Tag: cartoon

  • Editorial Cartoon: Tracy Jones and Scott Sloan

    Editorial Cartoon: Tracey Jones and Scott Sloan

    It’s been a while since I have done an editorial cartoon with a local flair.  Tracy Jones  and Scott Sloan do an afternoon talk show on 700WLW in Cincinnati.  Tracy played professional baseball for 5 years (on five different teams).  Taking nothing away from that accomplishment, Tracy (tongue in cheek) is always telling Sloan that he doesn’t understand:

    • Professional Baseball Players
    • Any professional or college athlete
    • Celebrities
    • Pretty much anything else

    …because Scott “Never played the Game”  

    Recently they have been discussing how Cincinnati Red’s pitcher Mike Leake was arrested for shoplifting.  Leake’s actually bought some shirts and went to exchange them.  Rather than asking for a salesperson’s help, he decided he didn’t have time as he was late getting to the ballpark.  So he exchanged his shirts by putting back his previously purchased ones and tore tags off the ones he wanted, put them back in his bag and walked out the door.

    Tracy of course said the rest of us wouldn’t understand how a professional ballplayer doesn’t have the time to wait around for sales clerks to wait on them.  Scott responded that the rest of us know better than to think we are entitled to make up our own rules.

    Anyone ever come across someone who was “entitled” to not follow the rules because of their position or celebrity?  Or, know of someone who was a “expert” in one field that thinks they know everything about every other field?

    *** UPDATE ****
    Scott emailed me to say that he loved the cartoon and has posted it on his blog.

  • Matzah Ball Cartooon

    Matzah Ball Cartoon

    Happy Passover to my Jewish friends.  This Matzah (Matza, Matzo…damn how do you spell it?) Ball Cartoon was inspired by a conversation I had with a friend.  His girlfriend is Jewish and he went to her house for Passover seder.  He said he really loved the Matzah Ball soup.  I asked him if he knew whether or not they cut the balls off the matzah before or after killing it in the wild.  He looked at me confused for a minute.

    I also made this image.  Thoughts on whether I should put it on a t-shirt?

    I got your Matzah Balls right here

  • Webcomics: What’s Cooking II

    Monkey Bread Recipe from Bearman Cartoons

    So back in October I spoke about a project called Webcomics: What’s Cooking.    In it I told you

    …long time Beartoons supporter Byron Wilkins of 1977 the Comic has teamed up with Kurt Sasso of TGT Webcomics  for a cause near to my heart – Fighting Hunger.  They have collected food related cartoons and recipes from various artists and are in the process of putting them together a cookbook collection.   The proceeds of the book will support Food Banks in the United States and Canada.

    I am not in the book but I promised those who asked that I would publish my recipe once the book was in print.  My Monkey Bread Recipe is the best you will find out there.  Some people call it “Pull Apart Cake” but Monkey Bread has a better ring to it.

    Anyway, I got my copy this past week and love it.  Regulars here including George Ford (Addanac City) and Dr. Carlo Jose San Juan (Callous Comics) are in there with great entries. 

    But I have to say the two that made me laugh the most was Dave Reddick of Legend of Bill and our own Aidan Casserly of Scapula.   Bill is a Barbarian so Dave’s recipe was “Big Barbarian Burgers”  First ingredient – “Beef”.  Second ingredient “Beef”.  Third ingredient – “Beef”.  Just like a real Barbarian.  And Aidan had Scapula performing community service by teaching us all how to make a pot of coffee.

    So order your own copy and support the hungry.

  • George Ford Caricature

    George Ford Caricature from Bearman Cartoons

    Source:

    George Ford of Addanac City

    So after I posted the caricature I did for my 1000th Twitter follower, my good friend George of Addanac City was bitching, moaning, pleading, begging, wondering when I might finally get around to doing a caricature of him.  So I was playing around on my ipad and did a little sketch that I sent to him.  I told him to be patient and I would finish it soon enough.

    Is George patient.  NO!  Go see how he tortured my work trying to color it himself.   Didn’t color in the mustache, half an eyebrow not filled it.  But of course he went overtime on the background. 

    Anyway, I finally finished it (I kept his theme for the background).  And now that it is finished, I realized that he and his character Hank have the same eyes.

  • Lambert goes Gaga Cartoon

    Adam Lambert goes Lady Gaga Cartoon

    So it seems there is another story of did he or didn’t he.  It seems Lady Gaga was having a private birthday bash and American Idol runner up Adam Lambert showed up with an actually invited guest.  Based on a tip, Hollywood loud mouth gossip columnist Perez Hilton states Adam showed up drunk, jumped around like an animal, punched a hole in the ceiling and tried to smash cake in Gaga’s face.  All leading up to her requesting security remove him from the premises.

