What could be more appropriate to illustrate the letter “K” than KINDERGARTEN? And by that we mean, the PANDA Kindergarten, of course! Huzzah!
And is that young master Wu, as a new kindy-gartener? I do SO hope the rest of the P.K. don’t teach him any bad habits!
Stay tuned til tomorrow, with a NEW feature length cartoon!
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
ILLICIT cuppycake distribution is happening on the street? If young pandas can’t get cake at home, who knows where they will turn!
Legalize cake today! Prevent illicit cuppycake activities.
:o)
Be the Bear!
Bob T. “I am not ashamed of my cake love” Panda
Hocus Pocus! A flying cake!
Watch as the Great Pandisto levitates a cake! Nothing up his sleeve!
And a big Pandy thank you for all the new followers here at The Panda Chronicles! We have passed 47,000 page views and we are within the realms of possibilities to reach 50,000 by December 31st. Is it wierd? yes, but it’s a really cheap Christmas present for the panda kindergarten!
Did you know you can follow the bears on twitter? Look for us on Twitter!
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Hocus Pocus! A flying cake!
Watch as the Great Pandisto levitates a cake! Nothing up his sleeve!
And a big Pandy thank you for all the new followers here at The Panda Chronicles! We have passed 47,000 page views and we are within the realms of possibilities to reach 50,000 by December 31st. Is it wierd? yes, but it’s a really cheap Christmas present for the panda kindergarten!
Did you know you can follow the bears on twitter? Look for us on Twitter!
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Close only counts in horseshoes and it is still December 9th here in the Pacific Time Zone! Keeping with the theme of “Thirty Six Views” where Mt. Fuji sometimes appears very small in the distance, here the cake exists only as a reflection.
Ta-da!
I see….cake.
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Those of you who have been following the pandas for a while know that I like to make the occasional “fine art” joke or reference and this series is no different. A few years ago I saw some of the prints by famed Japanese artist Hokusai that were part of the Thirty Six Views of Mt Fuji series, created between 1826 and 1833. French and American impressionists were very influenced by Japanese prints, so much so that French artist Henry Riviere created his series Thirty Six Views of the Eiffel Tower, which I also had the privilege to see at the same exhibition where I saw Hokusai’s prints.
But what the heck does this have to do with pandas and panda satire? I have decided to dedicate this series to those artists and call it:
Twenty six Views of Cake.
“Madame Babette sees all!: I see cake in my…er…your future!”
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Who says you can’t learn something from pandas?
As you know, I am particularly fond of “making it up as I go” and the “planning” for 31 days of pandas is no exceptions. So the panda and cake theme will continue tomorrow (while I narrow down the choices for a non-contoversial “F” word). I had already decided that at least one day a week I would post a full (NEW!) cartoon, starring the full Panda Chronicles cast, including Mehitabel, of course!
The idea for this cartoon is rooted in reality, as while on a recent trip, I was watching TV while following the news of Hurricane Sandy and the last days of the presidential election. A 5 second clip of panda toddlers at one of the panda ranches flashed on the screen, and I spent the next…um..well a while… waiting for the pandas to return…
Sigh….they never did.
It is a very good thing I don’t have regular access to television!
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda!
ESCAPE!!!!!! Yes, today’s panda word is Escape! While I’m diligently searching for an “F” word that I can use in polite company, tomorrow’s pandas will bring you a full on cartoon (with the lovely and charming Mehitabel!) as well as ..um…pandas!
and now…
Ta-da!
Escape! Come with me, little cake, so we can be alone together.
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
By the way, for fans of little Mr. Wu, he will be back soon! His mother thought that the panda kindergarten overstepped a few boundaries when they …um…baby sat with him during the letter “C” and that perhaps he should be just a little bigger before she let’s him play with the Pandy Kindy again.
Well despite the fact that I was at my first book launch party ever, put on by those fine folks at The Rob Schouten Gallery, I came home and got to work finishing my first cartoon of 31 days of Pandas! It is a “kinder and gentler” cartoon than usually appears on these pages, but I have been spending…um..a bit of time (do NOT ask how much time, because I’d probably lie about it) watching the newest San Diego Zoo Panda cub, who has just turned 4 months old this week.
This little guy has his picture in the dictionary, as an illustration of the word cute, so how could I not give him his own feature cartoon? So, without further ado, here’s Little Mr. Wu!
“Howdy do! I’m Mr. Wu! Who are you?”
Be the (incredibly cute) Bear!
Bob T. Panda
PS: if anyone asks, I did NOT eat ALL the cuppycakes at the book launch party, OK?
Hmmmm….now what is my favorite cartoon from the past year or so? Could it be:
Bears are on the ball!
or maybe it is this one….
The panda kindergarten at their best…or is that their worst?
Or perhaps it is THIS one…
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Any who, stay tuned for 31 new pandas in 31 days…can she do it? Will the rapidographs clog up? Run out of ink? Where will all those pandas sleep? And what if we run out of cuppycakes?
Hope to see any of you in the Whidbey Island vicinity at the Rob Schouten Gallery tomorrow or Moonraker Books on December 9th! Celebrate the release of The Panda Chronicles Book 1: Your Brain on Pandas!!!!
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda