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Editorial Cartoon: Mad Libs Creator Dies

Today’s editorial cartoon is a salute to one Leonard Stern, creator of the world famous Mad Libs, who passed away last week. For anyone that grew up in the 70’s and 80’s, it was because of Leonard that long family car trips were bearable (and allowed my father not to have to “pull over this car” because we were acting up again).

Mad Libs led the way for those activity books with the orange pen that the answer appeared when you colored in the book. I can’t remember what they called them.

So I created a Mad Lib of my own below. Fill in the words and hit “Go Mad”, then copy and paste your story in the comments section.

A Bloggers Tale

VERB ENDING IN -ING

NOUN

VERB ENDING IN -ING

TYPE OF BUILDING

VERB PAST TENSE

NOUN

NAME OF A CITY

June 15, 2011
Every Damned Time Reddit (another viewpoint)

This is a response cartoon of sorts. The other day I was trolling through Reddit. For the uninformed, Reddit is a social news site, where people can upload pics, news, cartoons etc. Reddit users can upvote or downvote any entry. The little white guy with the orange eyes is the reddit mascot.

When I remember, if something strikes me while I am surfing the web, I will post it to Reddit and admitedly (while not everything) I will post some of my own stuff (probably because I live with a bunch of lazy readers who never noticed the damn share this buttons at the bottom of every post..haha you know I love you). I am always amazed at the things that get upvoted and the things that get downvoted both of what I post and what others do. Sometimes, I am “this is so f-ing stupid. Why is it getting so many upvotes?” And other times “This is amazing. Who are these dumbasses downvoting it?” So I can never figure out fully what people would be interested in.

So the other day I was going through Reddit and found a post titled “Every Damned Time, Reddit” by a deviantart illustrator that goes by FindChaos. (Click on his link to find a full size version of the cartoon)

So as you can see FindChaos finds Reddit so fun to play with forcing him to keep coming back again and again, while I tend to get beat to shit every time and still find my way back there. Is there a battered redditors support group??

June 12, 2011
IGOR

Don’t mind me. These two versions of Igor (as employee and entrepreneur) are just some visual concepts of a story that I am thinking of doing. I think it is now on item number 204 of things I want to get done.

June 8, 2011
Editorial Cartoon: Jack Kevorkian

Today’s editorial cartoon was inspired by the life and death of the doctor known as “Dr Death”: Jack Kevorkian. For those unfamiliar with the name, Jack was a doctor who brought the topic of physician assisted suicide to the forefront when he used his position to aid terminally ill patients end their life before whatever disease they had ravaged their mind or body. Proponents say he let people die with dignity. Yet even those who are for physician assisted suicide, said that Jack should NOT be the poster child for HOW to best go about it. According to this NY Times article, “He did not appear to screen patients to determine whether they were actually close to death, and he seemed to make no efforts to get counseling for those who might have wanted to live longer.”

Oh and did I mention in his free time, he was a painter?

This one is called “Very Still Life” (image from the Ariana Gallery). See more of his work and probably now overpriced prints at the Ariana Gallery

June 5, 2011
Hallmark Fail

INSIDE: I love you Stinky!!

So I figure if bschooled and I are going into the greeting card business that I should at least get some experience under my belt first. On facebook I stumbled upon the Hallmark Greeting Card Contest page. Their most recent contest had to do with food. You needed to make a Birthday or Love card that incorporated food in some way.

So this was my entry. And it failed. Maybe it was too gross for Hallmark but my wife said she would buy it so at least I have one. Or maybe it has been done before but I don’t think so.

For those who have no idea what the joke is, either you are of the 50% of the population who has pee that doesn’t smell after eating asparagus, you don’t eat asparagus, or you really smell and don’t know it.

Read more on why your pee smells after eating asparagus on the Straight Dope.

May 29, 2011
Bearman Cartoon: Bad Dog

Today’s cartoon was inspired by a challenge by our friend Jillsy Girl to do a post inspired by childhood memories.

