Tom the Dancing Bug
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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. Tom the Dancing Bug won the 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008,[1] and 2009[2] Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Awards for Best Cartoon. The strip was awarded the 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartooning by the Society of Professional Journalists[3] and best cartoon in the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards.[4] His work on the strip won Bolling the 2017 Herblock Prize[5][6] and the 2021 Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons,[7][8][9] and he was a finalist in the Editorial Cartooning category for the 2019[10] and 2021[11] Pulitzer Prize.
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Author(s) | Ruben Bolling |
Website | https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug |
Current status/schedule | Weekly |
Launch date | June 8, 1990; 33 years ago (June 8, 1990) (on New York Perspectives) |
Syndicate(s) | Quaternary Features (1990–1997) Universal Press Syndicate/Universal Uclick/Andrews McMeel Syndication (1997–present) |
Publisher(s) | HarperPerennial, NBM Publishing, Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Genre(s) | Humor, comedy political humor, satire, absurdist humour, postmodernist comedy |