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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling

@rubenbolling.bsky.social

Cartoonist, Writer. Two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Herblock Prize, RFK Journalism Award, Berryman Award, NCS Awards, Top 76 Theme Park Influencer, Olympic Hopeful

20,136 Followers  |  450 Following  |  2,506 Posts  |  Joined: 10.05.2023  |  2.0046

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Tom the Dancing Bug: You'll be shocked by the True, Top-Secret Story of Trump and Epstein Island β€” Coming soon! Volumes 1 and 2 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug! Sign up now to be informed when the Kickstarter launches later this summer! Volumes 3-8 of…

πŸ”΄ Brand new Tom the Dancing Bug comic now up on @boingboing.net
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YOU'LL BE SHOCKED BY THE TRUE, TOP-SECRET STORY OF TRUMP AND EPSTEIN ISLAND!
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06.08.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Inner Hive – What is the Inner Hive? Β It’s a subscription service. It’s a secret society. It’s a ragtag group of ne’er-do-wells with ideas that are so crazy, they just might…

Savvy members of the Inner Hive got TOMORROW’s Tom the Dancing Bug comic TODAY, and so already know the TOP-SECRET story of Epstein Island!
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You can too! πŸ‘πŸ₯«2️⃣
bit.ly/theInnerHive

05.08.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time From the author of Madame Restell andΒ Get Well Soon, a biography of Mamie Fish that explores how women used parties and social gatherings to gain power and ...

To paraphrase one of the greats LISTEN UP, A FIVE IS TALKING ABOUT A TEN

The NEW HISTORY BOOK from @jenashleywright.bsky.social is ON SALE NOW TODAY! It’s a biography of MAMIE FISH (YES, the one from THE GILDED AGE) and her HUGE INSANE PARTIES

BUY IT *NOW* www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jenni...

05.08.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The dumbest, barely intelligible racist you ever were puzzled to overhear is not only President, he is breaking laws to radically reshape America.

05.08.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 916    πŸ” 196    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 11

youtu.be/GTJ3LIA5LmA?...

04.08.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 221    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 5

Mark @evanier.bsky.social points out that in this cover illustration, Toth's drawing of Superman's head had been cut out and replaced by a Curt Swan drawing. It's very obvious.

Curt Swan is my favorite Superman artist, but come on. I hope on the printed book, this is corrected.

04.08.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm told Tom the Dancing Bug t-shirts are on sale for $13 today.
tomthedancingbug.threadless.com

04.08.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Inner Hive member Brien Marshall sent me this 1974 Peanuts comic, for some reason. #Qnuts

04.08.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fantastic! And proper credit to the great Nat Hiken!

04.08.2025 01:49 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CBS's Saturday cartoons Trump-friendly and merger-facilitating

πŸ“£ It's the Tom the Dancing Bug Review!
And it's free, you moochers!
πŸ“Ί Colbert and the Late Nite Losers
🐻 Medicare Bears
πŸ€ The Greenwich Globetrotters
🍧 ICE Babies
🏫 Pre-Complying Pre-K
AND MORE!
open.substack.com/pub/tomtheda...

01.08.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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(posted again to correct ridiculous typo)

01.08.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The path to solving hunger, disease, and poverty is weekly, multi-panel comic strips of political and social satire. (Give me $$$)

01.08.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Can Trump actually lie, and get government agencies to lie, about unemployment and even inflation numbers?

OF COURSE HE CAN! His followers will believe him even as they lose their jobs and pay $18 for ground beef. To them, he’s more real than reality.

01.08.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

that would have been a good idea to have the show be The Washington General, who face the buffoonish globetrotters

01.08.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tom the Dancing Bug Trump-Friendly and Merger-Facilitating Fun for Kids!

Trump-Friendly and Merger-Facilitating Fun for Kids! β€” Friday's comic by @rubenbolling.bsky.social‬

01.08.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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CBS's Saturday cartoons Trump-friendly and merger-facilitating

πŸ“£ It's the Tom the Dancing Bug Review!
And it's free, you moochers!
πŸ“Ί Colbert and the Late Nite Losers
🐻 Medicare Bears
πŸ€ The Greenwich Globetrotters
🍧 ICE Babies
🏫 Pre-Complying Pre-K
AND MORE!
open.substack.com/pub/tomtheda...

01.08.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

This guy just nails it every time.

31.07.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”΅ This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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πŸ“Ί CBS's new Trump-friendly, merger-facilitating Saturday morning cartoon lineup
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Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including longtime member Grant W and new member Andrew E (bit.ly/theInnerHive)
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READ IT RIGHT HEREπŸ‘‡

31.07.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

Yes.. It's controversial, and I wondered what the industry people were thinking about my take.

31.07.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for July 31, 2025 | GoComics Read Tom the Dancing Bugβ€”a comic strip by creator Ruben Bollingβ€”for today, July 31, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!

✴️ This week's Klæssik Tom the Dancing Bug
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πŸ”Ž The Donald Trump Mysteries (2016)
When candidate Trump, in an interview with @jaketapper.bsky.social, refused to disavow the support of David Duke, white supremacists, and the KKK, claiming to know nothing about them.
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31.07.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

In the middle of a lake in middle of nowhere, I’m pontificating about comic books, and industry big shots are listening. 3/2

30.07.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Swimming back to beach, I was stopped by a woman with her young daughter. She overheard our conversation and asked if I was in the comic book industry. I said who I was, she knew me, and she said she and her husband (nearby) are [redacted: hugely important people in the comic book industry]. 2/2

30.07.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Swimming in a lake in Western Massachusetts, I had reason to tell my daughters about the β€œMarvel Method” of dividing the labor of the comic book writer and artist, an β€œinnovation” that led to the biggest creative outburst in comics history. 1/2

30.07.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Watch live as Australian braves wild dogs and desert winds in 4-year global trek Follow Alexander Campbell's daily encounters with wild dogs, border guards, and extreme weather as he walks across continents. Now in Azerbaijan.

I wrote on @boingboing.net about Alexander Campbell, an Australian man recording his four-year walk around the world with updates on Instagram.
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30.07.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Read the first frame and laughed. Then the words, "Gee, Kenn-ny" rolled through in a whole new and freshly vacuous tone.

Filmed in stop-forward-motion, I presume?

30.07.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tom the Dancing Bug: CBS's new Trump-friendly Saturday morning line-up β€” Coming soon! Volumes 1 and 2 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug! Sign up now to be informed when the Kickstarter launches later this summer! Volumes 3-8 of…

πŸ”΄ Brand new comic now up on @boingboing.net
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CBS's NEW SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON LINE-UP!
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boingboing.net/2025/07/30/t...

30.07.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Who are they???? Don't you know

29.07.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly

29.07.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Which of these steps is not a certainty?
1. Trump runs for a 3rd term
2. If Trump loses, he claims voting fraud
3. VP does what he was selected for: refuses to certify the election

The only uncertainties are his health, and the Const. legal maneuvering (but don’t kid yourself- Trump can circumvent)

29.07.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

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