Hey, Tom the Dancing Bug just won the Berryman Award from the National Press Foundation!
I'll be traveling to Washington, DC on February 9 to accept the award at a gala dinner. I hope there are tacos!
I'm really honored, and I know I'm repeating myself, but I don't care: Anytime I'm given any honor I only want it to reflect on the people and entities who partner with and support me and Tom the Dancing Bug:
- My web clients, BoingBoing.net, DailyKos.com, and GoComics.com, who have always shown great faith in the comic strip, and have brought it their great and incredibly enthusiastic audiences;
- Andrews McMeel Syndication, who has been a valued partner and great friend for almost 25 (!) years, and all of Tom the Dancing Bug valued print clients; and
- The Inner Hive, the team that every single week makes the very existence of Tom the Dancing Bug possible, and much more fun.
Anyway, my thanks to the National Press Foundation. I'm grateful to the judges for finding something worthy in my comics, and for finding that cartooning in general is worthy, apparently a view that is not universally shared among judges of cartooning awards.
So I appreciate the recognition, but I want to give a shout-out to my colleagues in the U.S. and all over the world, doing some of the most groundbreaking, innovative, brave cartooning in the history of the medium, in increasingly dark and difficult times! I'm proud to be with you!
One of the comics in the package cited by the Berryman judges:
(From January, 2021)
Oh, and new Tom the Dancing Bug books are coming out!