📣 IT'S THE TOM THE DANCING BUG REVIEW, YOU LOSERS! - ✍️ Letters home from a war you didn't even know was happening ⚖️ Harvey Richards, Lawyer for Children™️ 🤖🐰 Robots vs. Bunnies ⛰️ Mr. Wisdom-Face 🐭🐭 Crazy Mice &more! - FREE! Read and subscribe (for FREE!), or get lost open.substack.com/pub/tomtheda...

To point out the obvious: if any other president claimed that his predecessor had pushed for an ally to be invaded, it would be front page news, and a domestic and international uproar. But with Grandpa Dementia, it’s just Trump being Trump.

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug! - LETTERS HOME FROM THE SECOND CIVIL WAR - Brought to you by the fightin' Inner Hive, including long-time member Austin L. and new member newmanewman ( bit.ly/theInnerHive ) - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

📣 IT'S THE TOM THE DANCING BUG REVIEW, YOU LOSERS! - ✍️ Letters home from a war you didn't even know was happening ⚖️ Harvey Richards, Lawyer for Children™️ 🤖🐰 Robots vs. Bunnies ⛰️ Mr. Wisdom-Face 🐭🐭 Crazy Mice &more! - FREE! Read and subscribe (for FREE!), or get lost open.substack.com/pub/tomtheda...

This week’s comic now up on @contrariannews.org - contrarian.substack.com/p/tom-the-da...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Honored that my books' KS got Boing-Boinged by Mark Frauenfelder! boingboing.net/2025/11/06/t... @boingboing.net

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This is actually the only thing that Trump does that I like. (Of course it leans far more into socialism/communism than anything Mamdani has ever proposed)

When there’s a medical crisis, our Health Secretary RFK Jr. leaps into action — to get the hell out of there.

Honored that my books' KS got Boing-Boinged by Mark Frauenfelder! boingboing.net/2025/11/06/t... @boingboing.net

It's a good day when you can wake up and find that @rubenbolling.bsky.social has written something about your latest podcast! boingboing.net/2025/11/06/t...

Had a great time talking with Tad on 22 panels!

Did you ever wonder what you would have done as a citizen in historical times of incredible cruelty: slavery, the holocaust, etc.? You don't have to wonder anymore! You're doing it!

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

🟠 This week's Classic Tom the Dancing Bug - HARVEY RICHARDS, LAWYER FOR CHILDREN (published 1991) - www.gocomics.com/tomthedancin...

This week's comic now up on @dailykos.com - Letters Home from The Second Civil War - www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

We spoke with creator @rubenbolling.bsky.social about the first two volumes of his beloved comic Tom the Dancing Bug, now on Kickstarter through @cloverpress.bsky.social! www.freaksugar.com/interview-ru...

🔴 Brand new comic now up on @boingboing.net - Letters Home from The Second Civil War - boingboing.net/2025/11/05/t...

My comic is now up on the In These Times comics page. Also included is the first @mattbors.bsky.social political cartoon in years. - inthesetimes.com/article/mamd... @inthesetimes.com

No shit

Members of the proud and mighty Inner Hive got TOMORROW'S Tom the Dancing Bug comic TODAY, and so already know what war we're in. - YOU CAN TOO! 🐑🥫✌️ bit.ly/theInnerHive

@rubenbolling.bsky.social just got Inner Hive and it's... wow. Bravo from Chicago.

Best piece I’ve read about OBAA yet. Links our homie Christ with Benicio del Toro’s Sensei Sergio (the ❤️ of the film) AND Ta-Nehisi Coates’ vital perspective from his interview w Ezra Klein a couple wks ago. THIS IS HOW WE DO IT!! Please read this. bsky.app/profile/sojo...

A Dick Cheney comic from 2001 DID YOU KNOW

Friends, foes, and lovers: It's far from too late to boost, amplify, write about, talk about, and/or book me regarding these two upcoming books currently in a KS campaign. They could use your help. tomdbug.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/28/w...

