirby-Squiggles!

- I Bravely Defend 1960s Peanuts From 1980s Peanuts!

- Space Pirates and Zombies!

- More!  Everyone Likes MORE!

 

 

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Michelle Bachmann knows that God-Man Sends Messages In Mysterious Ways

Michelle Bachmann made a comment yestereday, divining God's message in the recent earthquake and hurricane to be a warning that politicians become more conservative.

 

I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, "Are you going to start listening to me here?" 

 

I think she know exactly how God-Man likes to send his messages.  Here is a Tom the Dancing Bug from 2005.

 

(By the way, on the day after Jack Kirby's birthday, note the Kirby-squiggles on God-Man in the title panel!)

 

 

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THIS WEEK'S COMIC: SUPER-FUN-PAK

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TOM THE DANCING BUG: YOUR 2011 HARVEY AWARD LOSER

Tom the Dancing Bug was nominated for, but lost, the Harvey Award for Best Comic Strip or Panel.  The winner, announced Saturday night at the Baltimore Comic Con, was some strip called "Doonesbury" (I'm guessing it's the name of a cat?), by a guy named Trudeau (sp?).

 

I blame all of you.

THIS (LAST) WEEK'S COMIC

A bit late posting this to the blog, but here is this week's Tom the Dancing Bug, THE WORLD YOU'RE ON has Corporations!

 

"CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE, MY FRIEND."

A Tom the Dancing Bug, from last year, that Mitt Romney would like.

 

 

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A Tribe of One

A Charley comic from 2008, right after The Fall.

 

AUGUST SURPRISE!

Well, some shocking revelations have come to light regarding my esteemed competition for the Harvey Award (Best Comic Strip or Panel).  Among the many things that dismay me about these allegations is the fact that it would be impossible to disprove them before the close of voting, midnight tonight.

 

But I'm sure you will agree that these new developments leave you with no choice but to vote for Tom the Dancing Bug.

 

- Sources reveal that Patrick McDonnell (Mutts) does not write and draw the strip himself, but rather forces chimpanzees, genetically altered for super-intelligence, to create the comic strips, thus not only compromising the integrity of the art of comics, and raising some troubling animal rights issues, but also perhaps eventually causing the fall of human dominance of Earth.
 
- Richard Thompson apparently ordered goons to break into my home to gather damaging information about me.  The evidence:  they sloppily left Cul de Sac books strewn all around my living room.   When these allegations were raised, my own children responded that it was they who left the books around, which they claim to greatly enjoy reading and re-reading.  Really, Mr. Thompson?  You got to my own children?  May i remind you how often it's not the crime, it's the cover-up?!
 
- Senior Non Sequitur officials state that Wiley Miller is actually a licensed attorney!  Have you no shame, Mr. Miller?
 
- I myself can confirm that Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury) never actually served in Vietnam!  HIs comic strips about B.D. engaged in combat operations during that time period were merely the work of SATIRICAL FICTION!

 

To vote for tom the Dancing Bug, apparently the only moral choice left, simply follow the instructions below.  Voting is open to comics professionals, AND THE DEADLINE IS MIDNIGHT TONIGHT!

 

1.  Go to the Harvey Award Site;

 

2.  Fill out the Harvey Ballot; and

 

3.  Email it to [email protected]

 

I thank you for following your conscience.

 

-Ruben Bolling

 

 

GOD-MAN, IN "TO CATCH A THIEF"

 

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Attention Comics Professionals:

I know it's a long shot, but IF you wanted to vote for Tom the Dancing Bug, nominated for a Harvey Award for Best Comic Strip or Panel, all you would have to do would be to:

 

1.  Go to the Harvey Award Site;

 

2.  Fill out the Harvey Ballot; and

 

3.  Email it to [email protected]

 

It would be that easy.

 

Thank you, and remember that I love you unconditionally.

 

-Ruben Bolling