Tag: Beggar

  • Movember

    Movember

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    Yes dear friends it is Movember, so time to celebrate with a cartoon of bearded fact proportions.   For the uniformed, Movember is a play on Mustache and November.  Many non folically challenged men grow a mustache to raise awareness about men’s heath issues and more specifically prostate cancer.  That or it is an excuse to grow a cheesy 70’s porn mustache while defending yourself from angry wives/girlfriends by claiming it is for a good cause.  In my house there is either shaved or beard.  No stache, no goatee, no mutton chops allowed or the wife threatens to cut off all her hair.

    Which brings us to today’s hairy fact.   Peter the Great of Russia was so enamored with Western Culture that he tried all he could to get the backwards countrymen to do as the Europeans do.  So in 1698 he passed a law that taxed any man who wanted to keep his facial hair.  This fattened the government coffers so Peter could spend more time away from Russia and caused a majority of poor Russian men to shave.  Win Win for Peter.

    So I imagine like today’s guys on the corner holding up the “honest sign” stating they need “Beer Money”, the men of Old Mother Russia begged for some “Beard Money”

    Also credit to the artist who created the tree brushes I used in this post.

  • Social Media Pariah

    Social Media Pariah Cartoon by Bearman Cartoons

    I have said before that as an artist, it can be frustrating to spend several hours on a piece of work that gets ignored or little attention on social media but I can toss up a picture of my cat and it get tons of attention.   So today’s cartoon is another homage to that.

    I asked my google plus followers “what trending topic that consistently pops up do you just not get?”  Of course I got many but the ones that popped up most were “Cats, Justin Bieber, and Dr. Who.”   I get cats and honestly that is the only social media aspect that my wife is remotely interested in and I am guilty of giving into her demands to post our cats on occasion   Luckily for me the people I follow are not Justin Bieber obsessed however I constantly see his name as a trending topic.   Dr. Who is the one I don’t get the fan love about.  I watched it as a kid when we didn’t have cable and it was the only thing on the 5 channels we got.  I even tried it again as an adult.  Just can’t get into it.

    What about you?  Any trending topics you find consistently on social media that you don’t get?   Oh and first person to name the character on the wanted poster wins…..NOTHING.