The advantage of political cartooning over gag cartooning is that you don’t have to make things up. “Tom the Dancing Bug” only needs to put the news in a funny setting to turn it into humor. In this case, Ruben Bolling simply has the justices speak as if they were perfectly frank about what they’re […]
Among the things we might consider to save tax money, how about cutting off these bloodsuckers? Tom the Dancing Bug on the scam artists and thieves who recruit the underemployed to apply for Pell Grants and student loans, and to use up their GI Bill funding on their behalf, pressuring people to sign up who […]
Bug is a relatively new (the archives go back to October, 2009) webstrip that is suddenly generating a lot of buzz. It’s simple and anarchic and thoughtful, which seems to be a trend in strips that generate buzz.I came across it on a list of new strips being considered for some kind of Lucite plaque, […]
In this week’s Tom the Dancing Bug, Ruben Bolling brings the Wikileaks case into focus: Although the Nixon White House attempted to keep the New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers, the Supreme Court ruled against them. And, as he notes, there is a long established tradition that the free press is permitted to […]