The Official and Very Professional Video of the Tom the Dancing Bug books.
Watch only if you are prepared to be thrilled, amazed, moved, and curiously motivated to buy books.
๐ You can order Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse from Clover Press here.
๐๐ AND you can order the Super Fun Tom the Dancing Bug Book Package (both books!) directly from me.๐
You get:
โ๏ธ a copy of Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse, signed / sketched / dated* by Ruben Bolling, personalized if requested
โ๏ธ a copy of The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader, signed / sketched / dated* by Ruben Bolling, personalized if requested
โ๏ธ two signed Tom the Dancing Bug / Super-Fun-Pak Comix bookmarks
โ๏ธ ๐an EXCLUSIVE pdf booklet of "artist's materials," presenting notes, scripts, sketches, pencils and inks for selected comics from both books.
Books are available for purchase and shipment NOW!
$89.99, cheap.
Order below. 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.
Continental U.S. only please. Includes Media Mail postage.
For deliveries to other locations, please contact teamdancingbug at gmail dot com
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I've got to say one of ny biggest disappointments is that because of the pandemic, the books will not be sold in brick-and-mortar bookstores (only online), so the amazing back cover of Into the Trumpverse will never come under the gaze of perusing shoppers. I'm about as proud of what these folks said about my comic strip as anything I've done.
Here is an image of that back cover, and I'm so grateful to all who contributed blurbs.
"Ruben Bolling's craft and commentary are as powerful and as pointed, as capable of making you laugh while breaking your heart as they were when we were all so very young."
from Neil Gaiman's foreword to Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse
"God bless Tom the Dancing Bug! Funny, succinct, and highly original, Ruben Bolling is able to make sense from the chaos and tragedy of America's political nightmares and make you laugh while doing it. An increasingly rare and more difficult feat these extra bleak days. This is worth your time and money. Do it!"
-David Cross
"Behold the wondrous, whimsical, witty world that is Tom the Dancing Bug! If you're someone who's not a fan of potent political humor with an incisive absurdist twist that's not only consistently funny, but downright therapeutic for an ailing world, I suggest you avoid this book like the plague. For everyone else, it's a MUST-READ!"
-Mark Hamill
"Delve into the dementia, the dread, and the delightfulness of this collection of Tom the Dancing Bug's strips -- it's history through the lens of a self-loathing insomniac. In a way, it's all of us."
-Patton Oswalt
"Ruben Bolling has been sending me his secret messages for years, in the form of comics printed first on paper, and then, once paper became extinct, on the internet. I don't know exactly what he's trying to tell me, except he seems to know about everything I find funny, delightful, strange and inexplicable to get my attention, from obscure literary references to negging deep dish pizza. I don't understand exactly what exactly he's trying to say to me, but I still obsessively keep reading, not just because he's hilarious, but because someday I hope to find out who this Tom the bug is, and why he is dancing."
-Peter Sagal
"This fine collection of work by Mr. Bolling provides ample evidence as to why he is unanimously considered one of the greatest cartoonists in the known universe. How he would rank in that other part of the universe is, of course, a matter thatโs still being hotly debated within the scientific community.โ
-โWeird Alโ Yankovic
"I am a HUGE fan of Tom the Dancing Bug! It makes me laugh and think of course but it makes me feel better. No kidding, I read it and I think, someone else thinks like me, only funnier and better informed and I feel good. Thank you Ruben Bolling for giving us Tom The Dancing Bug. (Can't decide whether to capitalize โtheโ)."
-Gary Gulman
"That fact that Tom the bug can keep dancing in this day and age is a testament to Ruben Bollingโs skills as a cartoonist!"
-Seth Meyers
โEach week Ruben Bolling takes an unassuming little blank white rectangle and fills it up with clever cartoonery, sneaky commentary, and more political laughs than you can shake a stick at. All hail Tom the Dancing Bug!โ
-Matt Groening
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*Yes, I will date your book. But I will be a perfect gentleman.