Tom the Dancing Bug
Tom the Dancing Bug is a weekly satirical comic strip by cartoonist and political commentator Ruben Bolling that covers mostly US current events from a liberal point of view. The strip appears in mainstream and alternative weekly newspapers, as well as on the Boing Boing website. Tom the Dancing Bug won the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Awards for Best Cartoon. In 2011, the strip was awarded the Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartooning by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Recurring characters and segments
Tom The Dancing Bug has no real narrative continuity. The title itself is a dadaist non-sequitur, as there is no character called "Tom The Dancing Bug" ever seen or referred to in the strip.
Some individual strips are one-shot "stand-alone" presentations, but certain recurring features within the strip are seen regularly on a rotating basis. One of the most popular recurring segments, "Super-Fun-Pak Comix", appears roughly once every month or two, and is dealt with in a separate entry, below. Other features currently seen on a fairly frequent basis include:
Podcasts:
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by Boize
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by Carpenter Mary-Chapin
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by Magnetic Man
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by Pig Destroyer
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by Mark Knopfler
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by Dire Straits
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by Mary Chapin Carpenter
The Bug
by: BoizeWhere are you annoying little bugger?
Oh I'm gonna find you!
Get over here!
Aha! There you are! Hehe.
Shit.
You're on a roll, you're on a streak, another day, another week
You've set your goal on letting dreams beat-up reality
The word is out and on the streets, the world keeps coming after me
I lose my touch and feed my fears “Crazy meals upstairs they creep”
This bug in me is strange, it craves, it hates and irritates.
It does the job, you see it waits, mates, then manipulates
Cold friend of mine king-sized galore, chews at my head, gets to my soul!
Won't let me go, God let me be, once more with you I plead
Unleash me, set me free
Let things go for rides defying security.
Unleash me, let me be
To where I go my buzzing friend I can't foresee
Let go!
Another night, another fight, your head-locked squeezed between a vice
You know it's wrong but feels so right, let go and let me remind you
When on your own and on your knees, another night, another feat
You meant you'd go by letting love reach out and set you free
This bug in me is strange, it craves, it hates and irritates.
It does the job, you see it waits, mates, then manipulates
Cold friend of mine king-sized galore, chews at my head, gets to my soul!
Just let me go, God let me be, once more with you I plead
Well, well I'll be damned!
That's right it's me, the bug in you who just loves to chew the brains
Right out of your head.
I know how you are and know exactly what you do to make you crawl into that
Dark, deep, depressive mode and then crush you like a grape, just the way I
Like it.
Watch me, watch out.
Unleash me, set me free
Let things go for rides defying security.
Unleash me, let me be
To where I go my buzzing friend I can't foresee
Unleash me
Well here we go again. I'm on the groove and I'm chiseling my way.
Not a minute too soon, through your heart and soul, where there's a big
Black hole which happens to be the trademark of my love.
And if you dare try to fix it or decide to resolutely repaint it and
Embellish it's illicit content, I'll trap rally-up and make sure I mess it
All up for ya'.
Unleash me
Gotcha!
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