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  Zach Clemente, IN SPACE! Boston-area comics fans will find this one especially interesting: Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo Outreach Co-Director Zach Clemente — also the founder of the Boston-based comics publisher Bulgilhan Press — joins us to talk about how MICE plans to come roaring back this year bigger and better than ever. (But still with plenty of holdovers that people are sure to recognize at their new location at Boston University, like yellow balloons at the kid-friendly tables.)  One key change to keep in mind, though: “The cheese might be different — we potentially secured a [new] cheese sponsor. So we will see how that goes for us.” No worries, Zach, to us cheeses are cheeses! Listen or watch below to find out everything you need to know about the 30+ free events and workshops planned for this year's MICE, coming to 808 Gallery at Boston University's Fuller Building Oct. 22-23 (with some additional events on Oct. 20 and online). You can find the full sche

Ruben Bolling, a.k.a. Ken Fisher. Ruben Bolling — the nom de plume of “Tom the Dancing Bug” cartoonist Ken Fisher — seems to be doing pretty well for himself. The Tufts and Harvard Law grad’s strip is nationally syndicated via Andrews McMeel ; Clover Press is in the midst of publishing a beautiful set of full-color paperbacks collecting his complete works; and he was just given a coveted Reuben Award by the National Cartoonists Society. Oh, and he was a 2021 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning. But one gets the sense he might give it all up to live in a world without Trump.  “I don't take Trump lightly. I don't I don't think he's necessarily funny or a clown,” Bolling told us about the former president. “I think he's unbelievably dangerous, and the movement behind him is an existential threat. So my job is to make fun of that — sort of whistling in the dark.” Bolling sat down with two of his fellow Tufts grads — yes, that would be us — to talk