Tag: Bearman cartoons

  • Editorial Cartoon: Why I pay Taxes

    Editorial Cartoon: Why I Pay Taxes

    This editorial cartoon was inspired by an article that I can’t find anymore.  I was in Kiplingers, Fortune, Money, Forbes or one of those fancy business magazines.  It came out around the time that people were complaining about GE not paying any taxes and it had to do with how CEO’s of major companies have been legally avoiding the taxman through various tax shelters.  Anyone who finds that article, let me know.

    These are guys that can afford to have full time accountants and finance people figuring out ways to work the loop holes of the tax system to their advantage.  Don’t get me wrong, I am not a fan of forking over a larger portion of my paycheck to taxes either.  But if it came down to raising my taxes or closing some loopholes that the uber rich can take advantage of…which one do you think I would prefer? 

    I am not one who thinks we shouldn’t pay taxes.  I just think we need better prioritization of the spending of our tax dollars and better controls of out of line politicians.

    On the other hand, I agree with conservatives who don’t want the Obama administration to raise taxes on families in the $250,000 range.  All too many of those are entrepreneurs with small businesses.  But someone in the $500,000+ range, go hire a finance guy to find the latest loophole.

    Going to be out of loop for the next few days so talk amongst yourselves, tweet or stumble this if you want, and don’t forget to support the charity challenge.

    Bearman Cartoons Charity Challenge

  • Charity Challenge Week One Results

    Bearman Cartoons Charity Challenge

    Week one is complete and we started out thing with a bang.

    First though, let me thank the folks at the Webcomic Alliance for letting me hijack their site today and blog about the challenge.  If you are a cartoonist or interested in cartooning as a business, they offer a wealth of information, so check them out.  In addition, since several of their members are behind the Webcomics: What’s Cooking Book which is also raising money for hunger,  I promised to pay an additional $5 for every book they sold this month.  I’ll update at the end of the month on that tally.

    Here is the week one breakdown:

    $2 each for 11 new followers me on Facebook

    $2 each for valerie_smith, drawntobewild, CincyCasino, DigitalAdhesive, ChewyHuman, Beefstu409, Wombie, CincyLiveMusic, manchesternova, InfctiusCharity, Foreman_8157 for following me on Twitter.

    $10 each for including me in their cartoon:

    $5 each for those adding a link or banner to Beartoons on their site:

    $10 each to those who blogged about the challenge:

    Please let me know if I missed anyone!!!

    Which gives us a week 1 total of ………$204

    Let me know if I missed anyone. If you want to find out how to get involved just click the image above to go to the post that explains it all.

  • Editorial Cartoon: Osama Dead

    Editorial Cartoon: Osama Dead Trump wants Proof

    Can anyone tell me what joke was repeated over and over on Sunday night?  If you said “Donald Trump is demanding to see Bin Laden’s Death Certificate” you would be right.  Go see for yourself.   

    In fact, the first time I saw the joke, I thought it would make a cute editorial cartoon.  By the 20th time I saw it, I thought it was a little overdone.  I guess that didn’t stop these editorial cartoonists. 

    The basis of the joke (for the uninformed) is that Donald Trump is toying with running for President.  So his first public act of late has been to join the birthers in their efforts to say that President Barack Obama wasn’t actually born in Hawaii so he shouldn’t have been eligible to be President.  Trump had been calling for Obama’s Birth Certificate.  Of course when Obama did share it, Trump just took credit for being able to put that rumor to rest and allow the country to move on.  Ever the opportunist.

    So I thought I would take the joke (which you see in panel one) and go a slightly different route for the punchline.  Did I use an outdated reference with the title “Weekend at Donalds”???

    Don’t forget the Charity Challenge.  Click image for Details.

    Bearman Cartoons Charity Challenge

  • Editorial Cartoon: Tracy Jones and Scott Sloan

    Editorial Cartoon: Tracey Jones and Scott Sloan

    It’s been a while since I have done an editorial cartoon with a local flair.  Tracy Jones  and Scott Sloan do an afternoon talk show on 700WLW in Cincinnati.  Tracy played professional baseball for 5 years (on five different teams).  Taking nothing away from that accomplishment, Tracy (tongue in cheek) is always telling Sloan that he doesn’t understand:

    • Professional Baseball Players
    • Any professional or college athlete
    • Celebrities
    • Pretty much anything else

    …because Scott “Never played the Game”  

    Recently they have been discussing how Cincinnati Red’s pitcher Mike Leake was arrested for shoplifting.  Leake’s actually bought some shirts and went to exchange them.  Rather than asking for a salesperson’s help, he decided he didn’t have time as he was late getting to the ballpark.  So he exchanged his shirts by putting back his previously purchased ones and tore tags off the ones he wanted, put them back in his bag and walked out the door.

    Tracy of course said the rest of us wouldn’t understand how a professional ballplayer doesn’t have the time to wait around for sales clerks to wait on them.  Scott responded that the rest of us know better than to think we are entitled to make up our own rules.

    Anyone ever come across someone who was “entitled” to not follow the rules because of their position or celebrity?  Or, know of someone who was a “expert” in one field that thinks they know everything about every other field?

