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…
Posts Tagged city
Nature or Mature?
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…
Asheville inspires many epithets. Some borrowed, some brainstormed and some cast aspersionally upon it by both foes and former friends. Some try to capitalize on all of them, but sometimes it isn’t enough to just follow the marketing trends, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you don’t stop fighting over the water, I’m going to have to separate you.. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2013 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix
We’ve had a lot of rain this year. Hopefully enough. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2013 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix
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…
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…
Murmurs and rumors of potentially onerous metropolitan emolument costs cause buskers to cluster and abjure future censure. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2014 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix
Moogfest has been moved from New York to Asheville and sources say, it may now move to Durham. Are they to blame for being too ungrateful for the incentives the city and county gave them to prop up their privately-held[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Looks like the city got around to banning e-cigs. Originally published in the Asheville free alt weekly, “The Mountain Xpress” on 03-18-2015 ©2015 – Brent Brown, all rights reserved
With parking rates increasing and affordable housing still non-existent, what’s a local service wage worker to do? __________________________ Cartoon printed in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper: “The Mountain Xpress” and (sometimes) on their web site. © 2017 – Brent Brown,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No Vacant See
Makers are changing the city at a rapid pace. Check your pace, makers! __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2017 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix
Some signs are paid attention to more than others. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2018 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix
Luminaries
Some people were in the dark about Asheville’s restrictive light pollution ordinances until their recent enforcement on local businesses came to light. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2018 – Brent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…