And the Caption Contest Winner is – ME!! And all of you who agreed with me that cats getting attention on social media is the bane of existence for someone posting something they actually spent time on.
And the inspiration was this picture of our cats, playing on the ipad with their favorite app Games for Cats.
Today’s cartoon is not, I repeat NOT based on my life. I have a full head of green hair. Rather it was told to me by a friend who luckily has the kind of head that can pull off baldness.
I was out with the friend who told me this last night and was telling him I was going to post it. My wife said “Well Bearman doesn’t check out women’s boobs.” I replied “Well I guess I am sly enough that YOU don’t notice”
Former Governor and current GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney turned 65 this week proclaiming that he would not enroll for Social Security payments or Medicare.
For those unfamiliar, AARP is an organization in the States that has huge interest group focusing on those above 50 on age related issues. It was formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons. Historically in the U.S. the retirement age has been 65 though you can get your AARP card which offers discounts on travel, restaurants etc long before that age. In fact I knew a 30 year old once who had her card. I guess all you need to do is send in your money and boom, there it is.
Oh and Denny’s is a national chain of restaurants that specializes in breakfast food.
The Friggin Loon and BSchooled both are tired of my WWE Wrestling Caricatures so they put in a request for a Tori Spelling one. Here you go ladies.
I won’t be around much for the next week after today so I’ll miss commenting elsewhere and probably here too. Try to behave without me.
Tim Burton is remaking Frankenweenie. Frankenweenie was originally a short film that he did in 1984. Well he is updating it to a full length feature film.
Image: Wired MagazineI am sorry but that has to be the most unfortunate name for a movie. Somehow I would have thought that an adult film would be named that.
Ah the lovely internet troll. Anyone that blogs or posts regularly somewhere online has run across this person at least once. Some of you probably ARE the troll. I don’t judge. haha. So give us your best troll story.
This is kind of a search engine experiment. Last year I posted a sign of the wrestler Sheamus. Today if you do a google image search of “Sheamus Sign“, guess whose image pops up first? So while there are cartoons of internet trolls, it would be interesting to see if I could get this one to page one. There are a couple other phrases that people use to find my site so I may do cartoons of those in the future. Any you would like to see?
Ok so I am over a week late to wish my Aussie friends a Happy Australia Day but other posts came up first. Long time Bearmaniacs might remember a similar cartoon that I did in 2009 (see post here). In that post it was all about how Aussie men confessed to not changing their undies for days and the fact that, like their American Brothers, are an obese bunch.
Someone on G+ found it and linked to it and then Dunken Bliths used his magic to animate and change the word balloon just in time for Australia Day.
For the uniformed what we call Speedos are known as Budgy Smugglers in Australia. A Budgie is a small parrot native to Australia and the look of some guy wearing this bathing suit is like someone smuggling a Budgie in their pants. Some guys decided to make a brand called Budgy Smugglers (mispelling Budgie but not wanting to change it).
I’ve seen some things floating around the web describing the steps for people to figure out their Blues Singer name. We never played that game but we did ask people their Porn Star Name. Plus when else am I going to be able to fit a caricature of Adult Film star legend Ron Jeremy into a cartoon post. So fess up Bearmaniacs….what is yours?
Oh and someone pointed out that this might be security answers on websites and you may so your alternative is to tell us your Middle Name and the First Car you Drove.
The guys at Obscure Gentlemen webcomic actually cared what I have to say. Go check out my interview with them. Aidan, George and Tony better go because I give you shout outs.
DC Entertainment (aka DC Comics) has decided to step up for aid to Africa with their We Can Be Heroes Campaign. Essentially they are putting the Justice League Superheroes (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc.) up front to drive awareness and raise money for famine relief in the Horn of Africa.
Better still they are matching funding dollar for dollar for the first $1 million.
And while this isn’t time for my typical charity drive, I am doing a special one off this week on Google Plus. For those on Google Plus who want to help, click here to see my post there, and then share it. For every share of that post I get this week, I’ll donate $1 up to $500 total.
This cartoon was inspired by my attempts over the last 4 months to do more caricature work. If you get a caricature done by me or someone else there are several reactions you may have.
I have run the gamut of reactions to my own work, though I have only had one person actually tell me number four (yet more probably felt that way). I had my wife, and biggest critic, look over the work and she said “Yeah it looks like her, she just isn’t that attractive.” I find that women are way more sensitive to you pointing out prominent characteristics in caricature. I tend to go more realistic versus cartoony as I do with men.
A piece of advice I got from Jerry Dowling, former Cincinnati Enquirer editorial cartoonist and caricature artist, is that you should over emphasize the size of women’s eyes…they seem to like that. He may or may not have said something about boob size too, I can’t remember.
He related a story of live drawing a caricature of a woman as her husband was looking over his shoulder. Suddenly, her husband, who obviously thought the drawing wasn’t pretty enough, said “Don’t you know she is a former Beauty Queen.” To which Jerry handed him his pen and said “Great, so you finish up the drawing”