Finalist: Ken Fisher, drawing as Ruben Bolling, for “Tom the Dancing Bug,” Andrews McMeel Syndicate
Nominated Work
April 6, 2020
April 20, 2020
May 4, 2020
June 8, 2020
June 22, 2020
August 17, 2020
August 24, 2020
September 21, 2020
September 28, 2020
November 10, 2020
November 17, 2020
November 24, 2020
December 1, 2020
December 8, 2020
December 15, 2020
Biography
Ruben Bolling is the author of the weekly comic strip “Tom the Dancing Bug,” distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication to newspapers across North America. The comic strip has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, and hundreds of other newspapers.
“Tom the Dancing Bug” also is featured every week on BoingBoing.net, one of the most linked-to websites in the world, DailyKos.com, the premier online political community website, and GoComics.com, the largest comics website.
Ruben Bolling won the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Cartooning, for his work on “Tom the Dancing Bug.” He was awarded the 2017 Herblock Prize for Editorial Cartooning, after being the Finalist in 2016. He also was the 2014 Gold Medal Winner for the Society of Illustrators Comic Strip Awards. He is a Sigma Delta Chi Award winner (Society of Professional Journalists), a multiple Harvey Award nominee, and a five-time winner of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Best Cartoon Award.
In 2019, Bolling was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning.
Ruben Bolling is also the author/illustrator of The EMU Club Adventures, a series of science fiction/humor books for kids, published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. The first book in the series is Alien Invasion in My Backyard, and the second is Ghostly Thief of Time, both published in 2015.
In 2020, in honor of the comic strip’s 30th Anniversary, Clover Press published Into the Trumpverse: The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug, 2016-2019, the first in a series of volumes of books compiling the entire run of “Tom the Dancing Bug.”
In addition to the weekly comic strip, Ruben Bolling has had original comics published in such magazines as Nickelodeon, Mad Magazine, ESPN The Magazine and Harper’s. The New Yorker has published twelve full-page color cartoons by Bolling. He had a limited-run daily comic strip, “Donald and John,” that ran on TheNib.com for the five weeks before the 2016 presidential election, which won the 2017 National Cartoonists Society Best Online Comic award.
Ruben Bolling lives in New York City with his wife and three children.