Sure in a Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three Spirits/Ghosts. What if the spirits that were foretold by his deceased partner Jacob Marley turned out to be alcohol? May you all have a very spirited Christmas (or whatever you celebrate).
Tag: Bearman
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The Spirits of Christmas
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Despicable Bearman
Just a quickie drawing. Seems Despicable Me minions are all the rage on social media the past few weeks. So of course I had to make a Bearmanion, or is it Bearminion?
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Rampage Cincinnati
Anyone remember the video game Rampage? It was one of my favorites. So one of my ideas lately is to combine some pictures of Cincinnati with monsters. Last year on our staycation the wife and I went on top of Carew Tower (for years was the tallest building in the city) and I took some snapshots. Unfortunately the cloudy day didn’t make the end result of the pic that great. Yet when I saw the Fifth Third Tower in one of my pics it brought me back to pumping quarters into the Rampage game.Now of course I didn’t use the exact monsters from rampage but did my own version of a giant ape and giant lizard beating down a building.
So what do you think? Not sure if I captured it well that they cartoon images actually belong in this scene with the coloring/shading choices I made. My wife didn’t think it mattered and loved it so much that for once she requested a print. Thoughts on making it better in future?
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Mick Foley Caricature and Comedy Review
So it is no secret that the wife and I are fans of wrestling (and no you wouldn’t know it by looking at either of us). WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley has parlayed his second act into being an exceptional writer with multiple best sellers and now doing stand up acts all over the world. Several months ago I looked on his website to see if he was coming to the area but nothing. I do follow Mick on twitter (and you all know how lazy I am about checking twitter anymore) but I happened to see a message from him on Wednesday night talking about being in Cincinnati the next night. WHAT??
So of course we were in and I had to whip up a special caricature for Mick. Made one for him and one for me hoping he would sign it. Well….
The show was great (ok except for that one guy). His featured act before him was hilarious with several topical references and then Mick got on stage. For about an hour he told stories of his career and some of the funnier events of such. It was less a stand-up act and more a hilarious one man autobiographical show. At one point he even took some questions from the audience. In wrestling, Mick is known as the “Hardcore Legend” and thus explained that he is proud that when you google the phrase, he comes up in the search results and not a porn site.
If you are a wrestling fan, the insights into some of your favorite wrestlers of today and yesterday and what goes on behind the scenes will be all you need. But he also recognizes that not everyone that comes to the show knows who he is and makes sure to explain just enough that everyone stays entertained.
The only gripe I have is that he probably isn’t making as much money as he could with the way they have his merchandise table set up. Included in your ticket was 90 minutes before the show of meet and greet where Mick was sitting at a table signing autographs, taking pictures and selling merchandise. While he had someone helping sell the merchandise, people are there to see him first and merch second. I would suggest moving the merchandise table earlier in the line (in our case outside the venue) so people can peruse and buy it without feeling rushed and then go in with their swag for Mick to sign. Check out his site for showtimes in your area.
BONUS
I got home this weekend to find a package from one Jande Rowe, cartoonist extraordinaire at Aedre’s Firefly. She promised a “Bearman” picture and certainly delivered. I love the colors, the detail and time spent on this. Add one to my cherished toons list. Thanks Jande!
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Bearman Cartoon: Why I keep a Home Phone Line
Hat tip to Colleen of Tix Comix who prompted my memory in my last post as to the main reason I keep my home phone line. I lose my cell phone all the time in the house and am always using my home phone line to call it. Sure I can use the locate function on iphones, but then I have to remember how to do it. And what if I lost my cell phone during a power/internet outage?
Oh and look, I used my own handwriting on this one. Now you know why I tend to type text.
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Guest Cartoon: Stef Marcinkowski
Stef Marcinkowski of the web graphic novel Sarah Zero, surprised me with this parody send up of Metallica’s album cover from “Master of Puppets”. The original can be found on Wikipedia
Check out Stef’s blogpost that describes his process. FIFTEEN HOURS, yes I said 15 hours to complete this monstrous task. And with an infant crawling around the house too. That is a true Bearmaniac!!
Guest Cartoon Request
Taking some time off the first couple weeks of December so if you are a webcomic artist looking to promote your work this is a great opportunity. I am doing a repeat of my very first guest cartoon request. Since I don’t have regular characters, I want to see you use your characters with a twist. Here is what I am looking for:
- Show us what one of your characters will look like at age 100 OR looked like at age one.
- Single Panel (max 500 pixel width)
- Give me a paragraph that describes your webcomic and who the character is that you have drawn
- Send to me bearmancartoons at yahoo.com
- Submit by November 20.
Need inspiration? Well you can check out the submissions from when I put out the call back in 2009 from George Ford, Dan Long, Byron Wilkins, Warren Frantz, Robert Matejcek aka Spilled Ink, and Nate Fakes
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Bearman Classic: Marge Simpson Playboy
Busy week so letting those of you who haven’t been around since the beginning days check out a Bearman retro cartoon.
Back in 2009, Marge Simpson was set to appear in Playboy Magazine. Anything to boost magazine sales huh? Well this was my take on what that centerfold spread might have looked like.
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Cartoon You Stink
When I first started this blog, I was all about the number of hits I got. I would check my stats several times a day hoping to see a spike. As I have matured as a blogger, I am more interested in the amount of engagement on my posts rather than pure numbers.
However it doesn’t mean I don’t periodically check out my stats especially when I notice a larger than normal spike.
For whatever reason today I noticed that yesterday I got over 1000 hit spike from Yahoo search engines. I mean no one uses Yahoo search engines anymore so that is huge (haha j/k Yahoo). Seriously though I get little traffic from that source. A little investigation in what the image search term people were using to find my site came up with….
Cartoon You Stink
Now it would be interesting to know if that result was based on something I wrote or whether it was a mistaken snark remark that should have been “Cartoonist, you stink”. My feeling is that 1000 people didn’t actually look for that search term but it was bots instead. Though I don’t know a thing about all that.
What about you. Oddest search term someone has used to find your blog?
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WWE Sheamus Lipschitz Sign
WWE Superstar Wrestler known as Sheamus is from Ireland. On Monday Night Raw Sheamus revealed that his last name is Lipschitz (click for video), joking that his mom was Irish and his dad Jewish. “We spent our days drinking and fighting but our nights feeling very guilty about it.”
Well considering my last Sheamus sign has gotten some airplay on previous broadcasts, I decided to see if this updated version would show up anywhere. Looks like Sheamus in his typical outstretched arm pose is actually singing instead of yelling. Maybe he is practicing for his bar mitzvah.
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Space Cadets: NASA, Mars, and Presidential Candidates
The Cartoonist Studio Editorial Cartoon Contest continues and I made it to week EIGHT!! Thanks to all for voting. Click the image above or here to go to the voting. You should do a search of “Bearman” and my cartoon will come up front and center and then vote. Again, as long as I stay in the contest, there will be two editorial cartoons a week to vote on – Mondays and Thursdays. Oh and you can vote multiple times in each round if you want (resets every six hours) until EOD Saturday.
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Today’s editorial cartoon is a tribute to NASA and their successful landing of the probe CURIOSITY on Mars. With all those “rocket scientists” you would think one of them could help us make sense of the Presidential Candidates and what is going to spew out of their mouths in the upcoming debates.
