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About Panda in Chief

Anne Belov paints, writes, makes prints, and is the founder of The Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire. You can find her paintings at the Rob Schouten Gallery and Fountainhead Gallery, her cartoons on The Panda Chronicles, and her new book here. She also writes regularly for The Whidbey Life Magazine, a free journal of art and culture on Whidbey Island. Her main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Grant for Panda Satire.

I think there needs to be some sort of “panda a day” thing for December, don’t you?

You are probably not aware of it, but did you know that December is the month of the Panda?  Right now you are thinking, she’s making this up…I just KNOW it!  And, um…you might be right.  But if it isn’t really the month of the panda, don’t you think it should be?

So here is my December challenge to myself:  To post a drawing of at least one panda per day during the entire month of December.  It has to be a NEW drawing or cartoon…no cheating by posting a re-run.  It can be a single panda, or it can be a “cartoon in progress.”  I haven’t yet decided if it should be one big drawing like the 30 days of pandas drawing last year….well, I have until tomorrow to figure it out.

What could be more fun than a car full of pandas?

Meanwhile, my work table is overflowing with books to be sent to all my Kickstarter supporters, and my plan is to have them all mailed or delivered before the end of next week.  Huzzah!  Then I can get back to painting and doing the 31 panda drawings that I just committed myself to.  (The pandas made me do it!)

Time to climb aboard the panda car!

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

I think there needs to be some sort of “panda a day” thing for December, don’t you?

You are probably not aware of it, but did you know that December is the month of the Panda?  Right now you are thinking, she’s making this up…I just KNOW it!  And, um…you might be right.  But if it isn’t really the month of the panda, don’t you think it should be?

So here is my December challenge to myself:  To post a drawing of at least one panda per day during the entire month of December.  It has to be a NEW drawing or cartoon…no cheating by posting a re-run.  It can be a single panda, or it can be a “cartoon in progress.”  I haven’t yet decided if it should be one big drawing like the 30 days of pandas drawing last year….well, I have until tomorrow to figure it out.

What could be more fun than a car full of pandas?

Meanwhile, my work table is overflowing with books to be sent to all my Kickstarter supporters, and my plan is to have them all mailed or delivered before the end of next week.  Huzzah!  Then I can get back to painting and doing the 31 panda drawings that I just committed myself to.  (The pandas made me do it!)

Time to climb aboard the panda car!

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

A new cartoon! Powered by Cuppycakes!

…Or Twinkies to be more precise.  I couldn’t let a news story like the one about the impending bankruptcy of Hostess go un-satirized, now could I?

Bob, Bob, Bob…when will you ever learn?

Do you think I should get the panda kindergarten to help with packing books?  Nah…I didn’t think so either.  If you are in the neighborhood of Whidbey Island WA, there will be two opportunities to meet Bob T. Panda and get your copy of The Panda Chronicles Book 1: Your Brain on Pandas.  Saturday December 1st from 1-4 at the Rob Schouten Gallery in Greenbank, and Sunday December 9th at Moonraker Books in Langley.

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

A new cartoon! Powered by Cuppycakes!

…Or Twinkies to be more precise.  I couldn’t let a news story like the one about the impending bankruptcy of Hostess go un-satirized, now could I?

Bob, Bob, Bob…when will you ever learn?

Do you think I should get the panda kindergarten to help with packing books?  Nah…I didn’t think so either.  If you are in the neighborhood of Whidbey Island WA, there will be two opportunities to meet Bob T. Panda and get your copy of The Panda Chronicles Book 1: Your Brain on Pandas.  Saturday December 1st from 1-4 at the Rob Schouten Gallery in Greenbank, and Sunday December 9th at Moonraker Books in Langley.

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

After Black and White Friday, It’s time for ….

Pet Photos with Santa!  Huzzah!

‘Tis the Season!

Hope you are having a good start to your Holiday spending shopping season!

Be the Bear (and don’t forget to buy extra cuppycakes for those “drop in” panda visitors!)

Bob T. Panda

Bob T. Panda wants YOU……

It must be some basic failing of mine that I get somewhat…um…obsessed by the stats on my blog…I know I’m not the only one.

According to WordPress, I now have 183 subscribers. Wouldn’t it be cool if there were 200 of you by the end of the year?

And then there is my new book!

Babette and Bee, the Bear have a “discussion”

WE at The Institute for Contemporary panda Satire would be ever so happy if you were to forward this link to a few of your humor loving friends and invite them to follow this blog.  (Don’t send it to people with no sense of humor…I’m sure you know a few….they just won’t get it and then they will think you are insane and talk about you in the lunch room at work and once THAT sort of thing get’s started…it’s all downhill from there if you know what I mean. I mean, how do you think I ended up doing panda satire?)

I think you get my point….

You are the Bears!  Stay tuned for some NEW cartoons this week!   Huzzah!

Bob T. Panda

Bob T. Panda wants YOU……

It must be some basic failing of mine that I get somewhat…um…obsessed by the stats on my blog…I know I’m not the only one.

According to WordPress, I now have 183 subscribers. Wouldn’t it be cool if there were 200 of you by the end of the year?

And then there is my new book!

Babette and Bee, the Bear have a “discussion”

WE at The Institute for Contemporary panda Satire would be ever so happy if you were to forward this link to a few of your humor loving friends and invite them to follow this blog.  (Don’t send it to people with no sense of humor…I’m sure you know a few….they just won’t get it and then they will think you are insane and talk about you in the lunch room at work and once THAT sort of thing get’s started…it’s all downhill from there if you know what I mean. I mean, how do you think I ended up doing panda satire?)

I think you get my point….

You are the Bears!  Stay tuned for some NEW cartoons this week!   Huzzah!

Bob T. Panda

What part of “I win” don’t you understand?

Oh my, Bob is in it up to his furry little eyeballs!  Tune in tomorrow to see further debates between Bob and…that…that CAT!!!!!

But we do not want to leave you panda-less (not to mention pants-less) another day, so we bring you another selection from the best of pandas archive here at The Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire!  Those of you in the US may have noticed that Thanksgiving is a little early this year, and retailers are not wasting any time getting out announcements of “Black Friday” sales, or as we like to refer to it as, “Black and White Friday”….

Black friday shopping tactics

Ah, fall…or something…is in the air!

As the year comes to a close, I invite you to invite three or more friends to join us at the Panda Chronicles! Wouldn’t it be cool if we could reach 50,000 views and 200 followers by the end of the year?  Well, I think it would be cool, but maybe that’s just me.  We can do this, panda fans!

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

We do not concede this election!

AS I may have stated, here in the Panda Universe, we are on a different time configuration than the real world. Yes I did hear something about the election being over in the US.   Maybe it was just a collective sigh of relief……but Bob T. Panda says “It ain’t over till the Fat Panda Sings!”   “OOOOWWWW Babette, I did NOT mean you.”

Well, anyway, here is a brand new cartoon!   Huzzah!

Cats….you just can’t trust em.

Be the bear!

Bob T. Panda