Free Caricature

That’s right, it is back. You can win a digital caricature of you, a friend, your dog or your favorite celebrity.   This is an exclusive contest for those following Beartoons on Facebook.  Don’t worry for those of you who don’t have Facebook, I will be doing other contests soon.

Here are the guidelines:

• Go to the Beartoons Facebook Page and hit the Like Button
• Add a comment there that you want to be included in the contest
• Share the contest with your Facebook friends for an additional entry.  Let me know in the FB comments
• Enter by Midnight Tuesday July 5.
• Winner will get a free digital version of their caricature.  Use it as a gravatar, on facebook or however you would like.

Entrants must allow me to use one of their source pictures in a blog post to show the results and as always my disclaimer is there is no guarantees that you will think the finished product looks anything like you.  But that is a better guarantee (and price) than those crappy street caricature artists give.

Good luck

Hands Down the Pants

I am not really sure what it is but I have noticed over the last several years that when sitting on the couch watching TV, I have been prone to putting a hand down the front of my pants.  Not all the way mind you (or touching the package) but just enough that the palm is on the lower stomach and the fingers are in the waist band.  I find it a very comfortable position.  And this is completely separate than stratching.  No scratching involved.  My wife rags on me for it and thinks it is hilarious. 

So is this some right of passage that all men go through as they age?  Will I have the tendency to some day have an entire arm down my pants?  Fess up gentlemen.  Do you too find comfort in this position?  Ladies…thoughts?  I would ask if I am “nuts” but that might not be appropriate.

Guest Cartoon: Nate Fakes

Today’s guest cartoon comes from the one and only Nate Fakes of Break of Day Comic (please forgive him that he decided to post his comic on go comics which always tries to do pop ups) and of Nate’s Ramblings.

Now I asked Nate where he got the notion that Bearman had so much gray hair and his reply was that he blew up my avatar and my shading looked like it was actually gray hair.  This looks like a normal weekend in my neighborhood though.

BTW, if you love Break of Day but don’t want to “subscribe” to comment, do what I do and follow Break of Day on Facebook and comment there.

Thanks Nate!

Things to know when visiting Costa Rica

Normally, when I take a well deserved break from cartooning for a few weeks, I kick my heels up at home and just take a mental break from blogging/internet.  But this Christmas, we went away on a trip to Costa Rica.  I have been to Belize and Mexico but never had any intestinal issues before.  Even in Costa Rica, I kept with the experts advice to only drink the water at the hotels or bottled water.  And yet I spent more time in the bathroom than I have in the last six months combined.

But it didn’t keep me from seeing the incredible sites of Costa Rica and experiencing the extremely genuinely nice people of that country.  The only thing I missed out on doing was the zip line tour.  I didn’t want to have to crap on people from the trees as I swung by…even though I saw a few monkeys do it.

So for anyone preparing a trip to Costa Rica, I offer you the ten things I learned that I didn’t know about this wonderful country before I went.

1. They disbanded their army in 1948
2. More so than other Central American countries, Costa Ricans are mostly of  European descent.   Some sites claim that disease brought by the Spanish settlers killed off much of the indigenous population.
3. Costa Rican woman have a high self-esteem.  Which was explained to us by a guide as we passed a large woman, who may or may not have recently given birth, wearing a bikini.
4. Even in the dry season it rains (a lot).
5. You can find souvenir vendors all over the place but what they don’t sell but need to are battery operated fans and sweat towels.
6. Bob Marley must have been Costa Rican and NOT Jamaican (as evidenced by the number of Marley beach towels and tshirts for sale everywhere.
7. For a country that prides itself on tourism, it doesn’t take much pride in completing roads to get you anywhere.  If you are lucky you get a two lane paved road.  I saw one road construction worker the entire time I was there, and he was on his lunch break.
8. If you are on a antacid like Nexium, Prilosac, etc., you may be more prone to intestinal issues as the reduced acid in your stomach allows the bacteria to take hold in your stomach.
9. Due to issues with processing toilet paper in water treatment facilities, most public restrooms have a garbage can next to the toilet for you to deposit your used TP.  I thought it was surprising that it didn’t smell.  My wife said several of the women’s restrooms did.  I think men are more courteous and wrap their poopy TP nicer than the women.
10. Given the previous two points, it seems only fitting that they named their currency the COLON.

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