    Whether or not she was the one who had security do it or not is under question.  However, if I owned a bar and a drunk ass starting destroying the place, I wouldn’t wait for someone else to ask me to kick him out; he would have been gone quick.

    Now for those not familiar with Gaga’s stunts and thus the references above, let me help.   She showed up to the Grammy’s in an egg, wore a meat suit to the VMAs, had a coke can in her hair for the video Telephone (I thought a phone in her head was funnier).  Now as far as the flipper, I haven’t seen that but just wait.

  • Giving Up After Marriage (Cartoon)

    Give Up After Marriage Cartoon

    This cartoon was inspired by Sunday’s post regarding the article that said people who have sex or exercise infrequently are more prone to heart attacks.  Of course in Sunday’s toon, I poke fun at the guy.  But I am an equal opportunity offender so thought it was the ladies turn.

    The one thing I constantly tell my wife in the years since we got married is:

    Thank you for not giving up!

    I mean how many women (and men) nab their significant other and after the “I do’s” just stop trying.  Stop taking care of themselves, stop being interested in what the other has to say, and in the case above stop caring whether or not they will scare the crap out of their spouse by how they dress/look.

    I worry for the future husband of this Bearmaniac.  I mean if she is going for the mud mask look now on public video, heaven help the future Mr. Blunt Delivery. 

    Click here to see the video on her blog in full color.   And while you are there, ask her why she doesn’t use the mud on her forehead or upper lip.  She loves those questions.

  • Editorial Cartoon: Libya

    Editorial Cartoon: Libya

    Up until this past weekend, some conservatives have been upset that the United States hasn’t been more proactive militarily with the issues in Libya.   While I abhor the things Ghadafi is doing to his people, why does the responsibility to be the world police always rest on the United States.

    Whenever there is military action needed around the world, the United States is always seen as the big bad aggressor in foreign affairs while the UN tends to get bound in ineffective resolutions.  The US is blamed for interfering in affairs of other countries and blamed if they don’t .  As my dad used to say “You are damned if you do and damned if you don’t”.

    So for once, the U.S. has decided to take a back seat to the United Nations, fully supporting the efforts but not taking the lead.  I, for one, support that tact.  They have commited fully to the military operation of a no fly zone while allowing Britain and France to take the lead on the resolution.

    Now I am sure I will get an earful from my Australian friends but let’s contrast this with the Australian foreign minister, Kevin Rudd.  Like some American Conservatives, Rudd was blaming the G8 nations for inaction yet after the UN Resolution said that there would be no Australian military assistance (though he did pledge humanitarian aid).

    The world doesn’t need any more armchair quarterbacks.  (Ok except for me)

  • Editorial Cartoon: Gaddafi the Martyr

    Editorial Cartoon - Gaddafi

    Gaddafi claims he will go out a martyr.  Too bad he has put the people of Libya in the way of someone fulfilling his “destiny”.

  • Editorial Cartoon: Charlie Sheen

    Editorial Cartoon: Charlie Sheen

    Not much needs to be added to this editorial cartoon on Charlie Sheen.  Except I do wonder after he caused Two and a Half Men to end production because of his actions, will this also mean he loses his Hanes endorsement deal.  I hope those are Hanes he is sporting in the picture above.

  • Editorial Cartoon: Bieber Fever

    Editorial Cartoon - Justin Bieber Fan

    So it seems a few Belieber’s (Justin Bieber fans) are running amok because their demigod did not win the Best New Artist award at the Grammys (see here for the story and here for 10 of the vilest tweets against Esperanza I could ever read).

    Now maybe there is a legitimate gripe that she shouldn’t have even been considered in the category.  However, how long and at what level does an artist have to be on the scene to no longer be considered new.  If new to the previous year, then Justin himself wouldn’t have been eligible since his first album hit in 2009.  And there has been a precedent set anyway.  Back in 1999, Lauryn Hill won after going solo but was already established as part of the Fugees (and Sister Act II).

    This isn’t American Idol.  It is not a popularity contest. 

    You aren’t in seeking reform in the Middle East.  This decision doesn’t truly affect your life in any meaningful way.

    Justin isn’t going to marry you.  So please have some decorum.

    And while you are disappointed with his loss as a fan, do you really need to threaten someone who had nothing to do with any of the decisions in the first place?  Why don’t you take a lesson from your idol and be gracious in your loss?