Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Jeff Sessions hosts Bible Stories and tells the tale of Jesus and the holy separation of mother and child.

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Donald is called in to see his boss, in another episode of the Trumps. D'Oh!

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix features Percival Dunwoody, Idiot Time Traveler from 1909, Social Justice Warrior, Superhero Epic (Part the First) and MUCH MORE!

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH an ungrateful NFL player must honor the flag for which so many have died, and so many more will continue to die.

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH our nation's leaders analyze the data on USA's gun violence

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH White House Chief of Staff John Kelly shares the successful immigration story of his own great-grandparents!

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH crusading defense attorney Rudolph Giuliani gets a new client and leaps into action to defend him from outrageous accusations!

"Doesn't look like anything to me."

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Donald and John discover an new imaginary friend to have adorable adventures with.

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH brilliant legal mind Michael Cohen advertises his services: Got Sex Secrets? Get Cohen on the Phone!

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the NRA applies its level-headed, reasonable slippery-slope arguments to all regulations and reforms.

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the Smythes of Chagrin Falls, USA, have a bad feeling about the digital assistant in their home.

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix features The Adventures of Actually-Man, Beltway Banalities, Dr. Science-Head, and significantly MORE!

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH we take a peek at Gavin Smythe's very typical Facebook page.

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump get into some hot XXX-rated legal action!

Who is Lord Birthday?

He’s a brilliant cartoonist who has a new book that just came out, How to Appear Normal at Social Events.

But it’s more complicated than that.

His cartoons started on an Instagram account in 2015, and as their popularity grew to become a sensation, drawing a following that’s now up to 184k, his real identity remained a closely guarded secret. No one knew who Lord Birthday was except he and his wife.

The cartoons themselves reflected this mystery. They are hilarious and fascinating, but cryptic and absurd, with a cartooning style that is reminiscent of outsider art. They seem weird and oddly authentic, and you could imagine their creator as someone living on society’s fringes.

Then in 2017, with a book deal done and publication looming, Lord Birthday very reluctantly revealed himself on a podcast, Invisibilia. The link is here, and the segment on Lord Birthday starts at 20:00.

He’s Chad Murphy, a business school professor at Oregon State University, described as “the squarest man on Earth,” raised a Mormon, and he talks about the “birth” of Lord Birthday as though it was something that was visited upon him very suddenly. As though another personality suddenly appeared to him, and within moments he was drawing these strange pictures and making absurd word combinations.

He’s now apparently coming to terms with the secret coming out. As a fellow pseudonymous cartoonist whose personality seemed to be split in two, I can relate.

Not only does he have to incorporate the existence of Lord Birthday into his professional life, but also into his family. Read the rest

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH, even though techonology has moved on, the government tries desperately to save the VHS cassette-makin' way of life.