OK, because I just think they are so much more funny when seen all together, here are all three episodes of Wheel…of…Pandas! Yes it’s true, a new episode was completed today! Pretty neat, huh?
Episode 1
And yes, the new episode presented, of course by the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire, in all it’s glory,episode 3:
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
I know, I know. This was extremely tragic, horrific, and a whole lot of other bad things. However, we at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire firmly believe in the healing power of laughter and hope you do too. Because when it was all over and we had all seen the pictures of pandas being rescued and the devastation that the earthquake caused, the American pandas need to relieve the tension with a few cartoons.
Mehitabel would like to point out that she is NOT as insensitive as she is sometimes made out to be here.
The reference to a panda having a gun is from a earlier cartoon based on, you guessed it, the right to arm bears.
Here at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire we pride ourselves on the fact that there is no joke too lame for us to find a way to relate it to pandas.
Be the Bear!
As we continue our journey into advanced stages of Pandaphilia, something really exciting (if you have a kind of boring life, it was exciting) happened. I got a comment from a writer who was working on a book about pandas. He wanted to know how I started doing “panda satire” and whether I knew of other examples of pandas as humor material. Of course I had to look up his blog, to make sure he wasn’t some nut job, (or at least a harmless one, hopefully). He turned out to be Henry Nicholls, a serious writer of popular science with many magazine articles and a previous book to his credit. One thing led to another, and I offered to let him use one of my cartoons to appear in his book. Yay! It certainly was one of my proudest moments when I got my copy of The Way of the Panda hot off the press, with my very own cartoon in it. Attention Panda Shoppers! If you haven’t read this book, get it now! (available through Amazon and maybe your local bookstore.) Pandas, of course have written some of their own books as well:
But of course, sometimes when pandas write books, their um…fact thingies are not always um…welll…correct.
Well, till next time,
Be the Bear!
As we continue our journey into advanced stages of Pandaphilia, something really exciting (if you have a kind of boring life, it was exciting) happened. I got a comment from a writer who was working on a book about pandas. He wanted to know how I started doing “panda satire” and whether I knew of other examples of pandas as humor material. Of course I had to look up his blog, to make sure he wasn’t some nut job, (or at least a harmless one, hopefully). He turned out to be Henry Nicholls, a serious writer of popular science with many magazine articles and a previous book to his credit. One thing led to another, and I offered to let him use one of my cartoons to appear in his book. Yay! It certainly was one of my proudest moments when I got my copy of The Way of the Panda hot off the press, with my very own cartoon in it. Attention Panda Shoppers! If you haven’t read this book, get it now! (available through Amazon and maybe your local bookstore.) Pandas, of course have written some of their own books as well:
But of course, sometimes when pandas write books, their um…fact thingies are not always um…welll…correct.
Well, till next time,
Be the Bear!
Every once in a while, a story about pandas or a panda video makes us, here at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire, want to create a cartoon commemorating the moment. A few days ago we watched a video of a woman being overwhelmed by the panda kindergarten while having a “cuddle time with pandas”. Here is our interpretation of the event. I’m sure this has never actually happened. OK we’re pretty sure.
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
All of us in the panda-sphere are not so patiently waiting for Mei Xiang, the First lady of Pandas in our nations capital to…well, do something. Keepers at the zoo were first hopeful that she was “with cub” but now are not so sure. And yet, she continues with her hormonal hi-jinks while we all hover over our computers waiting and watching. So of course, it’s time for another cartoon.
Welcome to “Mei Watch”!
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
As a small bear, I loved game shows! to think that an everyday, run of the mill panda could win fabulous prizes by being on a game show? swell!
Be the bear!
Bob T. Panda