Tag: Bearman cartoons

  • Battery Hog Tshirt

    Battery-Hog-Version-2

    So you know what I did last night.  I drew.  Not because I had to or felt an obligation to but because I wanted to.  One of the things I wanted to do was beef up my tshirt shop and start doing more designs.

    This Battery Hog was inspired by apps like Facebook and Google Plus which seem to drain the hell out of my cell phone battery.  So I thought it would be fun to make an iphone or android case that had this image.   But I figured there are a bunch of “battery hogs”  Slap the shirt on an infant who drains you.  Slap it on your spouse who we KNOW drains you.  Get them on a bunch of stuff available here.

    See and you all thought I was giving up completely.

     

  • The End?

    Given that Duncan nominated me for a Versatile Blogger Award the other day, I find the timing ironic to this post I have been planning all week.   Well first let me tell you seven things about myself as required of me to accept this honor.

    1. I took a stand up comedy class several years ago.  The final required us to do a 10 minute set in front of a live audience.  I consistently speak in front of small groups of 15-30 people and have given presentations in front of groups as large as 300.   That I had no problem doing.  HOWEVER, put me at a cocktail party with a bunch of people I don’t know in a non business setting and I am a wallflower.
    2. I have been posting cartoons online since 2006.  First on someone else’s site and since 2008 on my own.
    3. I am in awe every day of the talented and funny people that consistently make their way over here to comment.
    4. In the last 3 years I have not missed a my self imposed schedule of posting every Sunday and Wednesday.  (Something keen observers will notice I broke my streak when I didn’t post this past Sunday)
    5. I am constantly jealous of those who can draw better than I.
    6. It takes me an hour to visit everyone’s blog in my RSS reader and comment EACH DAY.  Many times I eat lunch at my desk and pour through.  Other times I am doing it after work.
    7. I feel like the great and powerful OZ.   Because of the engagement I get on my site, people assume I get tons of traffic.   The reality is that I average about 400-600 hits a day.   The same amount as I had 3 years ago.

    So what are you trying to tell us??

    Well work (my real job) has been busier than ever.  Twice in the last four months (this week included) I ended up on antibiotics for sinus infections/flu because of running myself ragged.   Additionally, I have been wanting to take some classes, wanting to revamp the outdated look of this site, wanting to write a book, wanting to get better at caricaturing and do more of it, wanting to develop a game idea I have had.   All of which has been taking a back seat to my self imposed posting schedule and desire to comment on everything my regulars post as well.

    So are you done?

    In short, NO!.  However, there are going to be some changes to this blog and to what I do.   First I am no longer posting on any sort of schedule.   When I am inspired I will post.   That means I might not post for several weeks or I might post 3 times in a week.  All depends.  Second, while I truly love you all, I will not be making the rounds to other blogs nearly as much as I have in the past.  I need to force myself to take on some of the other things on my list.   It won’t mean I am going away, just not as big of a presence.  If you want me to see your stuff…post on Google Plus.  That is easy for me to check in during grocery store line waits or in the car when the wife is driving.  Going from blog to blog on a phone is hard.

    I hope to share with you my progress in my endeavors.  I have accomplished what I wanted with this site for now.  It is time to take it in some new directions.  Hope you will come around periodically to check it out.

    Thanks

  • Etch-A-Sketch Memorial

    Bearman-Cartoon-André-Cassagnes-Etch-A-Sketch

    Etch-A-Sketch inventor Andre’ Cassagnes passed away last month.   I never could get that damn thing to work well.

  • Customer Service Phone Trees

    Customer Service Phone Trees Cartoon by Bearman Cartoons

    Today’s cartoon highlights one of my biggest process pet peeves when it comes to customer service.  In order to get to a live operator, the phone tree forces you to enter your customer id number or your telephone number.   Customer ID’s are worse because no one has them memorized.

    So after entering said number, you wait on hold, and when finally connected to a live agent they force you to repeat the number.  What’s up with that?

    Everyone has good and bad experiences with customer service reps but I am interested to know if there are any customer service policies/processes that you find irritating that are outside the control of the reps themselves.

  • WWE 3MB AKA Ginger Mac-Hal

    3MB WWE Ginger Mac-Hal by Bearman Cartoons

     

    Today’s cartoon poster once again is for the wrestling fans out there.  I know many of my regular readers aren’t into wrestling but as I have said before I find it funny that people will trace my poster images and I will see them on live WWE events in the crowd.   Now if only the WWE would start paying me to put my work on their tshirts.  Well, let’s see if my mocking name I titled this will catch on as well.

    The three men you see in the image above are three wrestlers.  Heath Slater, Drew McIntyre, and Jinder Mahal.  Collectively they are known in the WWE as 3MB (short for three man band).   I prefer the new name I came up with “Ginger Mac-Hal” which plays on Jinder Mahal’s name.

