This was the very first cartoon I sent to Mountain Xpress in 2007, yet it never goes out of date. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2020 – Brent Brown, Brent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Scenes from Asheville in different eras of rise and decline. A third, modern, era was requested/suggested by the editors, so I added the (then current) year of 2010. The vertical version is shown below. Click to make larger: __________________________ Cartoon[…]↓ 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…
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…
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…
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…
No need to explain this very local comic that alludes to proposed city budget cuts by the Asheville City Council (and to an actual triathlon that may be affected). I mean, it already has all the editorial cartoons tropes you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With looming city budget cuts in Asheville possibly affecting the local WNC Nature Center, this comic deals in sneaky and desperate methods the center could undertake to find ways to make ends meet. Word misunderstandings and double meanings are employed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…