For all my Jewish friends celebrating a Coronavirus Passover in the next week, enjoy yourselves….at a distance!
Tag: Funny
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Why there is nothing to watch on Netflix
Today’s cartoon is inspired by our friends at Netflix. Of course when you have vacation time over the holidays you tend to have some quality TV time as well. Don’t get me wrong, Netflix does have some decent things but have you ever tried to search for a movie to watch or something other than Stranger Things/Punisher (two I enjoy)? But it seems they don’t have to put on a ton of great shows because as long as you find something to watch suddenly you forget the hours spent trying to find something to watch.
I have heard tales of people spending 10-15 minutes scrolling to find something to watch. Just like our cartoon desert wanderer looking for a bit of nourishment, it is hard to come by. That’s why when something new finally pops up on the service, the internet seems to react like it is the best thing in the world. Sometimes it is good, sometimes it is a shit sandwich.
With $8 Billion to spend on programming this year I would hope to find a lot more “Bright” spots (which I actually liked and the critics hated) and fewer “Iron Fists”.
What are you watching or not on Netflix??
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Can You Hear Me Now?
Can you hear me now? Not only is that an old Verizon slogan, but it seems to be a recurring issue with me. You see I don’t pay attention to something many times until it is important to me. And it doesn’t mean what you have to say isn’t important, but when it is task related, I tend to tune out until I need to accomplish the task.
For example, if you said “Hey could you send me Bob’s address when you get home”, I will say “send me an email/text” because I know that even though it is important to you, my brain is constantly moving so I will most likely forget. This infuriates my wife, who will tell me multiple times what she needs at the grocery store, but unless I am there and talking to her on the phone or she tells me right before I leave, I will most likely forget because I didn’t expend the energy to put it into my long term memory. She now knows to just give me a written list. Now if I could only find that damn list.
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Charity Challenge Final Results
Cartoonist using “Bearman” in their cartoons ($10 each):
- Jon Esparza at Jon’s Crazy Stuff
- Cha at Dontchawannadream
- Christopher L
New Google Plus Followers ($1 each)
- 284!!
Week 3 Grand Total of $314 which once again puts us at the max payout of $1500. Pulling out the checkbook now.
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Why Cats are Assholes
Not much needs to be added to this cartoon. Whether you love cats or hate them….they are ASSHOLES. Why is it that cats can sleep 9 hours of their day on hardwood floors and yet when they have to vomit up a hairball they nonchalantly move over to the carpet, the couch or the bed? -
Bald Men – Hairy Backs
Decided to change up some of my cartoons and experiment with different things. Today’s cartoon was inspired by a friend of mine who is of course bald. I don’t know if he has a hairy back or not but I can imagine.
It seems as I grow older thankfully I have not yet lost the hair on my head but I find these strange giant ear hairs or strangle long hairs coming out of my eyebrows. As my wife calls them “crazy eyebrows”
Trying to work on some new shirt designs and some back-end website redesigns so I may post sporadically or not necessarily cartoons but I will try to still make my rounds as I can.
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Editorial Cartoon: Obama and Reagan
So my last politically inspired cartoon poked fun at the Republicans so now it is the Democrats turn. Time and time again I see Democrats invoking the spirit of Ronald Reagan to shame Republicans into agreeing with their policies. Somehow Reagan has turned from representing all things evil with Conservatives to the voice of an elder (albeit deceased) elder statesman.
Recently President Barack Obama invoked a quote from Reagan to defend the Buffet Rule (a plan to up the tax on the rich) calling Reagan (gasp) “a socialist” compared to the ‘Republicans of today. At the same time he said “Trickle Down Economics” didn’t work…a phrase that was the basis of the Reagan plan.
The difference is how they are looking to go about it. Obama wants to raise tax on the über rich…something the majority of Americans will get behind simply because it doesn’t affect them. However, what Reagan wanted to do was similar to all Republican platforms generally and fight to reduce taxes. I am not one of those people that clamors for tax deductions. I think they are a necessary part of living in an advanced society. However, I hate it when my tax money is wasted because of politics that both sides tend to partake in.
AND, I agree with Reagan that the key isn’t to just raise taxes on the rich. It is to remove all the tax loopholes that seem to be available to the rich such that people like Warren Buffet pays less as a percent of income than his secretary. Hilarious that Buffet will make that point but still take advantage of those loopholes himself. Simplify the tax code, get rid of the loopholes that seem to pop up and we won’t need to worry so much about whose taxes should be raised or not.
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Why Google Plus is better than….
So it is no secret that I have been somewhat neglecting my friends on facebook, twitter, etc because my time on social media has been taken up by Google Plus. While it of course has some limitations I wish they would work out sooner rather than later, the above cartoon pretty much sums up why it is better IMO than other social media.
As always let me know if you need an invite. And for people who have recently joined who are lost, ahem Bo Lumpkin, a fellow cartoonist Debbie Ohi has created a nice page with links to help get you started. You can find it here.
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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?
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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.
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Editorial Cartoon Caption Contest
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)
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