We find our local news in the national spotlight once again with Brasstown’s traditional New Year’s Possum Drop affected by a legal ruling resulting from a case brought by PETA about the marsupial-dangling holiday event. This cartoon expresses a somewhat[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With the increasing interest in the use of (formerly-considered-waste-now-sought-after-liquid-gold) used cooking oil as bio-fuel, there have been many instances of thieves helping themselves to the disposed resource before the proper recipients can collect it. Imagining a crime unit designed to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Raids by local law enforcement (with help from federal agencies as well) on local “smoke shops” for selling the “bath salts” that were much in the news. and other artificial and legally-fuzzy substances, led to this cartoon combining all that with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just a fallback on an easy subject to come up with when nothing topical strikes my fancy (or I can’t come up with anything and a deadline is approaching). Weather. Of course, even weather is now a highly politicized topic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A building in Downtown Asheville, NC (later found to have been in the process of an unpermitted renovation) collapsed and affected surrounding structures. Since no one was hurt, it seemed okay to use the incident for an inoffensive little story[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
North Carolina’s newly introduced Nipple Ban legislation has made some national headlines lately. This followed on heels of another successful, heavily-attended local NC gun show, where any mention of banning certain types of assault weapons or even improving security at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yet another rate hike request from Duke Energy and other rising costs in the news, came along the same time as bills proposed by the NC General Assembly to reduce unemployment benefits and the US Postal Service eliminating their Saturday[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Asheville is in the national news again, as President Obama visits for yet another trip to our mountains. Previous trips showed him to be a fan of local barbecue restaurant, 12 Bones, so people were lined up there, expecting him[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The sprawling shopping/residential complex owned by Biltmore Farms (and sometimes disparagingly referred to by some as “that fake city”) was granted permission by local authorities for an even larger sign acknowledging their existence to passing interstate traffic than the already[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The explanations of this one are going to take a while, so get a cup of coffee: Well, this cartoon started out with me grasping for ideas for “local” events that I can turn into cartoons with something funny happening[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A local elementary school (Isaac Dickson Elementary) was vying for (increasingly depleted) county funds to build a better facility to replace their aging current one. While following the reporting of the County Commission meeting on my mobile device (yes, when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This cartoon, which attempts to illustrate the impossibility of creating humor in a highly politically-correct climate, comes on the heels of a previous cartoon that elicited a few highly charged complaints. Firstly, this Letter to the Editor from Susan Bean with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s comic represents a change in direction from a “controversial” and risky comic to a blander, but infinitely safer type of humor. Only insects and other “bug” termed arthropods and arachnids could take offense here (maybe, but who really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Being that a recent Buncombe County Commissioners’ decision to allow county employee domestic partners to have health and other benefits has brought the issue into the news again, it seems a good time to revisit older cartoons I did on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Again, the issue of whether the city of Asheville should extend the same benefits for city employee’s domestic partners and they for spouses (and then-mayor, Terry Bellamy’s objection to recognizing such non-traditional arrangements, due to her personal religious beliefs) were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…