Tom the Dancing Bug, the weekly comic strip by Ruben Bolling, won the 2008 Best Cartoon Award from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) at the 13th annual AltWeekly Awards luncheon in Philadelphia on June 7.
This is Tom the Dancing Bug’s fourth win of the AAN Best Cartoon Award (it also won in 2002, 2003 and 2007). Tom the Dancing Bug is the only comic to have won the award more than once, and it is the only comic to have been a finalist in every year the award has been given, starting in 2001.