I remember my dad liking some crap that the rest of us couldn’t stand, yet we had to eat it because whatever mom made for dinner you had to eat. Somehow my wife’s mom always let her have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches if she didn’t like what was for dinner. Not in my house. You had to take some of EVERYTHING…and eat it.

Well that was the plan anyway. Thanks to our good old dog, I didn’t have to worry about eating all my liver or tongue. Yes, my family was served cow tongue on occasion. You know when you rush in from playing outside and are excited to see what is for dinner only to see a giant cow tongue boiling in water that it’s not a good night. I can remember seeing the ridges on the tongue floating in the water. Hated the stuff. But the dog loved it. It was a sly motion that you stuck the food in your mouth, coughed into your hand as you spit out the meat and then slowly reached under the table to the awaiting jaws of the beast.

Still, I could never get the fucking dog to eat my brussel sprouts.

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May 25, 2011
Pop Culture Cartoon: Ashton Kutcher on 2 1/2 Men

So Ashton Kutcher has been added to replace Charlie Sheen on the popular Two and a Half Men series. According to reports, he will be given his own character versus taking the role Charlie played.

I don’t watch the show but obviously there are tons of people who do. Anyone planning to start or stop watching because of the switch?

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May 15, 2011
Dialogue Free Comics Day

May 13 is Dialogue Free Comics Day. It was started last year by Noel Curry of DJBogtrotter. I of course couldn’t wait.

Every year so many people work hard to get into shape for Marathon season. Sadly, each year I hear reports of someone suffering a heart attack on the route. So of course I had to think of it in terms of a pompous exercise freak that looks down on those not quite in shape.

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May 11, 2011
Editorial Cartoon: Why I pay Taxes

This editorial cartoon was inspired by an article that I can’t find anymore. I was in Kiplingers, Fortune, Money, Forbes or one of those fancy business magazines. It came out around the time that people were complaining about GE not paying any taxes and it had to do with how CEO’s of major companies have been legally avoiding the taxman through various tax shelters. Anyone who finds that article, let me know.

These are guys that can afford to have full time accountants and finance people figuring out ways to work the loop holes of the tax system to their advantage. Don’t get me wrong, I am not a fan of forking over a larger portion of my paycheck to taxes either. But if it came down to raising my taxes or closing some loopholes that the uber rich can take advantage of…which one do you think I would prefer?

I am not one who thinks we shouldn’t pay taxes. I just think we need better prioritization of the spending of our tax dollars and better controls of out of line politicians.

On the other hand, I agree with conservatives who don’t want the Obama administration to raise taxes on families in the $250,000 range. All too many of those are entrepreneurs with small businesses. But someone in the $500,000+ range, go hire a finance guy to find the latest loophole.

Going to be out of loop for the next few days so talk amongst yourselves, tweet or stumble this if you want, and don’t forget to support the charity challenge.

May 8, 2011
Editorial Cartoon: Osama Dead

Can anyone tell me what joke was repeated over and over on Sunday night? If you said “Donald Trump is demanding to see Bin Laden’s Death Certificate” you would be right. Go see for yourself.

In fact, the first time I saw the joke, I thought it would make a cute editorial cartoon. By the 20th time I saw it, I thought it was a little overdone. I guess that didn’t stop these editorial cartoonists.

The basis of the joke (for the uninformed) is that Donald Trump is toying with running for President. So his first public act of late has been to join the birthers in their efforts to say that President Barack Obama wasn’t actually born in Hawaii so he shouldn’t have been eligible to be President. Trump had been calling for Obama’s Birth Certificate. Of course when Obama did share it, Trump just took credit for being able to put that rumor to rest and allow the country to move on. Ever the opportunist.

So I thought I would take the joke (which you see in panel one) and go a slightly different route for the punchline. Did I use an outdated reference with the title “Weekend at Donalds”???

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May 4, 2011