    This actually took me longer than I thought it would in my head.  Trying to capture someone’s likeness without their face is tough.

    Here they are in image shots from wwe.com for comparison.

    3MB WWE Image

     

    For any wrestling fans that want my image as a wallpaper, contact me or comment on the size you would like and I’ll try to make it happen.

    Oh and shout out to TK for his great tutorials and images which I used for the background of the poster.

  • How to Operate a Dual Flush Toilet

    Bearman Cartoon How to Operate a Dual Flush ToiletYou would think today’s cartoon has nothing to do with Australia.  But you would be wrong.  In an effort to conserve water, dual flush toilets have been installed in a whole bunch of places including all the hotels we stayed in.  Some, unfortunately, didn’t work as well as others.

    For the uninformed, a dual flush toilet has two buttons.  One that is a half flush for liquids and the other a full flush for solids.  The problem is that in several situations the half flush wasn’t enough to actually flush everything down so it required another push.   Usually the second push was the full flush button just to ensure there was no yellow in the bowl.   So instead of using half the amount of water to flush, you end up using 50% more than a typical sing flush toilet.

    Or maybe it was just operator error.

     

  • Australian Beer Tastes Like Piss

    Bearman Cartoons Australian Beer Tastes Like Piss

     

    Today’s cartoon is an homage to the beer of Australia.   In America we get Foster’s as pretty much the only import of Australian beers.  You know the commercial  “Fosters, Australian for Beer.”  However, you won’t find it anywhere in Australia and if you ask an Aussie, they will tell you that Fosters is crap they can and market to foreigners (typically “piss” is used in the sentence as well.

    Now I am not a beer connoisseur like another in our travel party.  I like pilsner and lagers.  Don’t like wheat beer, don’t like ales, don’t like Guiness.   Hell most of the time a Miller Lite is good enough for me (got to keep my figure you know).   The beer whiz in the party thought all Australian beer tasted like piss.  Compared to the microbrews all over the United States, it definitely was a much weaker taste.   And trust me we went all over.   In fact, here is a little taste of what beers I drank.

    Australia BeersTooheys and James Boags (OK I know it is Tasmania not Australia) were probably my favorites.   Four X was one my least favorite though it is the most popular beer there.

    Sadly there was one Australian Beer that I didn’t get to try… PISS BEER.

    From their website:

    Aussies have been on the piss, getting pissed, drinking piss, drinking more piss and, most definitely, taking the piss for the past two hundred years.  The amazing thing is none of us thought to bottle it earlier. (Too busy getting pissed, probably.)

     

     

  • Zombie Bearman

    Byron Rempel Zombie Bearman CartoonsWe interrupt Australia cartoons to show you the latest Zombie from Byron Rempel…..Bearman Cartoons!  Yep me (well my green haired personification).  And even better he recorded the process.  Check it out.

    Check out Byron’s Etsy Shop and his Google+ Profile to find out how to commission him to Zombify you.

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    Another amazing Google Plus Caricature artist has released a book. Alex Gallego’s book “The Art of Alex Gallego” is now available.  Check it out.

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    Finally, in honor of Roland Perez’ 8th (yes I said 8th) child being born, I did a guest cartoon for him at Metal Jaw Comics .

  • Wombat Facts

    Wombat FactsToday’s cartoon lesson on Australia, takes us to discuss the lesser popular marsupial, the wombat.

    Interesting that indeed wombats poop square shaped pellets.  They are practically blind and use their scent to find each other (no wonder Binky doesn’t bathe) so their square poop won’t fall off the log or other areas they drop it.  And because they don’t process the vegetation they eat very well, someone decided they would make a good source of paper fiber.

    For those who don’t recognize the glass wearing animal in the lower right, that is Binky a Wombie from Peter Marinacci’s webcomic Wombania.  He says that wombies are genetically altered more intelligent wombats.  Whenever Peter posts a cartoon with Binky I tend to act like I don’t like him.  And Binky returns the favor if you have ever read the comments on my posts.

    So yes.  The first ugly cousin of the cute koala are wombats/wombies.   Well really just Binky (the rest of the wombies are cute).

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  • Australian Recycling Efforts

    Bearman Cartoons Recycling efforts in AustraliaSo the story I am told is that there was a Kangaroo farmer in Australia.  Of course you could find use for Kangaroo pelt and meat but what about all the by product?   So he decided to take the kangaroo balls and make Kangaroo Scrotum Bottle Openers.  Now he is a multimillionaire.

    Don’t believe they exist?  Well my friends take a gander.

    Kangaroo Scrotum Bottle Opener via Bearman Cartoons

    Imagine if this guy got rich off this what the rest of us might come up with to give new “life” to typically discarded things.  Ideas?