Tag: editorial cartoon

  • Editorial Cartoon: Osama Dead

    Editorial Cartoon: Osama Dead Trump wants Proof

    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  Did I use an outdated reference with the title “Weekend at Donalds”???

    Don’t forget the Charity Challenge.  Click image for Details.

    Bearman Cartoons Charity Challenge

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Editorial Cartoon: The Case for More Sex

    Editorial Cartoon: More Sex Please

    This editorial cartoon was inspired by recent articles that infrequent sex or exercise can lead to an increased risk of heart attacks.  If you aren’t getting enough and decide to engage in those activities, it could induce a heart attack.

    Can you imagine the out of shape guys using this as their new pick up line.  “C’mon baby, you don’t want me to die do you??”

    Reminds me of a guy who would ask every woman in the bar if he could get her number whether or not he had a chance with any of them.  When asked why, he said it was law of averages.  1 in 100 would say yes.  I think that guy ended up being pretty good at sales.

  • 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?

  • Editorial Cartoon: Piers Morgan

    Editorial cartoon: Piers Morgan

    There is a new talk show host in town.  Piers Morgan (U.S. readers might know him as a former judge on America’s Got Talent) has taken over Larry King’s spot on CNN.  In his first week alone, he interviewed Oprah, George Clooney and Howard Stern.  I’ve probably watched his show more than I did Larry’s in the last 3 years combined. 

    Yet with such high profile guests in the early weeks, what happens when he is only left with being able to interview “celebrities” the likes of  the Kardashian sisters or similar?  Would he have to break down and try to nab an interview with Madonna, Howie Mandell, or Heather Mills (all according to the NY Mag are on his banned list).

    Side note:  Piers was a hard one to caricature for me.  After many attempts, what you see above I was finally happy with and my wife was able to identify without prompting.  But now the more I look at it, I can’t stop seeing Eric Stoltz in Mask.  Sorry Piers.

    Update:  Ok I was completely kidding when I said the Kardashian joke but I guess he indeed did interview them last week and it was not a ratings success.

  • Editorial Cartoon: Undercover Bossy

    Editorial Cartoon: Undercover Bossy

    Undercover Boss is a series in the U.S. that showcases company executives disguising themselves as out of work average joes working different entry level jobs in their own company.   It was originally a British series and now has expanded to Australia (source).   It is not only a ratings success but also a PR success for any company lucky enough to be featured on it.

    Well it seems that Cincinnati’s own Mayor Mark Mallory was asked to participate as the first mayor in the country featured on the show.  Cincinnati needs some good PR so I think it was a great idea.  Well it seems some city council members do not.  Leslie Ghiz complained “…he’s not the boss..The manager’s the boss.  He’s nobody’s boss.”  (source).   While it it true that our city is run by a city manager, the mayor is still seen as playing a prominent role in how people view the city and therefore it is not inappropriate for him to take on this task.

    And Chris Bortz said “he might put forth a motion to sue the production company to make sure the show doesn’t air, saying Mallory was simply “advancing a personal agenda.”   Seems they only wanted him involved more in the budget process so they have one more person to point the finger when things go wrong.

    Oh and Mayor Mallory is fairly recognized in the city (see bio) so rumors were that they gave him different facial hair and dreadlocks, thus the picture.

    Anyone watch UB?  Do you think it would be good or bad for your city if your mayor appeared on the show?