Oh you better watch out!!! Santa is coming!! You know he sees you when you’re sleeping and he knows when you’re awake. Sounds like the creepiest stalker I have ever heard of. So what better way to commemorate the creepiest stalker in the world than put his cartoon image on a tshirt. Who else would you trust with your Home Security System. The man NEVER sleeps. He watches you more than the government. In fact he may be a government spy.
Well tell your friends to let him know you know by buying the shirt.
This cartoon is for all the Egg Nog haters in the world including my wife who instead of calling it Elf Piss, jokingly always refers to Egg Nog as Phlegm. I, on the other hand, can’t get enough of the stuff and wonder why consumption seems to be limited only to the holiday season.
Speaking of holidays, I am taking one so there will be no updates until after the new year here and I will be absent from visiting other’s blogs for the time being. So as a bonus, Michael Pohrer of Tooned In has updated his guest cartoon he did for me in a past year. Have a safe and enjoyable Christmas and New Years and I will see you in 2014.
Sure in a Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three Spirits/Ghosts. What if the spirits that were foretold by his deceased partner Jacob Marley turned out to be alcohol? May you all have a very spirited Christmas (or whatever you celebrate).
It has been a good week. First I have sold a few of the above Merry Hanumas – Go Both Ways designs at my shop. We have a bunch of Jewish and Christian friends/family so rather than NOT send cards, I design my own. This was a concept that I never did use for our cards but thought I’d throw it up on my store for the heck of it. And several people have bought (woohoo $10 for me). And don’t tell me it should be Chrismukkah. That name sucks.
Then I find out that I won a contest over at G’s Cedars Mountain Website. I don’t recall answering correctly but I am not one to argue especially since he wrote such a nice endorsement of my own blog. Please go check it out here.
Finally, as I mentioned I have been doing some random Muggings (caricatures). One I did last week was for fellow cartoonist Jim Huntsman. He is on Google Plus and has his own site at Comic Kvetches. This was my payback
Every year in the United States, the charity organization Salvation Army has volunteers standing outside of grocery stores and retailers with a red kettle ringing their bell for patrons to donate. Sometimes I give, sometimes I don’t. There never is any rhyme or reason to when I do or don’t.
Last year I saw a client of mine out volunteering so I stood with her for ten minutes as she rang her bell. I noticed a strange phenomenon. Most of the people who made eye contact seemed to donate. However the vast majority chose not to donate and in doing would look down or away as they walked past. It was as if by looking at the volunteer as they went by they might get some sort of disease. I got to thinking that I have probably been guilty of the same thing.
So this year, I made a pledge that no matter if I was planning to donate or not that I would acknowledge every single kettler (I don’t know what they are called so that works for me) and give them a cheery “hello” ….as I then walk on by.
So my friend George over at Addanac City Cartoon has been doing a story arc about Christmas. He promised on Christmas Day to have a “gigantic” 24 panel cartoon and even posted a teaser.
Here was our back and forth on his blog:
Bearman: I have now successfully blown up your Christmas Day cartoon and posted it early on my site. HA HA HA.. I feel like the guy that sells DVDs of movies that haven’t even come out yet. George: You bootleggers and your fancy contraptions. You got a free visit from me just checking to see if you did so. 😀 . You sneaky sonuvagun. 🙂 Bearman: I don’t want to get missed in your rounds so I need to be sneaky that way. George: Actually, that was pretty ingenious of you. 😀
Well to really screw with George, I thought, why not just go ahead and do it.
Below you will see the image that George posted. Click on the smaller image to see the Addanac City Christmas spectacular enlarged in all its glory a day earlier than what you will see on his site.
I have been to Spain. I have been to Spain at Christmas. Unlike the crappy manger scenes that Americans make that is limited to the manger only, in Spain they make a scene of the entire town with the manger being only a part of it.
And while in America, you can barely get people to notice when a manger scene is erected, in Spain they line up for a half mile in some places just to see it. I guess I didn’t look close enough to notice the Caganer. Here is one of Queen Elizabeth.
Yes hidden in Spanish scenes is a pooping statue. It started in Catalonia but has since moved to other areas. Somehow it symbolizes equality because in the end it doesn’t matter how famous you are, everyone poops.
One company creates many varieties poking fun at various icons and celebrities. There is even a Barack Obama with the words “Yes we Can” on it. Check out the video.
Oh and scroll down. One more day to vote in the Editorial Cartoon Caption Contest. Winner announced on Thursday.
Personally I dont know which group irritates me more during the holidays. The first group are those that force their employees to say Happy Holidays instead of leaving it up to the individual to say Happy Holidays, Merry Chistmas, or even Good Solstice. The second group are those who call for boycotting retailers who decide to use Happy Holidays in their advertising instead of Merry Christmas.
Surprisingly the PC police haven’t caught onto the fact that the word Holiday stems from Holy Day. I had many different things running through my head as to what to put on the sign the guy on the right is holding. Then I figured I have some talented readers so I thought I would do a…
CAPTION CONTEST
Rules:
In the comments section indicate the word(s) you think should go on the sign
If you have a website make sure to include it in your signature or in the comment itself
Next week I will post my favorites and have my readers vote on the best one.
If I get 10 people to comment in the next week who have not commented on the site in the last 30 days, I will give the winner their choice of a Tote Bag/t-shirt from WackSack.com or a signed copy of the finished artwork (and yes, I’ll pay shipping to you Aussies)
