And the Caption Contest Winner is – ME!! And all of you who agreed with me that cats getting attention on social media is the bane of existence for someone posting something they actually spent time on.
And the inspiration was this picture of our cats, playing on the ipad with their favorite app Games for Cats.
Cartoon Caption Contest time. You need to help me complete the words that best go into the third panel. While I posed this as a cartoonist I think we can all relate to posting things online only for them to get ignored while other crap gets a bunch of attention. Here are some options I came up with:
All of my choices have actually happened to me. Like one of these or got something better. Post it in the comments. I’ll put the finished one up either Wed or next Sunday.
Today’s cartoon is not, I repeat NOT based on my life. I have a full head of green hair. Rather it was told to me by a friend who luckily has the kind of head that can pull off baldness.
I was out with the friend who told me this last night and was telling him I was going to post it. My wife said “Well Bearman doesn’t check out women’s boobs.” I replied “Well I guess I am sly enough that YOU don’t notice”
Former Governor and current GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney turned 65 this week proclaiming that he would not enroll for Social Security payments or Medicare.
For those unfamiliar, AARP is an organization in the States that has huge interest group focusing on those above 50 on age related issues. It was formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons. Historically in the U.S. the retirement age has been 65 though you can get your AARP card which offers discounts on travel, restaurants etc long before that age. In fact I knew a 30 year old once who had her card. I guess all you need to do is send in your money and boom, there it is.
Oh and Denny’s is a national chain of restaurants that specializes in breakfast food.
Tim Burton is remaking Frankenweenie. Frankenweenie was originally a short film that he did in 1984. Well he is updating it to a full length feature film.
Image: Wired MagazineI am sorry but that has to be the most unfortunate name for a movie. Somehow I would have thought that an adult film would be named that.
Ah the lovely internet troll. Anyone that blogs or posts regularly somewhere online has run across this person at least once. Some of you probably ARE the troll. I don’t judge. haha. So give us your best troll story.
This is kind of a search engine experiment. Last year I posted a sign of the wrestler Sheamus. Today if you do a google image search of “Sheamus Sign“, guess whose image pops up first? So while there are cartoons of internet trolls, it would be interesting to see if I could get this one to page one. There are a couple other phrases that people use to find my site so I may do cartoons of those in the future. Any you would like to see?
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Happy Valentine’s Day. Don’t let those Zombies eat your heart out. Does anyone celebrate Valentine’s Day outside the United States?
Today’s cartoon on condom purchasing and the embarrassment it can cause was inspired by real life. The other day I had a few things to pick up at the grocery store and I was waiting in line behind a 20 something woman who confidently held a box of condoms in her hand ready to purchase. I thought to myself that I was so happy to be married so I didn’t have to deal with that anymore.
I don’t know about you but when I used to buy condoms, I tended to throw a couple more non essential items into the basket. For a time at my local grocery store you had to ask the pharmacist to unlock a cabinet where they were located. I guess because people would rather steal them than be embarrassed by purchasing them.
Thinking back, condom purchasing wasn’t the only thing I used to be embarrassed doing. I once was a gopher in an office where I had to buy tampons for the five women that worked there. Of course none of them used the same type. So here I went lugging five boxes up to the counter. The clerk looked at me funny and I said “This is the lowest point in my career.”
Even speaking up and ordering a drink at a crowded bar. I tended to just hold my money in my hand hoping eventually the bartender would see me. My wife can’t believe that I ever was shy for any reason. How about you? Anything you used to abhor doing that is no big deal now?
I’ve seen some things floating around the web describing the steps for people to figure out their Blues Singer name. We never played that game but we did ask people their Porn Star Name. Plus when else am I going to be able to fit a caricature of Adult Film star legend Ron Jeremy into a cartoon post. So fess up Bearmaniacs….what is yours?
Oh and someone pointed out that this might be security answers on websites and you may so your alternative is to tell us your Middle Name and the First Car you Drove.
The guys at Obscure Gentlemen webcomic actually cared what I have to say. Go check out my interview with them. Aidan, George and Tony better go because I give you shout outs.
This cartoon was inspired by my attempts over the last 4 months to do more caricature work. If you get a caricature done by me or someone else there are several reactions you may have.
I have run the gamut of reactions to my own work, though I have only had one person actually tell me number four (yet more probably felt that way). I had my wife, and biggest critic, look over the work and she said “Yeah it looks like her, she just isn’t that attractive.” I find that women are way more sensitive to you pointing out prominent characteristics in caricature. I tend to go more realistic versus cartoony as I do with men.
A piece of advice I got from Jerry Dowling, former Cincinnati Enquirer editorial cartoonist and caricature artist, is that you should over emphasize the size of women’s eyes…they seem to like that. He may or may not have said something about boob size too, I can’t remember.
He related a story of live drawing a caricature of a woman as her husband was looking over his shoulder. Suddenly, her husband, who obviously thought the drawing wasn’t pretty enough, said “Don’t you know she is a former Beauty Queen.” To which Jerry handed him his pen and said “Great, so you finish up the drawing”