
Following up on yesterday’s Kate Beaton cartoons, let’s jump over to another favorite of mine who’s been following a similarly eclectic path. Ruben Bolling’s “Tom the Dancing Bug” was often lumped in with Tom Tomorrow’s strip when they both burst onto the alternative-weekly comics scene twenty years ago, but Bolling’s comics are less overtly political, frequently more clever, and always much weirder. Like Beaton, he rotates through a variety of semi-regular features, from the personal to the topical to the post-modern.
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So many great things to love about Tom The Dancing Bug.
I agree, I much prefer Tom the Dancing Bug to Tom Tomorrow, there's a much broader range of topics and a richer imagination at work.
On the political end of things, the 'Lucky Ducky' series is especially great.
I love Lucky Duck! I could have done a whole showcase of those.
For those who haven't seen, Ruben Bolling himself was cool enough to tweet and blog about this entry, and then he posted a correction, showing the REAL first
Percival Dunwoody.
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