Category Archives: the essential pandaness of being

Going Outward Bound to Reach Your Inner Panda

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 Yes, we have another Roll of Honor inductee! Good friend and panda supporter, Ellen N. has been trying to get on the Roll of Honor for quite sometime, offering therapy services for Bob to help him deal with the panda kindergarten, among Bob’s many other problems.  Finally she suggested that the panda kindergarten be sent to an Outward Bound experience.  As per usual, here at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire  we can’t just take an idea at face value.  NOOOOO! We must twist and subvert the original idea until it only barely (or bearly) resembles the original idea because, well, we’re just that sort of bear!  So without further ado, here is today’s feature cartoon !

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

WARNING! Lazy bogus re-run post!

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Well, I do have a brand new cartoon, all ready to scan, but then my friends have lured me out for the evening to go to our beloved local movie theater in Langley, The Clyde Theater, even though it is a rotten, rainy night, and I should just stay home and scan and post, but I swear I’ll do it tomorrow.

But in case you were waiting all day, while I was being really disciplined and not getting on the computer before now, here’s a classic to tide you over!

 Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

WARNING! Lazy bogus re-run post!

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Well, I do have a brand new cartoon, all ready to scan, but then my friends have lured me out for the evening to go to our beloved local movie theater in Langley, The Clyde Theater, even though it is a rotten, rainy night, and I should just stay home and scan and post, but I swear I’ll do it tomorrow.

But in case you were waiting all day, while I was being really disciplined and not getting on the computer before now, here’s a classic to tide you over!

 Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

Today’s REAL post (as opposed to the bogus one, earlier…)

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In case anyone missed the Year of the Dragon cartoon that ran last month, I repeat it for you now, along with further dragon year/panda kindergarten adventures.

the year of the dragon, panda kindergarten

Perhaps Bob’s next book could be The Panda Kindergarten That Played With a Blow Torch.

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Bob T. (note to self: don’t forget to back up) Panda

For MEEEEEE? Oh, you shouldn’t have…..

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Happy Valentines day from Bob, Babette, Mehitabel, and, of course, the Panda Kindergarten.

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Bob T. (what happened to those chocolates?) Panda

More about studying from the masters….

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No, I’m not talking Rembrandt here, although once in a while I channel Carravagio in my compositions.  What I’m talking about are the cartooning greats:  Gary Larson, Bill Watterson, Scott Adams….recently I’ve been devouring Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau and the late, and extremely great Walt Kelly’s Pogo.  “We have met the enemy and he is us.”  Were truer words ever spoken in cartoons, let alone real life?  For some one who is notorious for only looking at the pictures in art books and not reading the text,  I am lovingly absorbing every word in these books, written by and about these cartoonist.  One comment made by Walt Kelly that was reported in the book struck a cord with me.  On being asked about the 500+ named characters, plus hundreds of un-named characters that appeared in his cartoons, he replied, “Well, I just assume that they have jobs in other cartoons when they are not here.”  People sometimes ask where I come up for the ideas for my cartoons.  I can now authoritatively say that my characters are really in charge.  I am just the person holding the pen.

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The panda kindergarten at their best...

 

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

Bob Throws His Bamboo into the Ring

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bob for pres

Vote the Panda Party!

It had to happen.  Even with the trials and tribulations of controlling  (HA!) the panda kindergarten, Bob feels that he has no choice but to declare his candidacy  for President.  Of course, there are many questions to be answered.  Does he have to declare zoo panda rental fees in his financial disclosures?  Will Babette be his “first lady”?  Will the panda kindergarten obtain positions in his cabinet?  And what about his birth certificate from the San Diego Zoo?

You can declare your support for a panda in the White House (the first since the Nixon Pandas took up residence there in 1972) by acquiring a Bob T. Panda for President bumper sticker from www.cafepress.com/pandyland

Now, a portion of our meager profits will be donated to Pandas International (no, really, you can ask them!) to support real, actual pandas!  After all, our cartoon ceases to be funny if pandas go extinct!  So, you can skin 2 cats with one purchase, aiding real pandas and declaring your fed-up-ed-ness with politics as usual.  Buy stuff with pandas at Cafe Press Pandyland.  Pandas everywhere will appreciate it.

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

Alas, Poor Twinkie…we will miss you……

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cuppycakes, ode to a twinkie Cuppycakes are in the news once again!  This time, it’s not cuppycake confiscation, but the demise of an American institution…yes, those little packaged snack cakes that are alleged to have a shelf life of a million years, are on their way out!.  I suppose that it is no mystery why the maker of Twinkies and Wonderbread has filed for bankruptcy.  I can’t remember the last time I ate one.  But still….

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

And Now, The Panda Kindergarten’s Tribute to the Year of the Dragon

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Well, I wasn’t going to post this until tomorrow, but since in China it is already the Year of the Dragon, I thought I should go ahead and let you in on the P.K.’s celebration.

the year of the dragon, panda kindergarten

I’d also like to once again thank all my friends, old and new, who have succumbed to pandaphilia!  It’s more fun with you than without you.

Be the Bear!

Bob T.(do you smell smoke?) Panda