Tag: political cartoon

  • Romney Picks the Other Paul

    Editorial Cartoon: Mitt Romney Picks the Wrong Paul

    What they hell are you doing posting an editorial cartoon on a Sunday again and where is that obnoxious banner begging for votes?  Well I made it to week 9 among the top 10 but didn’t make it to the top 5 in the final week.  Thank you all so much for the support, votes, sharing and essentially putting up with me.  I’ll share my thoughts later in the post but first…

    Today’s cartoon was inspired by Mitt Romney choosing his running mate as Congressman Paul Ryan (oh and former Miami University alum – anyone know any other famous MU alums??  ahem ahem).   There was some quiet chatter that another presidential candidate, Ron Paul should be considered for the VP spot and a little more outspoken chatter about his son Rand Paul getting the nod.  So for those out there who think Romney got the wrong Paul, this cartoon is for you.

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    A few comments on the editorial cartoon contest…

    What I liked

    • It forced me to create and post an editorial cartoon 2x a week for the past 9 weeks.  Sure I typically post on Sundays and Wednesdays but sometimes I might share a different type of cartoon work.
    • It allowed me to utilize social media and the power of my readers to have a great showing every week.  Until the last week I was consistently in the top 3 in votes and the last week I was number 4.  Again voting didn’t account for the entire process of who got picked for the next round.

    What I didnt like…

    • No link love back to the creators.  Sure you could link to my twitter or facebook account from their page but why not open it up.
    • No direct voting links.  You had to go to the voting page and then find my picture to vote for it.  Several people accidentally voted for the first image that popped up and it wasn’t mine.
    • No archive of participants who didn’t make it.  There were several cartoonists who I loved that didn’t make it to further rounds but there is no way for me to find them because all their posts and info has been hidden.  Maybe it will pop back up after the competition.

    If you keep voting, I am putting my support behind Al Goodwin.  I think he is the best of the rest.  Consistently on the mark, timely and a fantastic cartoonist.  All in all it was fun…though I doubt I will be participating again as I am looking at what I want the next chapter of my cartooning to be….  I’ll keep you posted.

  • Editorial Cartoon: Obama and Romney Censor Reporters

    The Cartoonist Studio Editorial Cartoon Contest continues and I made it to week SIX!  Thanks to all for voting.  Click the image above or here to go to the voting.  You should do a search of “Bearman” and my cartoon will come up front and center and then vote.  Some people were clicking the link and then accidentally voting on the first thing that popped up.  Unfortunately no way to direct link to my cartoon.  Again, as long as I stay in the contest, there will be two editorial cartoons a week to vote on – Mondays and Thursdays.   Oh and you can vote multiple times in each round if you want (resets every six hours) until EOD Saturday.

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    Today’s editorial cartoon was inspired by an article in the New York Times, that said that in exchange for access to the candidates or their campaign advisors, the media/reporters must provide any on the record quotes to the campaigns to censor or redact.   So essentially if I am a reporter for the Times, in order to be able to talk on the record with either candidates advisors, I have to agree to send them the quotes I want to use in my story and allow them to agree to them, remove them completely or just remove certain words.  Any reporter that fails to do so is left out in the cold when it comes to top level meetings including those with the candidates.

    WHAT??  Ridiculous.  At the point that an entity can determine the course of a story it is no longer reporting, it is PR!!!  Shame on any media outlet who agrees to abide by these rules.

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    BONUS TOON:

    Normally I would post this cartoon as a regularly scheduled update.  But since I am in the middle of the editorial cartoon contest, I didn’t think it would fit in.  But sharing it with you anyway given the timing of the latest Batman movie coming out “The Dark Knight Rises”  Of course I had to go there with the title – Erectile Dysfunction.

    Bearman Cartoon The Dark Knight Rises Erectile Dysfunction

  • Editorial Cartoon: Mitt Romney Paternity Test on the Maury Show

    Editorial Cartoon Mitt Romney Paternity Test on the Maury Show

    The Cartoonist Studio Editorial Cartoon Contest continues and I made it to week FIVE!  Thanks to all for voting.  Click the image above or here to go to the voting.  You should do a search of “Bearman” and my cartoon will come up front and center and then vote.  Some people were clicking the link and then accidentally voting on the first thing that popped up.  Unfortunately no way to direct link to my cartoon.  Again, as long as I stay in the contest, there will be two editorial cartoons a week to vote on – Mondays and Thursdays.   Oh and you can vote multiple times in each round if you want (resets every six hours) until EOD Sunday.

