Tag: Bearman

  • Is someone trying to tell me to exercise and quit eating junk food?

     I admit, I am a lazy person. Sure I hold down a job and do cartooning on the side. But overall I am lazy. I workout only about once a week (sometimes more) and have to really focus to make better food choices.

    Lately it seems that the world is against me (or at least trying to push me in the direction of making better life choices).

    First it was Olympia. They used to sell this great Caller ID Globe at Brookstone. I can sit on my couch and see who is calling from across the room and decide whether that person was worth getting off my ass for.

    InfoGlobe imageImage from www.brookstone.com

    Well it has come time to replace my 5 year old one because the display has gone bad.  Much to my surprise Brookstone no longer carries it and they said the manufacturer has stopped making it.  Ebay still has a few for over $70.  Can’t someone else work this technology?

    In my quest to eat better (notice I said better not great) I started eating Doritos Light a few years ago. 

    Image from www.Olestra.com

    Also known in some circles as  Poopie Chips b/c they are made with Olestra, I never had intestinal problems eating them.  Honestly I think that whole myth was started because some guy with diarrhea anyway ended up in the test group.  Besides I was hoping for them to have an adverse affect on me figuring I could end up losing a few pounds.   Anyway, I noticed about a year ago that Kroger stopped carrying them.  Typical for Kroger to stop carrying a product I use forcing me to go elsewhere, I went directly to Frito-Lay’s website to find out who carries them.  NO ONE.  They discontinued them and when I spoke to a representative they said that they still had Baked Doritos…uhhh YUCK.   Tastes like cheese flavored cardboard.

    So recently Tostitos Gold has been on the shopping list.  Forget the calorie jump, they taste good.  Now it looks like Frito Lay has done it to me again.  Launched with much fanfare six years ago, they are no longer on the shelf.  A quick review of the Frito-Lay website, doesn’t include them in the list anymore.

    Am I the only one with a kiss of death on products?  Anything you loved that is no longer available?  Maybe I should farm myself out to companies to start using their competitors products.  I could be like the “Cooler” for the retail industry.

  • Bearman Cartoon: Who Stole the McNuggets

    Usually I only do 1-2 toons a week but this one was so timely, it couldn’t wait. I think this has to be one of my favorite editorial cartoons in a while. I love the story of the woman calling 911 three times because McDonalds wouldn’t give her money back when they were out of McNuggets. Now I don’t blame the woman for being pissed but come on…THREE TIMES.

    This tells me that we haven’t done a good enough job advancing the use of 311…the non emergency three-digit number to contact the police.

    But did they have to drag Ronald into all this.

    3 5 09 Bearman Cartoon McDonald McNuggets copy

  • 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.

    ******
    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

  • The Daily Elephant Blog

    Going to be away from the computer this week so no cartoons. Decided to give another shout out to a blog that I have come to enjoy. I found it as part of the blog roll at unemployeddad cartoon website.  Its called the Daily Elephant and it is written by a Chicagoan named Brit (may be short for Britney, Brittany, Britain, Encyclopedia Britannica…not sure).

    Honestly, I am not sure what her blog is about…and apparently she doesn’t either (this blog really has no clear point or agenda”).  But that’s the fun in it.  From What Not to Buy for Valentines Day to talking up some “friend” of hers named Kenny, which we are all waiting for that day when she posts that she slept with Kenny in a senseless state of drunkenness.

    Anyway…check it out (the four of you who come by my blog).

  • 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

  • Drawing Barack Obama Cartoon Part 2

    So the other day I wrote about trying to draw Barack Obama in cartoon form for future editorial cartoons.

    I decided to scan just two of the many pages of doodles. None of them I was happy with but still a work in progress.

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  • Free Font of your own Handwriting

    Thanks to this great tip at www.drawn.ca, there is a online tool called YourFonts.com where you can create a font of your own handwriting.

    A great tool, especially for cartoonists who do all/most of their work on the computer. All you need to do is go to the website (or click on this image)

    YourFonts.com Online Font Generator

    The process is easy:

    • Print the Template
    • Fill it out
    • Scan it and Upload it
    • Put the finished product in your Fonts folder.

    Two things to think about.   One, I think I would have better results to my liking if I found a medium point versus a fine point pen. Second, pay attention to the hash marks so you keep your lettering the same size. The first time I tried it, I didn’t pay enough attention to that and when I typed a sentence, it looked like a rollercoaster.

    So introducing the Bearman Font:

    Bearman Cartoon Font created at YourFonts.com
    Bearman Cartoon Font created at YourFonts.com

  • 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