Ruben Bolling is the cartoonist behind the acclaimed comic strip "Tom the Dancing Bug." Bolling started "Tom the Dancing Bug" while a student at Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1987. He launched the strip professionally in a small New York City newspaper in 1990 and was self-syndicated until Universal Press Syndicate (now Andrews McMeel Syndication) signed him in June 1997. "Tom the Dancing Bug" boasts a client list that includes a diverse array of newspapers representing the breadth of contemporary journalism. The thought-provoking comic panel also appears weekly on Boing Boing, a popular humor and social commentary website. 

The cartoon has had much success, winning critical raves—Rolling Stone magazine named it "Hot Comic Strip of the Year." "Tom the Dancing Bug" received the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Best Cartoon Award five times. It is also the winner of the Society of Professional Journalists Award for Editorial Cartooning and is a Harvey Award nominee for Best Comics Strip.

 Bolling lives and works in New York City with his wife and three children.