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Vote for Monsterplex on Zuda

As many of my loyal readers will attest, I am a fulfiller of dreams.   Brock Heasley has such a dream.  His dream is to get a contract with DC Comics.  Brock is the mind behind Superfogeys, the webcomic about old superheroes in a nursing home (that yours truly provided a guest cartoon for just last month).  As good as Superfogeys is, Brock and his team have submitted MONSTERPLEX to Zuda.  Zuda is a site owned by DC and each month they pit 10 different webcomics against each other.  If he wins, he gets a one year contract to keep making it.

From Brocks site on how you can help:

1. First of all, go to http://www.zuda.com  Pretty cool, right?

2. Hit the “Sign Up!” link in the upper right hand corner. You can’t vote or interact with the site in any meaningful way without registering first (don’t worry, it’s painless and DC Comics won’t spam you afterwards).

3. Follow the instructions to create your Zuda account.

4. Click on the Zuda logo in the upper left corner of the screen to go back to the homepage.

5. Click on “VOTE” to go to the current competition.

6. Scroll down until you see MONSTERPLEX and then click on that!

7. Now, this is the good part. There’s a whole bunch of things you can do to support MONSTERPLEX and they’re all right here:

a. Click the VOTE button!

b. Give MONSTERPLEX a star rating under “Rate This Comic:” (5 is great, but follow your conscience.)

c. Click the red “+” sign to “Add to Your Favorites”

d. Scroll way down on the page and leave a comment!

So go off and do your good deed for the day.  Brock promises that if he wins, he will add a real Bear-Man to the monster mix who wears a beartoons.com t-shirt all the time.  OK, I totally made that up.  But I have dreams too you know.

Help the Hodges Charity Auction

Thanks to Tom Richmond for the heads up on this.  The National Cartoonists Society has banded together to support one of its own – Tim Hodge.  Tim’s son Matthew was in an auto accident five months ago and has since been in a coma.  As with most of us, we can handle short term illness but the financial toll of long term care is very harsh. 

So they set up a website HELP THE HODGES and have gathered some great things to auction off on ebay to support the Hodges.  The auction includes some great looking items including:

• All the pencil drawings for an entire Cinderella children’s book story (70 pieces of art)
• Space Ace poster signed by Don Bluth
• Dragon’s Lair poster signed by Don Bluth
• Princess & the Frog poster signed by animators, directors, producer and John Lasseter
• Charles Schulz drawing
• Original Mutts comic strip art
• Original Zits comic strip art
• Original Nancy comic strip art
• Original Baby Blues comic strip art
• Dumbo comic strip art
• Paul Coker, Jr. Frosty the Snowman
• Ren & Stimpy painting signed by Rosie O’Donnell
• Group drawing by 21 famous cartoonists
• Rocketeer artist proof sculpture

Check out auction and bid if you can.

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.

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