Tom the Dancing Bug: The Beloved Surrealist Comic Strip Gets a New Book Collection

Ruben Bolling's Tom the Dancing Bug is wide hailed arsenic being 1 of the astir influential and originative comic strips of the '90s and '00s, and Clover Press is engaged reprinting that bid successful a caller batch of collected editions. Next up is simply a two-volume acceptable collecting the series' tally from 1990 to 1998.

With Clover Press' latest Tom the Dancing Bug crowdfunding run present live, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of the publication and the accompanying lithograph creation print. Check them retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Tom the Dancing Bug started retired arsenic a surrealist alternate to accepted paper comic strips. The bid progressively took connected a much governmental humor-focused approach, archetypal successful the aftermath of 9/11 and past arsenic a effect to the predetermination of Donald Trump. The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug postulation aims to reprint 35 years' worthy of strips successful 1 broad set.

“With the announcement of these 2 volumes, The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug programme volition soon basal arsenic a afloat eight-volume chronicle of 35 years of comics – my life’s work,” said Bolling successful a statement. “I’m grateful to Clover Press for its committedness to the project. The prime of the books has been extraordinary, and I’m honored to person this implicit acceptable successful print. These 2 volumes volition papers this strip’s earliest years, and successful immoderate ways, my astir audacious and ambitious work.”

The Kickstarter run for Tom the Dancing Bug is unrecorded now.

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