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    Today’s editorial cartoon is inspired once again by Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.  Don’t know if the Maury Povich show is shown outside the United States but he has a daytime show in the U.S. that can’t be missed when you are home sick from work.  What Jerry Springer is to fighting and getting naked on his show, Maury Povich is the king of Paternity tests.  Deadbeat dad after deadbeat dad come onto the show swearing they never even slept with the mother of a baby in question.  Maury’s typical phrase is something like, “When it comes to baby Jessica….George Ford, you ARE THE FATHER!”, causing the “new” dad to be in shock and the baby’s mom to stand up pointing in his face telling him “I told you so, I told you so”

    It came to me this week that Mitt Romney is a dad trying not to claim his responsibility for Obamacare.  When then Governor Romney was in office in Massachusetts he passed almost the exact same program that Obamacare is based on.  And yet throughout the Republican debates, he only would say what works in Massachusetts wouldn’t work for the rest of the country.  Now he is promising to get rid of Obamacare if elected.    Instead, I would prefer him say, “Sure I passed this.  Here is what was right about it, and here is what is wrong.   And THIS is what I will  change to make it better for everyone.”   If anyone has heard him say it, please link me to the article.  Would love to eat my words on this one.

  • Editorial Cartoon: Obama’s Wedding Chapel

    Editorial Cartoon: Obama's Wedding Chapel

    The Cartoonist Studio Editorial Cartoon Contest continues and I made it to week THREE!  Thanks to all for voting.  Click the image above or here to go to the voting.  You should do a search of “Bearman” and my cartoon will come up front and center and then vote.  Some people were clicking the link and then accidentally voting on the first thing that popped up.  Unfortunately no way to direct link to my cartoon.  Again, as long as I stay in the contest, there will be two editorial cartoons a week to vote on – Mondays and Thursdays.   Oh and you can vote multiple times in each round if you want (resets every six hours) until EOD Saturday.

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    Today’s editorial cartoon was inspired by our President Barack Obama.  Seems a few weeks back the President’s staff came up with a genius way to raise funds for his reelection campaign.  He started a gift registry on his site.

    Got a birthday, anniversary, or wedding coming up?

    Let your friends know how important this election is to you—register with Obama 2012, and ask for a donation in lieu of a gift. It’s a great way to support the President on your big day. Plus, it’s a gift that we can all appreciate—and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl.

    So yes, a donation goes further than a gravy bowl….unless of course you need to serve gravy.  So if you are rich enough will the President officiate at your wedding too assuming you drop enough cash?  I am sure there are some billionaires out there would pay several million for that chance.

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    On a separate note, I had the fortune of scoring some great tickets to the Opening Ceremony of the World Choir Games held in Cincinnati and for the first time in it’s seven year existence, held in the United States.  Very enjoyable experience but I was a little disappointed in the choice of music.  They had the world renowned Cincinnati Pops and the Cincinnati May Festival star in the last half of the show after all the formality and speeches were done.  It was indeed a great concert but it seemed like just another July 4 (Independence Day in the US) Concert that I have seen before.  I would have preferred they use the choir groups from multiple countries to highlight some of the different types of choral music that we could be exposed to over the next 10 days of competition.  But my hat still goes off to the organizers as overall it looks like a well thought out competition and I need to find some time to get to some of the many competitions each day.

    World Choir Games Opening Ceremony

  • Democrats and Justice Roberts

    Editorial Cartoon: Democrats and Justice Roberts

    The Cartoonist Studio Editorial Cartoon Contest continues and I made it to week THREE!  Thanks to all for voting.  Click the image above or here to go to the voting.  You should do a search of “Bearman” and my cartoon will come up front and center and then vote.  Some people were clicking the link and then accidentally voting on the first thing that popped up.  Unfortunately no way to direct link to my cartoon.  Again, as long as I stay in the contest, there will be two editorial cartoons a week to vote on – Mondays and Thursdays.   Oh and you can vote multiple times in each round if you want (resets every six hours) until EOD Tuesday.

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    Today’s editorial cartoon is in honor of Chief Justice John Roberts.  Seems ever since he has been nominated to the Supreme Court, Democrats have chastised Roberts for being a right winger.  There was even speculation during President Obama’s Inauguration that Roberts purposefully flubbed the lines Obama was reciting during his Oath of Office.

    Well last week Justice Roberts shocked both sides of the spectrum when he joined his more liberal justices in upholding what is affectionately been known as ObamaCare.  Now Democrats are going to have to reevaluate their thoughts on the Chief.

  • Editorial Cartoon: Ron Paul Social Security Hypocrite

    The Cartoonist Studio Editorial Cartoon Contest continues and I made it to week THREE!  Thanks to all for voting.  Click the image above or here to go to the voting.  You should do a search of “Bearman” and my cartoon will come up front and center and then vote.  Some people were clicking the link and then accidentally voting on the first thing that popped up.  Unfortunately no way to direct link to my cartoon.  Again, as long as I stay in the contest, there will be two editorial cartoons a week to vote on – Mondays and Thursdays.   Oh and you can vote multiple times in each round if you want (resets every six hours) until EOD  Tuesday.