IN WHICH I compare my 1990s comics, and readership, with today’s.

New in PN: Virginia and New Jersey can show that Trump isn't inevitable "A powerful performance this Tuesday could help break the feverish doom loop of Democratic self-recrimination and elite capitulation which has contributed to our flatulent descent into fascist thuggery."

A.I. has ruined my favorite online pastime: baby and animal videos. Because now I doubt whether any I see are real. Thanks, A.I.

My interview with @comicbookclub.bsky.social about the TWO NEW TOM THE DANCING BUG BOOKS available only by pre-order through Kickstarter (limited time). ( tomdbug.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/28/w... ) 👇 comicbookclublive.com/2025/10/28/t...

Who says the Republicans don’t have a healthcare plan? It’s the Become a Famous Trump Supporter and Then Beg Trump for Healthcare Plan!

And PA. Those Supreme Court justices are damn important.

People of NYC, Minneapolis, VA, NJ, TX, and CA: There are people getting tear gassed protesting and thwarting ICE thugs. People devoting their careers to fighting Trump’s illegal orders in court. All you have to do is the easiest thing: VOTE, and you’ll be helping just as much.

Another worthy Kickstarter from another altweekly pal. It's blasted past its goal, but if you want a copy of the early Tom the Dancing Bug by the brilliant Ruben Bolling, jump in. Ruben was the smartest of us. A must-have for fans of great comics. @rubenbolling.bsky.social

Whatever Modelo paid for the product placement in One Battle After Another, I think they made their money back off me alone.

Yes every Halloween we wandered suburban streets from first grade on, with no parental supervision, until after 9pm, ringing strangers’ doorbells, grabbing candy, all while wearing masks that 90% blinded us.

Omg! I love Tom The Dancing Bug! Here is yet another kickstarter to join.

Otis is not a fan of Halloween. 1. He’s afeared of Halloween decorative figures at townhouses 2. He hates wearing a costume (or anything) 3. He hates it when the doorbell rings.

just boosting this. ruben’s work is so, so good and his early stuff is a delight. he sort of sprang forth fully formed, as a cartoonist.

(H/t @ecroth0813 on threads) Dr. Seuss in 1941, somehow still vitally up-to-date.

I think Hilary Clinton’s big mistake with her potentially mishandling some emails, that made it such a huge, months-long story, is that she didn’t also simultaneously do 57,362 other, worse, fully illegal, anti-American things.

FBI: "We didn't zip tie children." REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old." FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."

Happy Halloween! My comic after January 6, '21 -

Guys! The KS is going incredibly strong! Please back it to pre-order your TWO new Tom the Dancing Bug books! Let’s go! tomdbug.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/28/w...

NYC really stepped up its Halloween game this year. Kudos

🔵 This week's comic HERE! - 👀 Take a rare peek inside the writer's room that's ruining your life! - Brought to you by the proud 'n' mighty Inner Hive, including long-time member Jeannie C. and new member Richard Boyles. ( join us at bit.ly/theInnerHive ! ) - READ IT RIGHT HERE, YOU GHOULS! 👇

hey don't sleep on my buddy @rubenbolling.bsky.social 's KS. he's been doing a complete collection of his work in reverse chronological order, and these are the first two volumes. His early work was non-political and as such, a lot more timeless than mine was! www.kickstarter.com/projects/clo...

📣 IT'S THE SPOOKIEST OF ALL TOM THE DANCING BUG REVIEWS! - 🎃 Two scary books, and a horrifying comic book! 📝 A peek into the writers room that's ruining your life! 🤰 BAD FETUS! 🏫 A.I. High 🎨 How to Draw Doug 👮👮 Good Cop / Bad Cop AND MORE! - Free for all! open.substack.com/pub/tomtheda...

This week's comic now up on @contrariannews.org - contrarian.substack.com/p/tom-the-da...

I thought this was a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social post.