ON THE TRAIL OF TOM THE DANCING BUG, by Ruben Bolling The Complete Tom
the Dancing Bug, Volume 3: 1999-2002 Clover Press's Complete Tom the
Dancing Bug program strides confidently ahead with the third
chronological volume, covering every installment of the comic strip, a
two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist, from 1999-2002. This volume not only
includes the comic strip's favorite formats and characters, such as
Super-Fun-Pak Comix, God-Man, the Omnipotent Superhero, Charley the
Australopithecine, and its cover character Billy Dare, Boy Adventurer,
it also includes the strip's famed and award-winning urgent turn into
political satire following 9/11. Also in the volume is Ruben Bolling's
brief run of monthly full-page comics for The New Yorker, and a special
comic for The Village Voice on the 2000 Subway World Series. Tom the
Dancing Bug is the wildly popular, groundbreaking comic strip that Mark
Hamill called "wondrous, whimsical, and witty," and that led Seth Meyers
to recently write, "The fact that Tom the bug can keep dancing in this
day and age is a testament to Ruben Bolling's skills as a cartoonist!"