Okay, I was going to just let this domain expire and accept the very real fact that no one is interested enough in this project to continue updating the site here (especially since 1and1.com have raised the price of domain[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s cold this week, is the gist of this comic. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2014 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix
Famed reality TV show regular (Miami Ink, NY Ink) and tattoo shop owner/tattoo artist/irritableex-Mossadsoldier Ami James is opening another shop and this time it is right here in little old Asheville, NC. This bit of interesting news was not really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Being a multi-time “Beer City USA” winner, Asheville has many Craft brews and even some Craft cocktails, but recent news from Kraft™ foods gave this cartoon it’s punchline (also recalling last year’s Hostess™ products shortage.) __________________________ Cartoon originally published in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yet another cartoon about the weather, but couched in the false promise of actual commentary on the real climate change debate. Also it was set to appear in the print issue that would still be around on Groundhog Day, so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An actual local issue cartoon this week! It concerns a long-time neighborhood dispute over the erosion control at the latest megaChikHarrisFilTeeterAAA strip conglomeration under construction and the runoff affecting the Five Points neighborhood near it. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Duke Energy’s coal ash spill from one of it’s plants in Eden, NC into the nearby Dan River was a cause for concern that something similar to happen to Duke’s Asheville plant which is just across the interstate from our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey, it has snowed (and previous to that rained) a LOT. Here’s a cartoon that makes a funny out of a common name for a slang financial term that is also a weather term. That’s about all there is to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An itinerant snowy owl was found in the area, a long way from it’s normal habitat and travel route. Calling it a gender-neutral “Tundra” while rehabbing it locally, a DNA test found she was actually a he. This cartoon takes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the bon temps have rolled: __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2014 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix
Asheville (and particularly West Asheville) is having problems with graffiti vandals once again (or, still, if any of the previous bouts of it never actually abated) and this cartoon postulates what could possibly be the motive for such seemingly meaningless[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nearly a year ago, this cartoon was created in part as a generic response to recent spates of complaints about particular things in the paper that various axe-grinders had problems with. There have recently been a few more here and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Doing this “local topics” comic each week never allows me to tackle any national news item, but sometimes a local story goes viral and gets national attention (actually, that’s becoming a kind of a thing here in Asheville with The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
… Jack be quick… to get a petition drive going to stop this from happening, though he has no problem with the need for it in general, just not right here… __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pairing two different local stories — like this and that — to make one pointed cartoon joke. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2014 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix