Tag: editorial cartoon

Editorial Cartoon: Man v. Food

Today’s editorial cartoon is based on a reality show addiction in the Bearman household called “Man v. Food”. The premise of the show is food junky, Adam Richman, travels all over the United States to show viewers pig out spots in different cities. The last half of the show highlights a local restaurant with a food challenge (ie. eat a crap load off food or something really really spicy). If Adam beats the challenge he proclaims “Man Won” and makes a hand sign of the letter “M”. If he loses, he proclaims “Food Won” and makes a hand sign of the letter “F”

The wife and I are enamored with the show and Adam’s ability to indulge to the point that he gets the food sweats yet doesn’t pass out, crap himself, or have a coronary. We have noticed his waist line has increased over three seasons of the show. So thankfully this season, Adam has passed the torch to average joes and just hosts the show. Entertaining still, but not quite as much as wondering when the EMT’s were going to be called in.

***UPDATE***

Our friend James from Obscure Gentlemen webcomic tackled this same topic. Go check out his hilarious version here.

August 17, 2011
Editorial cartoon – Bert and Ernie Gay?

Today’s editorial cartoon stems from the unsuccessful movement to get Sesame Street to out confirmed bachelors, Bert and Ernie, as being gay. While I am for gay marriage, I am with Sesame Street for saying “no”. Thoughts?

August 14, 2011
Editorial Cartoon: Google Plus Gifs
This editorial cartoon about animated gifs on Google Plus came from my time on there over the past two weeks. For those of you who engage with me on Twitter or Facebook, I apologize as I have been sucked into the world of Google + and though it has it’s limitations, I prefer it over both platforms.

The Good
- Take the best of twitter in that you can follow the message streams of anyone you want with the best of facebook that allows you to see pictures, links and more than 140 characters and that is the promise of Google Plus.
- Being able to engage with people you admire and feel like your message isn’t lost.
- The ability to put the people you follow into different circles that you create. For example, I have a circle for people I folow that don’t follow me, webcomic people, art people, learning people, etc. At any point I can only look at the postings from any individual group AND I can have a posting only show up to specific individuals or circles.
The Not So Good
- Unless you link your photo albums to Googles photo sharing site Picasa, the way it manages your pictures is horrible. I would love to see a feature that allows you to choose “insert picture” and have you be able to choose a specific picture from a specific album. I am hoping there is a fix for that soon or I am doing something wrong and someone will correct me.
One complaint I hear from others that I am not so sure I mind YET is that some circles are so incestuous with the same people that 5 people can share someone else’s post and it shows up every time in your stream if you have all five people in your circle. The one complaint you hear most about is oversharing of animated gifs. Again, so far I don’t mind them but I love when someone says “I know people don’t like animated gifs but I HAD to share this one because it is so cool.”

So is it ironic that I had to make this cartoon an animated gif in order to make a point of animated gifs? Is it even irony? I don’t know since all the “experts” said none of Alanis Morrisette’s examples in Ironic weren’t ironic.
July 31, 2011
What Would Dexter Do?
What What Dexter Do?

Casey Anthony fits the Code

Casey Anthony does NOT fit the Code.

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Today’s Editorial Cartoons started as one but as usual my better half disagreed so I created a second version and decided to run a poll among my readers to see your take. First, I have to say that I am completely against vigilante justice and as pissed off as you can be about the decision in the Casey Anthony trial, calls for individuals to do harm to her outside the justice system is way off IMO. Remember, Dexter is a fictional character that real people shouldn’t emulate.

Some background for those not familiar with the series. Dexter is a series on Showtime starring Michael C. Hall who plays Dexter Morgan. As a toddler Dexter witnessed his mother murdered in a terrible way. He was adopted by a cop who later saw serial killer tendencies in Dexter. Dad must have been off as well because rather than seek help for his troubled son, he created a Code by which Dexter follows to determine whether someone should be executed by his vigilante justice.

According to the Code:
- Killing innocents is NEVER allowed
- Always take time and make sure you have the right person-EVIDENCE
- Be extremely careful with the killing and more importantly the PREPARATION
- Remember: YOU control your urges to kill, they don’t control you.
Once the verdict hit, several people started calling for a Dexter type judgement and this video popped up:

Taking on the mind of Dexter, I say Casey Anthony doesn’t meet the code. Like OJ, most of us are confident she did it but the evidence was sometimes murky and circumstantial. As part two of the code states, Dexter won’t violate the code because he doesn’t have solid evidence (yet somehow he is able to find evidence that the “professionals” can’t). My wife disagreed and therefore I put it to you all. Go vote in the poll under the pictures.

Oh…and get the fan art version of a Dexter tshirt at the Beartoons Store.
July 17, 2011
Editorial Cartoon: San Francisco Circumcision Ban

So it seems our friends in San Francisco think there needs to be a ballot issue on the November election on whether or not to ban circumcisions, even for religious purposes (see here).

I am all for parents deciding whether or not to circumcise their child. However, I completely disagree with this ballot initiative and find some of the tactics by the proponents a bit out of bounds. For one they liken it to female genital mutilation that goes on in some parts of the world. All medical experts I found said it is in no way true.

Then they began releasing a series of comic books called Foreskin Man that highlight in one issue a doctor and another a mohel (Rabbi who performs the circumcision for Jewish boys) who are evil beings that will do anything to circumcise a boy even against his parent’s wishes. Brian Hagen of Pen Grenades believes it has crossed the line into an anti-semitic rant (Go read his review).

Whether it has or not, all the proponents of the legislature have done is remove all meaningful dialogue from the discussion.

June 29, 2011
Editorial Cartoon: Hugh Hefner Runaway Bride

So poor old Hugh Hefner, of Playboy Magazine fame, was left standing at the altar by his fiance Crystal Harris days before their wedding. Ok he might not have actually been standing at the altar already but you know how old people like to get places early.   Crystal appears in the upcoming edition of Playboy as “Mrs Crystal Hefner” ooops. According to TMZ, Hef is putting a sticker on all news-stand editions that say “Runaway Bride in this issue”.

Being the consummate playboy that he is, I predicted that it wouldn’t take long for Hef to rebound given he lives in a place with half naked women busting about. I just didn’t realize how quickly the old captain would move when I drew this cartoon on Thursday night.   So imagine my surprise yesterday to see the lastest from TMZ that the octogenarian (as opposed to octomom) has another 25 year old sharing his bed – Anna Sophia Berglund.

My favorite line from Crystal on the break up was “This isn’t the lifestyle for me. Multiple girls around all the time. The Playboy lifestyle. I just wanted to be true to myself.”  As if she didn’t know walking into the relationship.

June 19, 2011
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
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
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
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