Bearman Cartoons � Jerry Dowling

Twelve-Way with Cheese Released

Bearman — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:39:51 +0000

Cincinnati has a different way of serving up Chili. Instead of the chunks of meat found in other cities around the globe, Cincinnati chili is ground fine (like taco meat size) and usually has cinammon or chocolate in the ingredients. Moreover, it is served over thin spaghetti. A 3-way is Chili, Spaghetti and Cheese. A 4-way adds onions or beans and a 5-way adds both. Different foods blended together to make a great meal.

Well now several of the regulars at the Cincinnati Illustrators Blog who get together weekly to exchange horror stories and share work have come up with a Twelve-Way. No you can’t eat it. This group of editorial cartoonists (no not me), greeting card and magazine illustrators, and animators have created a humorous anthology showcasing each of their work in off-beat ways. And like its chili counterpart, it comes together as one great taste. The stories are woven together by a Crypt Keeper of sorts (a zombified Marge Schott – the deceased outspoken former owner of the Cincinnati Reds).

Check out the article from CityBeat, the local alt newspaper and buy the complete full color 112 page book online at ComixPress for only $20.

Jerry Dowlings Bengals Book Now Available

bearmancartoons — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:45:04 +0000

In the beginning of the year, I posted about Cincinnati editorial and sports cartoon legend Jerry Dowling publishing a book highlighting his Pete Rose cartoons over the years.

Well thanks to info from the Cincinnati Illustrators Blog it looks like Jerry is at it again with his new book, Drawing Super Wars: The Early Years of the Bengals available at Amazon and the publisher Edgecliff Press (Click on the title at Edgecliff and you can see all the pages of the book – but of course you need to buy it). Local Bengals Fans can meet Jerry tomorrow at the Books by the Banks event.

Also there will be another local legend Tom Wilson who does Ziggy and wrote a great book “Zig-Zagging: Loving Madly, Losing Badly: How Ziggy Saved My Life”

Not going to be there but future Cincinnati cartoon legend David Wilborn also has a book out with collections of his great Urban Jungle web cartoon. Check him out if you get the chance.

Jerry Dowling Published Book on Pete Rose

Bearman — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:35:23 +0000

When you think about Cincinnati cartoonists, most people think of recently retired Jim Borgman. But for those of us who have a Jerry Dowling original hanging in our house or eat at Arthurs on occassion, Jerry also is a Cincinnati cartooning icon.

For years he worked at the Cincinnati Enquirer and has focused mainly on single panel sports cartoons. In the past several years, his work can still be seen weekly in the local indie paper City Beat. He has pulled together his years of doing Pete Rose cartoons – from the Big Red Machine to the Big Ugly Banishment – and put them in a book with baseball writer Hal McCoy called Drawing Pete. You can read an article about it from co-author Hal McCoy by following this link.

I know you can get it at Amazon (click picture) or at local Cincinnati book retailers.