After 35 years of weekly publication, Tom the Dancing Bug (featured every week here on Boing Boing) is finally getting its complete archival treatment. Clover Press launched a Kickstarter campaign on October 28 to fund the first two chronological volumes of cartoonist Ruben Bolling's acclaimed strip, covering its experimental beginnings from 1990 through 1998.

The two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist comic started as something entirely different from what readers know today. Volume 1, "Secret Origins," captures Bolling's bizarre early experiments where "new characters and formats kept percolating up." Those first months included abandoned projects and wild experimentation before the strip "coalesced into something more consistently resembling the award-winning Tom the Dancing Bug."

Volume 2,

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