    *** UPDATE ****
    Scott emailed me to say that he loved the cartoon and has posted it on his blog.

  • Matzah Ball Cartooon

    Matzah Ball Cartoon

    Happy Passover to my Jewish friends.  This Matzah (Matza, Matzo…damn how do you spell it?) Ball Cartoon was inspired by a conversation I had with a friend.  His girlfriend is Jewish and he went to her house for Passover seder.  He said he really loved the Matzah Ball soup.  I asked him if he knew whether or not they cut the balls off the matzah before or after killing it in the wild.  He looked at me confused for a minute.

    I also made this image.  Thoughts on whether I should put it on a t-shirt?

    I got your Matzah Balls right here

  • Webcomics: What’s Cooking II

    Monkey Bread Recipe from Bearman Cartoons

    So back in October I spoke about a project called Webcomics: What’s Cooking.    In it I told you

    …long time Beartoons supporter Byron Wilkins of 1977 the Comic has teamed up with Kurt Sasso of TGT Webcomics  for a cause near to my heart – Fighting Hunger.  They have collected food related cartoons and recipes from various artists and are in the process of putting them together a cookbook collection.   The proceeds of the book will support Food Banks in the United States and Canada.

    I am not in the book but I promised those who asked that I would publish my recipe once the book was in print.  My Monkey Bread Recipe is the best you will find out there.  Some people call it “Pull Apart Cake” but Monkey Bread has a better ring to it.

    Anyway, I got my copy this past week and love it.  Regulars here including George Ford (Addanac City) and Dr. Carlo Jose San Juan (Callous Comics) are in there with great entries. 

    But I have to say the two that made me laugh the most was Dave Reddick of Legend of Bill and our own Aidan Casserly of Scapula.   Bill is a Barbarian so Dave’s recipe was “Big Barbarian Burgers”  First ingredient – “Beef”.  Second ingredient “Beef”.  Third ingredient – “Beef”.  Just like a real Barbarian.  And Aidan had Scapula performing community service by teaching us all how to make a pot of coffee.

    So order your own copy and support the hungry.

  • Lambert goes Gaga Cartoon

    Adam Lambert goes Lady Gaga Cartoon

    So it seems there is another story of did he or didn’t he.  It seems Lady Gaga was having a private birthday bash and American Idol runner up Adam Lambert showed up with an actually invited guest.  Based on a tip, Hollywood loud mouth gossip columnist Perez Hilton states Adam showed up drunk, jumped around like an animal, punched a hole in the ceiling and tried to smash cake in Gaga’s face.  All leading up to her requesting security remove him from the premises.

    Whether or not she was the one who had security do it or not is under question.  However, if I owned a bar and a drunk ass starting destroying the place, I wouldn’t wait for someone else to ask me to kick him out; he would have been gone quick.

    Now for those not familiar with Gaga’s stunts and thus the references above, let me help.   She showed up to the Grammy’s in an egg, wore a meat suit to the VMAs, had a coke can in her hair for the video Telephone (I thought a phone in her head was funnier).  Now as far as the flipper, I haven’t seen that but just wait.

  • Giving Up After Marriage (Cartoon)

    Give Up After Marriage Cartoon

    This cartoon was inspired by Sunday’s post regarding the article that said people who have sex or exercise infrequently are more prone to heart attacks.  Of course in Sunday’s toon, I poke fun at the guy.  But I am an equal opportunity offender so thought it was the ladies turn.

    The one thing I constantly tell my wife in the years since we got married is:

    Thank you for not giving up!

    I mean how many women (and men) nab their significant other and after the “I do’s” just stop trying.  Stop taking care of themselves, stop being interested in what the other has to say, and in the case above stop caring whether or not they will scare the crap out of their spouse by how they dress/look.

    I worry for the future husband of this Bearmaniac.  I mean if she is going for the mud mask look now on public video, heaven help the future Mr. Blunt Delivery. 

    Click here to see the video on her blog in full color.   And while you are there, ask her why she doesn’t use the mud on her forehead or upper lip.  She loves those questions.

  • 1000th Twitter Follower

    So I hit my 1000th Twitter Follower a few weeks back.  In twitter terms that really means I probably hit 200 legitimate followers once you dump out the pornbots and the “social media experts.”

    As I noticed I was getting near, I decided to make a contest where I promised a caricature to the 1000th Twitter follower.  Oh you aren’t following me on Twitter yet and missed out.  Now whose fault is that?  Follow me.

    Anyway, I was happy to report that number 1000 is an actual person.  And like 1/2 my readership outside the United States, resides in the UK.  So congratulations Robin, you were number 1000.

    Robin Miller

    Not only is Robin a real person but he is also somewhat of a philanthropist.  He spends many waking hours involved in walks, marathons, and ebay auctions all to raise money for the  Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.  Great Ormond is famous for being given the rights to the play Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie.  So check out Robin on Twitter and one his website, Twelveby12 and tell him I said hi.

    Oh…and his caricature.

    Robin Miller Caricature

  • Editorial Cartoon: Gaddafi the Martyr

    Editorial Cartoon - Gaddafi

    Gaddafi claims he will go out a martyr.  Too bad he has put the people of Libya in the way of someone fulfilling his “destiny”.