Category: Beartoons

  • Bearman Cartoon: Guest Toonist on Addanac City

    One of my frequent visitors and a member of my blog roll is the creator of a great webtoon called Addanac City (where the heck he got the name Addanac from it don’t know – someone thought it was Canada backwards with an extra “d”).

    Anyway, the main character of the cartoon is Hank.  I see Hank as a cross between Dennis the Menace and Bart Simpson.  He has Barts “eat me” attitude but sometimes the naivete of Dennis who does bad stuff but doesn’t always realize the effect he has on others.

    After my guest cartoon run on Unemployed Dad, George (the mastermind behind Addanac) invited me to work on a guest cartoon for Addanac City in my editorial cartoon style.  Hank has a whacked out hairdo and I always questioned why.   So I came up with my own answer.

    I’ll post it here tomorrow, but for now go visit AddanacCity.com  and see my take.

    ****** UPDATE******

    Here it is:
    2 27 09 Bearman Cartoon Addanac City copy

  • Bearman Cartoon: Employee Job Satisfaction

    Thanks to Chiraq for his post that gave me the idea to create this editorial cartoon.

    With the economy sucking wind, I don’t hear my friends complaining right now about their crappy jobs. Instead everyone is singing the praises of their company (at least to their boss) in hopes of making it through the next round of cuts.

    3 2 09 Bearman Cartoon Job Satisfaction copy

  • Bearman Cartoon: Guest Toonist on Unemployed Dad

    In a previous post, I talked about the web cartoon Unemployed Dad.  Michael graciously allowed me to be a guest cartoonist and do my typical editorial cartoon take on his characters.

    I’ll post it here tomorrow but for now you can see it here.

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    I have been sufficiently ragged on at the UD website so now I can post it here.

    2 27 09 Bearman Cartoon Unemployed Dad 488

  • Bearman Cartoon: Presidential Scare Tactics

    This editorial cartoon came to me as I was listening to President Barack Obama’s speech in Elkhart, Indiana this past week.

    “If we don’t act immediately, our nation will sink into a crisis that, at some point, we may be unable to reverse.”

    That scare tactic, reminded me of the things then President George Bush said after September 11, in order to pass a strong Terror Bill.

    I like the fact that he takes his message to the people and disagree with Robert Schlesinger that he can go to the well once too often and overuse this tactic.    But I am uncomfortable with words that intend to scare people into doing thing they wouldn’t otherwise.  On the other hand I think it is disingenuous for House/Senate Republican to call him out for fear mongering when Bush did it himself.  I, on the other hand, have all the rights to call anyone on this.

    I am not sold on many of the elements of the  stimulus package.  I think much of the turmoil in the markets has been due to Wall Street and Businesses waiting to see if the government would pull the trigger to help save them rather than working on a plan to save themselves.  Personally I agree with an article I read in the Economist, that concluded that no matter if the stimulus package works or not, eventually the economy will turn around and Obama will get the credit.

    BTW…for the two people who keep track…what do you think of my new Obama?

    2 13 09 Bearman Cartoon Obama Pushy Presidents

  • Bearman Cartoon: Jim Schifrin's Abandoned Ship

    The Cincinnati Beacon, where I initially started posting my cartoons, has been aglow with attacks on Jim Schifrin who writes a local newsletter called the Whistleblower (See here and here). Personally I never read his stuff unless the Beacon (about yearly) goes after him for his ever apparent racist remarks.

    Lately though it seems anyone with political office or political aspirations has been repudiating the things Schifrin writes just so they don’t get put in the same group as him.

    Are his supporters telling him to lay off talking about their friendship or abandoning him all together?

    2 6 09 Bearman Cartoon Schifrin Supporter Jump Ship

  • Bearman Cartoon: Obama's Economic Recovery Plan

    Today Tom Daschle announced he is pulling himself out of consideration for Secretary of Health and Human Services because he owed approx $120,000 in unpaid taxes. Right before that Nancy Killefer withdrew her name as potential Chief Performance Officer because of about $1000 in owed taxes.

    And even new Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, somehow forgot to pay $34,000 yet still managed to get confirmed.

    Many are blaming Obama for not vetting his nominees. But my editorial cartoon shows that maybe Obama was thinking about the economy and is just working his plan.

    2 3 09 Bearman Cartoon Obama Cabinet Tax Evader copy

  • Bearman Cartoon: American Idol Send in the Clowns

    1 29 09 Bearman Cartoon American Idol

    I am one of those people who only watch American Idol during the Audition Show. It’s painfully obvious the types of singers that go through.

    A. Sing a slower song because…
    B. 95% of the people they choose over do the vibrato in their voice.

    In the past two weeks two contestants Rebecca Garcia and Naomi Sykes were called out because one of the judges thought their audition was a joke reducing the poor girls to tears. I am not the only one to notice. Vote for the Worst website, that pokes fun at the tactics Idol producers use, caught this.

    There are plenty of good singers who don’t make it through because they pick a bad song and plenty of ok ones that make it through because they made better song choices.

    Personally I liked Rockstar INXS and Supernova because they had people pick vote each week and the bottom were put on the block for the judges to boot off…so there was at least some semblance of who had talent.

    Anyway, back to Idol, I don’t get why some people are so upset when they get booted. Don’t their friends and family tell them they aren’t that good. I think they should all get credit for having the guts to audition but do they think they will get a trophy like they did when they sucked at soccer as a kid just for showing up??

  • Bearman Cartoon: Rob Blagojevich = Gandhi??

    According to several sources (Huffington Post, NBC, and LA Times), current (but probably not after this week) Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich invoked the name of those he seems to put himself on par with.

    Reflecting on his feelings about his arrest on December 9, Blagojevich told NBC, “I thought about Mandela, Dr. King and Gandhi and tried to put some perspective to all this and that is what I am doing now.”

    So with this editorial cartoon and his visit to “The View”, I thought I would give a little more perspective to Mr. Blagojevich.

    110 09 Bearman Cartoon Blagojevich is like Ghandi

  • Bearman Cartoon: New way to bailout the Banks

    As the banking industry continues to stumble given the latest earnings reports, their stock takes hit after hit. I thought at what point could I just take my meager earnings and buy one of them out. End result…this editorial cartoon.

    1 23 09 Bearman Cartoon Buying Banks

  • Bearman Cartoon: Kevin Bacon bilked by Bernard Madoff

    Drew this editorial cartoon after reading on the Huffington Post that Kevin Bacon was one of the unfortunate victims of the Ponzi Scheme of Bernard Madoff. (see here and here for other accounts)

    My dad always said to be skeptical of anything that seemed too good to be true. This guy was pulling in unprecedented returns year after year and none of his clients were suspicious. At the very least the lesson learned should be don’t invest all your dough with one entity. Some of us aren’t talented (or lucky) enough to make a couple million for 6 months work on a movie set.

    Anyway, those familiar with LinkedIn know that it is a professional networking site. If Bob is connected to Jill, they are one degree of separation. If Jill is connected to Monica, then Bob and Monica are two degrees of separation. It is much like the old college game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”. So I figured Kevin might have something to trade for some work.

    BTW, Kevin is on Linkedin (at least someone claiming to be him) and I am 3 degrees of separation.

    110 09 Bearman Cartoon Kevin Bacon victim of Bernard Madoff