Eating Crow and Other Updates

So you may be wondering why I am “eating crow” this week.  My wife and I tend to not argue about the big stuff, but rather the stupid stuff.  One ongoing argument was how to end this childhood chant.

We always said Diarrhea, Diarrhea.  Some people think it’s funny but it’s really BROWN and runny.  My wife said it was “WET and runny”   So I put it out to Google Plus and those losers (I say it with love) sided with her 11-8.  I didn’t say who thought which but I would eat crow if I was wrong so here is me paying up my bet.

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Charity Challenge Update

Include Bearman in a webcomic – $10

• Bo Lumpkin at Gatorhead

Blog about the Challenge – $10

• Bill Murphy at Casually Employed Webcomic
• Jande at Aedre’s Firefly
• Julian at Undead Llama Webcomic
• Brandon G. Gromada Head and Neck Cancer Foundation

Adding Beartoons.com to Blog Roll or Banner Ad Addition – $5

• MJ Logan at Saturday Sunshine Blog
• Valentine Logar
• Julian at Undead Llama

New Followers on Google Plus – $1

551 new followers – $289

Giving us a weekly total of $354 and a month to date total of $1020.  Thanks to all

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Finally my friend and uber talented artist Christina Wald is the illustrator of a book called Wordsworth and the Dragon.  Check out more and consider helping to fund the book printing in their Indiegogo campaign.

 

2013 Charity Challenge Week 1 Results

Week one of the Charity Challenge is rocking.  Thanks to all who have been involved.  If you want to get involved, since it goes through the end of the month, please go here for more information.

Include “Bearman” in a webcomic or Bearman Fan Art – $10

• Kim Belding of PicPak
• C. Glen Williams of Frighteningly Pretentious Comix
• Christopher L did this fine bit of fan art

Blog about the Challenge – $10

• Christopher L of Anything Wiki
• Duncan of Madhatters
• Friggin Loon
• Rachael at YoYo-Dyne
• Marti at Marti’s Geneology Adventures (and Brandon’s Aunt)
• Katrina Szatmari at Ravings of a Lunatic

Adding Beartoons.com to Blog Roll or Banner Ad Addition – $5

• Andro
• Chris L
• Rudy
• Cha
• Marti

New Followers on Google Plus – $1

551 new followers – $551

 

For a week one grand total of $666.   The devil is in the details.  Thanks to all for helping.

Bearman Cartoons Charity Challenge 2013

Yes it is that time of year once again.  The Bearman Cartoons Charity Challenge, where you do stuff and I donate money to worthy charities.  I have been extremely fortunate that both my wife and I are gainfully employed during this tough economic times so I am upping the ante this year.

This is the Fifth Year I have done this so far donating $2806 ($336 in 2009, $630 in 2010, $690 in 2011, $1150 in 2012) and it will run until the end of May.

Many of you know that I do this challenge each year to raise awareness of my blog while giving money to charities who need it.  Historically, this has been the majority of my advertising budget for the year so if you enjoy Bearman Cartoons, please help by spreading the word on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, etc and/or thumbing up on StumbleUpon or Reddit.

I have decided that this year I will divide evenly the amount of money donated between three charities up to $1500.  The fact that we hit the goal last year made me want to do more this year:

The first being the  Cincinnati FreeStore Foodbank. This charity does great things not only to feed those in need but also to help families get back on their feet in other ways.

The second charity is the Brandon C Gromada Head and Neck Cancer Foundation.   Many of you know that my friend Brandon passed away last year leaving his wife and six month old daughter.  His family set up this foundation to direct funds to research for better treatments.  This rare type of cancer also took the life of one of Brandon’s idols almost one year ago today – Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys.

And the third is of course one of my favorite charities,  Crayons to Computers.  It is a free store for teachers allowing them to stock up on school and art supplies for their students/classrooms.

But that is not all.   Once again, I am going to match dollar for dollar anything you donate to Crayons to Computers up to a max $500.  When donating just make it in Honor of Bearman Cartoons and they will know how to notify me.   So that is $2000 of my own money I am will to put up to get the word out about these causes.

I will donate the indicated amount for each thing that you do in the month of May:

• $10 – For any cartoonists who uses ME in a cartoon in their strip.  Use “BEARMAN” somewhere in the toon.  Maybe it’s a character’s name, a name on a bar sign in the background, integrating my green haired gravatar into a background character or even loosely as “Check out that Bear, man!”  Be sure to link back to this post so I know to include you in my tally.   I know some of you work with a buffer so if you plan to post after May just contact me and let me know and I will add it to the list.
• $5 – Add http://beartoons.com to your blog roll (for those who don’t already have it)
• $5 – Add a Bearman Cartoons Banner Ad (found here) on your site or if you already have one upgrade to a larger size.  Link it to http://beartoons.com
• $10 – Blog about my challenge to your readers and link back to this entry in your post – http://beartoons.com/2013/04/30/bearman-cartoons-charity-challenge-2013/
• $5 – Send a picture of yourself wearing a t-shirt from our shop OR send a picture that showcases that you are a BEARMANiac. Photos will be showcased in weekly updates and also appear ongoing in the BEARMANia section.    See below for my favorite fan pic from Lynn.
• $1 – Circle/Follow me on Google Plus – http://googleplus.beartoons.com.   Currently I have 29,130 followers.

If you add me to your blog roll, add/upgrade your banner, include this challenge in a post, please indicate in the comments. I’ll post a weekly update of the money raised and who did what to raise the money with links back to your site if applicable.

Thanks for your continued support.

…and the winners are

Did the drawing for the Gourmet Popcorn Giveaway.   Winners please email me your flavor choice and address.

 

Google Plus Winners: Christina Fisher and Carolyn Curtis

Beartoons.com Winners: Friggin’ Loon and Karen Elaine

Thanks to all that entered.

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