Ruben Bolling

Raised in the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey, Fisher graduated from Millburn High School in 1980, where he was co-editor of the school newspaper and started drawing cartoons, but with little success. Fisher, who has no formal art training, read many comic strips when he was a child (his biggest influence being Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury), that has not been realized. Newspapers that have published Tom the Dancing Bug include The Washington Post, The Village Voice, and Los Angeles Times. In 2012, Fisher launched a subscription service, the Inner Hive, which he credits with keeping the comic strip going amid declines in print newspapers. == Awards ==

Ruben Bolling is a five-time winner of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Award for Best Cartoon, for 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, and 2009. In 2010, he received the Society of Professional Journalists award for Editorial Cartooning for a non-daily publication. He won numerous awards for his satirical criticism of the Donald Trump presidency. He was the winner of the 2017 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning based on a selection of 15 Trump-themed Tom the Dancing Bug cartoons. In 2017, he won a 2017 Silver Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society for "Donald and John," a series in the style of Calvin and Hobbes that cast Donald Trump as a childish Calvin-like figure and Trump alter-ego John Barron as Trump's "imaginary publicist" in place of Hobbes. He was awarded a prize for best cartoon in the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. In 2019 and 2021 Ken Fisher was a finalist in the Editorial Cartooning category for the Pulitzer Prize. For "mordant wit, superior artwork, and inventive delivery" Ruben Rolling won the 2021 Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons from the National Press Foundation. Ruben Bolling won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2022 and was nominated again in 2023. == Personal life ==

Fisher is married to an attorney. They have three children. == Bibliography ==