Tag: Beartoons

Damn Confusing French Words

Those damn confusing Middle French words will screw you up every single time.

Duvet – (origin Middle French) noun

1. a usually down-filled quilt, often with a removable cover; comforter.

Bidet- (origin Middle French) noun

1. a low, basinlike bathroom fixture, usually with spigots, used for bathing the genital and perineal areas.

(Source)

In getting ready to go on a trip, my wife dictated a list of items we needed to do/get. One of them was to clean the comforter. So in my list I wrote, “Clean Duvet”. She hadn’t ever used the term duvet and thought I had thrown a joke in the list and when I questioned her, she said pretty much what the cartoon implies.

Ever been confused by similar sounding words/phrases? Be out of touch for the next couple weeks (or minimal) so talk amongst yourselves.

July 26, 2015
Oktoberfest T-shirt

New Oktoberfest t-shirt design for 2014. I decided that my very first tshirt design needed an update for 2014. So here it is along with other holiday designs. So when it is time for Oktoberfest whether in Munich or Zinzinnati (Cincinnati), it is time to “Grab Your Sausage and Have Fun” Because what is funnier than a man in Lederhosen grabbing an oversized chunk of meat.

Of course saying “Wienerschnitzel” instead of “Sausage” would have been funnier but they are two completely different things.

In addition to my cafepress store, I also added this design to my Society6 site in case anyone prefers their shirts.

August 20, 2014
Charles Ramsey – Hero of Cleveland

Sometimes a caricature just comes together quick as in the case of Cleveland Hero Charles Ramsey. He was the neighbor of the guy that kept three women captive in Cleveland for 10 years. So I figured he deserved his own cartoon tribute along with this classic line he told the reporter interviewing him after the rescue.

I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms…either she’s homeless or she’s got problems.

This is what I love about not having a set schedule as I can pull these things off quickly to react to news of the day. Must have struck a cord because I shared this on Facebook last night and actually got some shares from that damn site. Seemed to be a hit on G+ too.

May 8, 2013
2013 Charity Challenge Week 1 Results
Week one of the Charity Challenge is rocking. Thanks to all who have been involved. If you want to get involved, since it goes through the end of the month, please go here for more information.

Include “Bearman” in a webcomic or Bearman Fan Art – $10
- Kim Belding of PicPak
- C. Glen Williams of Frighteningly Pretentious Comix
- Christopher L did this fine bit of fan art
Blog about the Challenge – $10
- Christopher L of Anything Wiki
- Duncan of Madhatters
- Friggin Loon
- Rachael at YoYo-Dyne
- Marti at Marti’s Geneology Adventures (and Brandon’s Aunt)
- Katrina Szatmari at Ravings of a Lunatic
Adding Beartoons.com to Blog Roll or Banner Ad Addition – $5
- Andro
- Chris L
- Rudy
- Cha
- Marti
New Followers on Google Plus – $1

551 new followers – $551

For a week one grand total of $666. The devil is in the details. Thanks to all for helping.
May 7, 2013
Battery Hog Tshirt

So you know what I did last night. I drew. Not because I had to or felt an obligation to but because I wanted to. One of the things I wanted to do was beef up my tshirt shop and start doing more designs.

This Battery Hog was inspired by apps like Facebook and Google Plus which seem to drain the hell out of my cell phone battery. So I thought it would be fun to make an iphone or android case that had this image. But I figured there are a bunch of “battery hogs” Slap the shirt on an infant who drains you. Slap it on your spouse who we KNOW drains you. Get them on a bunch of stuff available here.

See and you all thought I was giving up completely.

February 13, 2013
WWE 3MB AKA Ginger Mac-Hal

Today’s cartoon poster once again is for the wrestling fans out there. I know many of my regular readers aren’t into wrestling but as I have said before I find it funny that people will trace my poster images and I will see them on live WWE events in the crowd. Now if only the WWE would start paying me to put my work on their tshirts. Well, let’s see if my mocking name I titled this will catch on as well.

The three men you see in the image above are three wrestlers. Heath Slater, Drew McIntyre, and Jinder Mahal. Collectively they are known in the WWE as 3MB (short for three man band). I prefer the new name I came up with “Ginger Mac-Hal” which plays on Jinder Mahal’s name.

This actually took me longer than I thought it would in my head. Trying to capture someone’s likeness without their face is tough.

Here they are in image shots from wwe.com for comparison.

For any wrestling fans that want my image as a wallpaper, contact me or comment on the size you would like and I’ll try to make it happen.

Oh and shout out to TK for his great tutorials and images which I used for the background of the poster.

January 23, 2013
How to Operate a Dual Flush Toilet

You would think today’s cartoon has nothing to do with Australia. But you would be wrong. In an effort to conserve water, dual flush toilets have been installed in a whole bunch of places including all the hotels we stayed in. Some, unfortunately, didn’t work as well as others.

For the uninformed, a dual flush toilet has two buttons. One that is a half flush for liquids and the other a full flush for solids. The problem is that in several situations the half flush wasn’t enough to actually flush everything down so it required another push. Usually the second push was the full flush button just to ensure there was no yellow in the bowl. So instead of using half the amount of water to flush, you end up using 50% more than a typical sing flush toilet.

Or maybe it was just operator error.

January 16, 2013
I love Kangaroo

So once again today’s cartoon was based in some semblance of truth. One of my top 3 things we did was visit the Australian Zoo (aka the Steve Irwin Zoo). Because of liability and stupid people, you don’t have the same level of interaction with animals in the U.S. as you can in Australia. We literally could enter the pen with the Kangaroos, Wallabies and Koalas.

BUT……………..as cute as they were and typically not being an adventurous eater, I only hesitated for a moment when I saw Kangaroo on the menu. Much like Ostrich or Buffalo is in the states, Kangaroo is a very lean meat. Unlike the other two it didn’t seem as gamey and was quite enjoyable.

One of the guides said we could minimize green house gases caused by cows by instead moving to a kangaroo diet for our meat. However, the guide wasn’t entirely correct. While the majority of methane that cows produce come from their burbs (an affliction that seemingly kangaroos are immune), the roos do fart. Yet the amount of methane produced by kangaroos is about 1/3 of that produced by cows. So why aren’t there kangaroo farms cropping up all over the states. Climate. According to this article “The meatier breeds do not thrive outside of the Australian climate. They are sensitive to humidity, which means that it’s very difficult to breed them outside of Australia.”

December 26, 2012
Guest Cartoon: Stef Marcinkowski
Stef Marcinkowski of the web graphic novel Sarah Zero, surprised me with this parody send up of Metallica’s album cover from “Master of Puppets”. The original can be found on Wikipedia

Check out Stef’s blogpost that describes his process. FIFTEEN HOURS, yes I said 15 hours to complete this monstrous task. And with an infant crawling around the house too. That is a true Bearmaniac!!

Guest Cartoon Request

Taking some time off the first couple weeks of December so if you are a webcomic artist looking to promote your work this is a great opportunity. I am doing a repeat of my very first guest cartoon request. Since I don’t have regular characters, I want to see you use your characters with a twist. Here is what I am looking for:
- Show us what one of your characters will look like at age 100 OR looked like at age one.
- Single Panel (max 500 pixel width)
- Give me a paragraph that describes your webcomic and who the character is that you have drawn
- Send to me bearmancartoons at yahoo.com
- Submit by November 20.
Need inspiration? Well you can check out the submissions from when I put out the call back in 2009 from George Ford, Dan Long, Byron Wilkins, Warren Frantz, Robert Matejcek aka Spilled Ink, and Nate Fakes
October 14, 2012
Social Media Copywrong

Today’s cartoon was inspired by some conversations I have been seeing more and more from cartoonists and graphic designers bemoaning the practice of companies who crowdsource graphic work. The process of crowdsourcing is where a company invites anyone and everyone to submit graphic/cartoon work but only choose one or a limited number of people to win. And even then there may or not be a monetary prize. Personally I don’t have a problem with the contests except when (and it is becoming all too frequent) when the contest rules state that any submissions become the property of the sponsoring company. BS!!!

However, some of my same friends who will be irate over crowdsourcing don’t seem to have any issues with illegally downloading music, tv shows, or movies. It becomes a larger group when you include some others that I follow on social media. Some complain when someone posts something they found/made without attribution to the original poster. I am in full agreement with that complaint provided that you aren’t yourself in the practice of stealing content from someone else.

Know your meme is a great site to find out the history behind certain memes that suddenly become popular on social media.

Those of you who are artists/designers, what are your thoughts on crowdsourcing design work?

October 7, 2012