Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for January 24, 2025

This is tremendous fun, and what mind besides Bolling’s would have hatched it?

In about 14 years, Superman will be public domain. But you won’t believe a man can fly, just make 1/8 mile jumps.(I was reading a pdf of the original today)

Flicky Mickey?

But I miss Quentin.

Someone’s waiting

In the corner

Could that someone

Be Mick the Knife?

Looks like that mongoose will be waiting a while.

Popeye didn’t need spinach, he was already tough as nails and not afraid of anything.

Just think, under earlier copyright law we could have had this quality of product in 1943.

Well played, Mr. Bolling.

Technicalities abound!

This is hilarious

Percival Dunwoody is from 1909, so he’s been in the public domain all this time…

Love the last panel – “Flick”, LOL!!!

Recently, Friday has been current events or political- should we be worried?

Copy that.

Mr Bolling is laughing now, but what’s he gonna say in seventy or eighty years when someone starts drawing Billy Dare parodies? It won’t be so funny then.

With few (no?) exceptions, the original artists no longer care.

Thanks for giving us something non-political to smile about today.

An instant classic by Ken!

Where’s Quentin?

IP law is complicated.

From now on Ruben Bolling is only using public domain characters to depict mindless fight scenes No more stressful political parody.

I thought that the Popeye-spinach thing was a scheme to get the children to eat their spinach.