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
Car sharing is a thing. I felt like going with a filmed Warner Bros. or Disney grainy style cartoon look. Don’t know if comes across that way, but that’s what I was going for. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to make a living here. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2014 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix
Be car-full out there. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2014 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix
With major new breweries in Transylvania, Henderson and Buncombe counties in the area, the sipsters are about to eclipse the hipsters. (Unless they are one and the same.) __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m sorry the quality of writing on this comic has devolved to “Bazooka Joe” levels, but at least I spent time making the scenery pretty. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. ©[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pretending a cheap pun on the company’s name is actually some kind of commentary on the use of incentives by county commissions to attract businesses and the futility of expecting an equivalent amount of revenue in return, or something like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…