Top Posts of the Year

There are plenty of top lists going around this time of year. Too many are subjective. I give you the most objective one yet because it is based on data. Plus I top it off with interesting facts like there with only one exception, there were no commenters in 2008 who stuck around in 2009. That sole exception was Michael who does the Unemployed Dad webcomic who pays a vist every so often. 

The top 10 based on views of 2009

1. Bearman Cartoon: Swine Flu
2. Marge Simpson Playboy Centerfold Pictorial
3. Bearman Cartoon: Obama bows to Emperor
4. Bearman Cartoon: Swine Flu 2
5. Help make Marie Flanders the Newest Character on the Simpsons
6. Bearman Cartoon: 2012 and the End of Day
7. Create Cartoon Characters of Yourself
8. Oktoberfest T-shirt
9. Bearman Cartoon: Obama wins Peace Prize?
10. Bearman Cartoon: Bengals Beat Steelers

Now most of you didn’t find me until later in the year so not surprising the most commented posts came from the second half.

1. Celebrity Death Panel Part 6
2. Editorial Cartoon Caption Contest
3. Vanity License Plate
4. Marge Simpson Playboy Centerfold
5. Bearman Cartoon: Kanye West

And Finally the Top Five Commenters of 2009. 

1. The Friggin Loon
2. George Ford
3. Jammer
4. Robert Mateicek
5. Lynn

Thanks to all of you for your support in 2009.  Hope I don’t scare you off in 2010.  And feel free to fight for the top five commenters spot for next year.

Coffee, Tea or Depends

I worked on this editorial cartoon before I read that they are pulling back on the regulations but it still is a harsh reminder of how the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) can have a knee jerk reaction.

After the failed terror attempt on a Northwest Flight last week the following regulations went into effect for international flights:

Limiting international passengers to a single carry-on bag

Second-round security checks, including manual pat downs and body searches

On certain flights, disabling the map showing the plane’s progress and location

Prohibiting passengers from having blankets or pillows in their laps for the last hour of the flight

Requiring passengers to remain seated for the last hour of the flight

Now I have no problem with any of those things to promote security EXCEPT for the last one.  It is at the point in  the flight that they say I can’t get up for the bathroom, that I tend to always have to go.  There were domestic flights that I took after 9/11 that they told us we would not be able to get up during the flight (less than 2 hours) so we had better go to the bathroom before boarding.  Of course that was after I chugged a bottle of water.

When those of us with weak bladders and spastic colons are hindered in our ability to go when needed, then and only then have the terrorists really won.

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Guest Cartoon: Calamities of Nature

Head over to Tony Piro’s Calamities of Nature to see my guest cartoon that I did for his contest.  My topic was about 2012 and the end of the Mayan Calendar.

I wasn’t a winner by a long shot but Tony felt shamed into posting my cartoon anyway since I took the time to enter.  🙂

I’ll post it here in a few days.

ALSO

I don’t know how she found it but Midwest Mom over at hmmm-sweet-splendid-wisdom has found a picture of me and posted it on her site.  Go check it out here.

Bear Webcomics

Given that many a folk will shorten my name, Bearman, to just the friendly “Bear”, I thought I would honor all those that I know of with webcomics that include the word “bear” or have main characters that have a bear.  Anyone have or know of any missing, let me know.

First I want to highlight two frequent commenters here:

Unbearable Bears Presents by David LaMason – Oskar the Bear stars along with his bird friend Bainbridge and their musings on life in the woods.

Arctic Blast by Alfred Laird – comic based on the friendship of a Polar Bear, Seal, Inuit and a lost Flamingo and the adventures they find themselves involved in

Others I follow:

Ice Cubes Comics  by Leroy Brown with Pekinpaw the Polar Bear
Imagine This by Lucas Turnbloom with the “cute” Teddy Bear Clovis
Bear Nuts by Alison Acton

And others I found.
Bear and Tiger
Wally and Osborne
Bear vs Zombies
Bennie and Boone
The Devil Bear

Bearman Cartoon: Mom’s Christmas Gifts

Do you moms out there ever get anything they really want?

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