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    So Doctor, Senator and Presidential Candidate Ron Paul was in the news last week about his seemingly hypocritical stance on Social Security (see article).   Seems with one breath he states that Social Security is Unconstitutional but with the other admits that he accepts Social Security.

    In the editorial cartoon I used “Hypocritic Oath” instead of “Hippocratic Oath” (pledge of doctors).  See what I did there?  Pretty clever huh?

    I am torn though.  One one hand, he did pay into the system so he has the right to get paybacks.  YET, he makes the claim that he puts it in the same category as roads  where he has paid into them so he should enjoy the benefits thereof.   It would be very difficult to NOT drive on government roads.  It would be very easy to take a stand and not cash your Social Security check or at the least protest by donating the checks.   Thoughts?

  • Editorial Cartoon: Mitt Romney Indecisive

    Bearman Cartoons Mitt Romney Indecisive

    The Cartoonist Studio Editorial Cartoon Contest continues and I made it to week TWO!  Thanks to all for voting.  Click the image above or here to go to the voting.  You should do a search of “Bearman” and my cartoon will come up front and center and then vote.  Some people were clicking the link and then accidentally voting on the first thing that popped up.  Unfortunately no way to direct link to my cartoon.  Again, as long as I stay in the contest, there will be two editorial cartoons a week to vote on – Mondays and Thursdays.   Oh and you can vote multiple times in each round if you want (resets every six hours) until EOD  Saturday.

    It seems like every presidential election cycle their is a candidate the press/pundits like to point out is wishy washy or indecisive in some way.  John Kerry was known as the flip flopper and now the mantra has been passed down to Mitt Romney.  I was reading this quote from Leo Tolstoy which inspired today’s editorial cartoon.  Tolstoy was a Russian writer in the 1800’s who is famous for writing War and Peace and also inspiring non violent movements such as used by Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

    I don’t mind a politician changing his mind on issues.  I guess it is better than standing your ground without being able to be persuaded.  But changing your mind is a far cry from consistently being indecisive.

  • Editorial Cartoon: Republicans and Democrats in my Pants

    Editorial Cartoon: Republicans and Democrats in My pants

    The Cartoonist Studio Editorial Cartoon Contest continues and I made it to week TWO!  Thanks to all for voting.  Click the image above or here to go to the voting.  You should do a search of “Bearman” and my cartoon will come up front and center and then vote.  Some people were clicking the link and then accidentally voting on the first thing that popped up.  Unfortunately no way to direct link to my cartoon.  Again, as long as I stay in the contest, there will be two editorial cartoons a week to vote on – Mondays and Thursdays.   Oh and you can vote multiple times in each round if you want (resets every six hours) until EOD Tuesday.

    This editorial cartoon is timely as we heat up all the rhetoric that is going to happen during the campaign.  Those of you who know me know I am a moderate who one day will poke fun at the left and another at the right.  Today you get a two for one.  Whether Democrat or Republican they both are interested in what I have in my pants and what I am doing with it.  Democrats are always after our money and Republicans are always interested in what we are doing with our bodies (gay marriage, abortion, sex in general).  Ok to be honest I too am completely against abortion BUT that doesn’t mean I am prepared to completely ban it either.  Good thing I don’t run for office because they would say I was wishy washy.

    And sorry I haven’t been around to other sites this past week.  On vacation so am limited to how much I can surf.

    Thanks again for all the votes last week.

     

     

  • Editorial Cartoon: Bloomberg Soda Ban

    Editorial Cartoon Michael Bloomberg Soda Ban

    The Cartoonist Studio Editorial Cartoon Contest continues.  Click the image above or here to go to the voting.  You should do a search of “Bearman” and my cartoon will come up front and center and then vote.  Some people were clicking the link and then accidentally voting on the first thing that popped up.  Unfortunately no way to direct link to my cartoon.  In fourth place in the voting after the first entry so thanks to all who voted.   Again, as long as I stay in the contest, there will be two editorial cartoons a week to vote on – Mondays and Thursdays.   Oh and you can vote multiple times in each round if you want (resets every six hours) until EOD Friday.

    Today’s editorial cartoon is inspired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.  His latest crusade is against the Big Gulp aka any sugary drinks (soda, pop, soft drink, coke, Hi-C….whatever you like to call it in your neck of the world) bigger than 16oz being sold in restaurants and other retail establishments.  His reasoning is that those high caloric drinks contribute to obesity.  Question is where does it stop?  And do you seriously think it means people will drink less?  Hell no, they will just go back for more refills in a restaurant or just buy two in the drive thru.  Instead of super sizing for $.50 more, I can see many restaurants offering buy one get one for $.50, because people still want their vat of soft drink.  What say you?  Good idea or Nanny State?