Back in 2008, much like in modern times, you could watch a used car sales pitch during local news commercial breaks, and be unsettled by the beard, as much as the paid spokesman cum weatherman. Trying to tie the punchline[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The season is the reason for this cartoon. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2010 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix
Sometimes, careless tourists have been bitten by bears, which then were killed by park officials. Many more careless tourists have met their deaths via waterfall, but those killer waterfalls are still running around free. Also available in a more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think this is the first appearance of the knowledgeable, but stuffy, Naturalist character I made for such uses as smugly dismissing dubious folklore claims that appear every year around this time. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A lot of homes are being invaded lately by non-natives. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2018 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix
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…
With so many urban incarnations of rural traditions, turnabout should be fair play, or at least legalized. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2013 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix
It’s no secret that the weather here this year has been better for mushrooms, than for humans, to a record-setting degree. It also doesn’t hurt the comedy to insert a few place-switching jokes about pizza place names, psychoactive-indole-alkaloids-containing natural supplements, and recent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A recent expose about the problem of illiegal ginseng poaching (due to the high value of the root of the plant in Asian markets) coincided with the pop culture apex of a particular AMC drama that is reaching the end[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A surge of bear activity in the area recently is attributed to a lack of acorns and other food sources for the hungry ursine pic-a-nickers looking to put on some winter hibernating poundage. But could the true reason be another[…]↓ 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…
Just because fracking (which is the popular term for hydraulic fracturing [which is the popular term for injecting a poisonous cocktail of high-pressure streams of trade-secret ingredients into the ground] in the quest for harvesting a lucrative crop of natural[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new season brings a flood of new hope but lingering leftovers from the weekend’s events may clog the flow. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2014 – Brent Brown, Brent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
