Tag: humor

  • Bearman Cartoon: Terrell Owens and Chad Ocho Cinco

    Bengals Bromance T.O. and Chad

    Outside of the United States you may not have heard about two of the most colorful players in American Football – Terrell Owens and Chad (Johnson) Ocho Cinco.  But since they both have reality series on VH1, they are more popular than just their speed on the gridiron.

    The Cincinnati Bengals have just signed Terrell to a contract bringing him on the same team as his longtime friend Chad.  Terrell is also known by his initials – “T.O”.  Let the Bengals Bromance begin!!

    BTW, anyone actually own one of those two piece friend/love necklaces?

  • Rejected Readers Digest Cartoon 1

    Rejected Readers Digest Cartoon Screw Loose

    First of all let me start by saying, I love the Reader’s Digest and love the cartoons in them.  In fact, rumor has it that Nate might have a cartoon in there soon.

    However, our friend Bschooled has an ongoing series on her blog entitled Readers Digest – Rejected Humor Submissions (see here, here, here ), where she posts humorous takes on things that probably wouldn’t get passed the RD editors.  I have been teasing her that I would start doing a cartoon series ala the same style as in the magazine.   Ones that would never see the light of day at Reader’s Digest.  So here is the first.

    My wife took one look at it and said “That is the dumbest cartoon I have ever seen”  EXACTLY.  Success!!!  My goal is to periodically add to the rejected RD series with cartoons  that the jokes are so syrupy sweet or bad that they actually are funny.

    Got any ideas?  Feel free to send via contact form, email or in the comments.  We don’t want to make them too good or the editors at RD might actually want to pay me for my work.  And if that is the case, you can forget me showing you the finished product first.   I’ll make you go buy the magazine.

  • Comic Con now Hollywood Con? – Cartoon

    Bearman Cartoon How Hollywood took over Comic-Con

    Something painfully obvious I know but this article in the LA Times (hat tip to Alan of the Daily Cartoonist) laments the takeover each year of Comic-Con by Hollywood elite hoping to get a strong internet buzz for their latest endeavors.

    For those who go, do you feel the loss of the way it used to be or is it better for smaller exhibitors because what you lose in focus you make up because if the sheer number of people. 

    I have never been to a comic convention and even with the proliferation of webcartoonists that exhibit at them these days, I will probably not ever be one of them.  Face it, political cartoon compilations are not what fanboys are clamoring for.  Maybe if there’s ever a newsie-con, I’ll be setting up shop between Rachel Maddow and Glenn Beck who are there trying to hock their own books.

  • Seven Deadly Sins Cartoon: Envy

    Envy Cartoon: Seven Deadly Sins

    UPDATE:  GET THIS AND OTHER DEADLY SINS T-SHIRT, POSTERS ETC AT OUR STORE

    Day six in our quest to showcase the Seven Deadly Sins in cute devil form.  Today’s topic is Envy.

    I really love how this one turned out.  It is probably my favorite of the bunch.  And yet another “sin” that I am guilty of.

    I remember looking for houses and setting a housing budget like my dad taught me; no more than 33% of your gross income should go to housing expenses (including mortgage, insurance and utilities).  Knowing the neighborhood we wanted to be in, I kept getting frustrated seeing all these houses that I liked but couldn’t afford with my budget.  I remember asking my wife how the heck all these people could afford these houses and we couldn’t.  She, being the financial whiz she is, replied “Because many of them are mortgaged to the hilt.”  Sure enough when the housing market collapsed many of those same houses suddenly went on the market.

    I envy other cartoonists, both in how amazing some of them can draw and how some who I feel I do better get many thousands of visitors daily.  Yet I know there are others out there struggling to find an audience or their niche on the web and think I have it made.

    So envy is a weird thing.  You can be envious of someone one day and feel sorry for them the next.  And for as much as you can be envious of others, there are probably people out the envious of you or your situation.

  • Seven Deadly Sins Cartoon: Pride

    Seven Deadly Sins Cartoon: Pride

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    Today is the fifth cartoon in my series on the Seven Deadly Sins.

