Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH President Trump is told about Russia putting a bounty on US soldiers, and leaps into his usual action

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH an amazing new scientific discovery could save us all from Covid

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Gavin Smythe of Chagrin Falls, USA, mows his lawn in a black-and-white world

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the Seussian BLM-I-am wonders if he can protest here or there or anywhere

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH yet the CEO community is outraged by yet another executive killed during a regulatory investigation

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH The Don's criminal reign becomes even more brazen, as he publicly extorts a state during a pandemic

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH we all come out, it's time for the lottery

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH William Barr advertises his services as Attorney General for presidents injured by investigations into their actual corruption

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH civil rights advocate Donald J. Trump advises African Americans on the "right" way to protest

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH we appreciate the diverse comedy stylings of Donald Trump

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Hollingsworth hounds that Lucky Ducky back out to work, but you just know he'll still find a way to win

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the mischievous imp little Donald is warned of a coming alien virus invasion and leaps into inaction

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH a historical "News of the Times" reports F.D.R.'s dismissal of the Pearl Harbor attack as a hoax

Last week, I made the first book in my EMU Club Adventures series, Alien Invasion in My Backyard, available for download for free. And today the second book, Ghostly Thief of Time, is also available for download. Free.

I hope these books can offer some respite, and fun and excitement, for families under the stressful conditions of quarantine. After all, they are about three bored kids who find an amazing adventure just by being exceptionally creative and curious.

Next week, check out my social media for a little project kids can do once they've finished the books.

Information on how to download both books is HERE.

Stuart Tennemeier, his best friend Brian Hrzincz, and his sister Violet want to start a mystery club like the ones they read about in books, but they have no idea how to even find a mystery in their suburban neighborhood. They settle on trying to solve a mundane mystery from their lives – what happened to the game controller they lost – and they find that when you look really, really closely at your world, you can find absolutely amazing things. And maybe even save the world. The EMU Club Adventures series, for kids aged 7-11 (and adventurous, curious spirits of all ages), is by cartoonist Ruben Bolling, the author of the award-winning comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug. Read the rest

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH is presented The New New Yorker

To do far less than my part in helping families in quarantine/home isolation, I'm offering a FREE download of the first book in my book series for kids, The EMU Club Adventures: Alien Invasion in My Backyard, for anyone who wants it.

Free. No charge.

Info for downloading the pdf of the book is at THIS LINK.

The book was first released in 2015, and here are a few endorsements:

"Ruben Bolling is one of my cartooning heroes, and The EMU Club Adventures is seriously, mysteriously funny!" - Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid

"There's no mystery—the EMU Club is a hit! This is a fun, funny adventure that kids will love to read." —Lincoln Peirce, Big Nate

"The EMU Club inhabits exactly the world I always hoped to live in when I was 12, when the answer to questions like 'Where did I put my toy' led inevitably to alien conspiracies and secret underground tunnels. A book for the curious and adventurous!" - Cory Doctorow

I hope your kids have some fun with it. Maybe you will too.

In a week, I'm going to provide a link to download the second book in the series, Ghostly Thief of Time. Also for free. Read the rest

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix features "Sully's Place," "Nutso Kaputo" and more