Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for January 23, 2025

Wot? No Nazi salutes?

These Richard Scarry take-offs are brilliant. The sequel, More Richard Scarry’s 21st Century Busy Town Jobs, is even darker than this one (and, unfortunately, even more reflective of the era the US is now entering). And his Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy 21st Century Classroom is so grim that Bolling himself said of it on his Substack page, “I drew this comic, but I can barely look at it.”

Missed the Influencer. Took me a while to understand this, if it can be?

I don’t get it. Why is the money launderer wearing a Tyrolean hat?

Lowly immigrant?!? Who will do that job once Trump and the MAGA followers send all those “lowly immigrants” back to their home countries?

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

But climate change will kill us all, so, never mind.

2014. Back when no-one could even imagine president dumba$$.

Dingo Dog drives his Uber too fast.

What is a PED doctor?

What amuses me is that the lowly immigrant is the one that makes the whole place look presentable…

OK but what is the defining point here?

That’s so accurate it’s scarry.

Today, the Content Aggregator copying the artist’s work is now an AI entrepreneur. And the Super PAC Money Launderer’s job is obsolete — thanks to the Supreme Court, you can now buy politicians (and justices) out in the open.

“The Tyrolean hat also Tyrolese hat, Bavarian hat or Alpine hat”Swiss enough!

How do I get a job as professional celebrity?

Maybe this one is pre influencer.

Why isn’t the Content Creator drawing Doug?

“Crypto” needs to be included. Or, maybe that’s under “money launderer”.

Speaking of public domain…

Newest 21st Century job: violent pardoned MAGA mob member.