    This one is a tricky one.  I think Pride tends to get a bad rap among the sins world.  A healthy dose of pride can be good for many people.  Whether it be National Pride, Gay Pride, or simply Pride that you weren’t so stupid that despite other’s belief that you wouldn’t, you got a degree.

    But as always too much of a good thing is bad.  A strong belief in yourself is great.  So strong a belief that you come off that you are better than everyone else or their opinion isn’t just as valid as yours is bad.

  • Seven Deadly Sins Cartoon: Anger

    UPDATE:  GET THIS AND OTHER DEADLY SINS T-SHIRT, POSTERS ETC AT OUR STORE

    Today is part four in a series of the Seven Deadly Sins Cartoons.  This one focuses on the sin or Anger or Wrath (but who knows what wrath means anymore)

    Of all the sins, this is the one I probably suffer from the least.  I am just not an angry person.  Things don’t get me too upset.  But if I am, you better watch out because you have pushed me too far.

    I think life is too short to be an asshole (maybe I’ll make that saying into a tshirt…haha).  There are people who walk around constantly with a chip on their shoulder as if the world owes them something.  It doesn’t, so please stop thinking the world revolves around you; it revolves around me (oops there goes my “pride” coming in early).

    I read something by author/blogger Seth Godin recently that technology hasn’t brought people together as many claim but rather created anonymous interactions where people are empowered to be assholes (my words not his)  Couldn’t find the link.   The utter vileness that people spew on the net that they wouldn’t dare say to someone they know or even face to face baffles me.  But it goes beyond that.  Politically, disagreeing with the government is not enough.  The sheer vile anger towards Bush and now Obama shows that when it comes to meanness, it crosses the political spectrum.

  • Seven Deadly Sins: Greed

    Seven Deadly Sins: Greed

    UPDATE:  GET THIS AND OTHER DEADLY SINS T-SHIRT, POSTERS ETC AT OUR STORE

    One of the projects I have been working on as of late is to add some things to my online store.   One idea I came up with was to do t-shirts and posters of the Seven Deadly Sins.  Rather than make them ominous characters, I went more for cute.  The Seven Deadly Sins are “a classification of the most objectionable vices that has been used since early Christian times to educate and instruct followers concerning (immoral) fallen humanity’s tendency to sin.”

    Given each sins call for very different personalities, I thought it would be a great challenge to myself to draw each of them.

    Every day this week, I will post a new Deadly Sin.  Today is Greed.    I find myself greedy with my time more than money.  I need to find more volunteer opportunities.

    Spill it…who out there is Greedy?

  • Frog Legs

    Frog Legs

    I alluded to the Twitter #tuesdaysketch in my last post.  This was one I did a few months ago.  The subject was simply “frogs”

  • Bearman Cartoon: Wonder Woman’s New Costume

    Wonder Woman Naked

     The internet has been abuzz this past week with DC comics decision to revamp the Wonder Woman struggling franchise by giving her a makeover.  Personally I think the top they chose looks too much like Spiderman.

    But it got me thinking what would a comic book geek really want a redone Wonder Woman to wear.  Well that and my naked Marge Simpson did so well that I thought my stats were due for another titillating post.

    Thanks to Mack at Area 51 Comics for the idea as part of Twitter #TuesdaySketch.  The idea behind TuesdaySketch is that the moderator chooses a topic on Monday night and anyone that has a chance showcases their sketch.  Of course this week was on Wonder Woman’s new wardrobe.  Check out all the submissions for this week.

  • Editorial Cartoon: Mel Gibson loses it

    It seems Mel Gibson’s mouth is its own Lethal Weapon.  He played an incredibly convincing guy that was on the edge of sanity along with his cop partner played by Danny Glover.  But the real Gibson seems more off his rocker than the character Riggs.

    In 2006, an inebriated Mel went off on a cop in an antisemitic rant.  Gibson apologized and blamed alcoholism on the remarks.  The public forgave him and in a poll only 6% said they would not see him in a future movie.

    Well now it seems, he has done it again.  In taped conversations, Gibson is heard telling baby mama Oksana:

    “You look like a f—ing pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of n—-rs, it will be your fault.”

    Will those who rushed to defend him three years ago be back?  Will other’s jump on the bandwagon to call for his excommunication from the Hollywood community?  Thoughts?