Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for September 28, 2023

God is a Russian novelist.

Oh, man. Cross-hatching? I wanted to focus on screen tones.

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Yep. That’s God-Man alright.

Is it supposed to look kind of like Mel Lazarus’s Miss Peach?

I can’t wait for cross-hatching!

So that’s how god does it.

Thanks for giving away system, Ruben! Now we gotta start doing comic strips like my kids keep insisting are funny.

Gosh, I’d like to have an idyllic life like his!

Ziggy with pants? ☺

Gods, not God. Billions, not one.

All fiction is roman à clef, to some degree.

But you forgot to promise your protagonist pie in the sky when he dies!

Great guide, so that’s what I’ve been doing wrong all this time.

OMGM!

This is my life! (Except for the last 2 panels which are yet to come.)

Finally, the instruction manual I needed!