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Going Outward Bound to Reach Your Inner Panda

 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!

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!

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…)

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.

Be the Bear!

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

More about studying from the masters….

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.

new years eve party, panda kindergarten

The panda kindergarten at their best...

 

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

Oh Boy! Two new inductees to the Roll of Honor! And Cuppycakes!

We are pleased to announce *2* new inductees to the Roll of Honor!  First, we would like to welcome Sue Frause, in the catagory of “Random Acts of Cuppycakes,”  for leaving a little package of cuppycakes on her doorknob before she went off on her errands.  Was that cool or what?   There she was on Fez Book talking about Farmer Bob making cuppycakes for her birthday, and I comment that I’ll be right over.  So, she writes back that she’ll leave some on the porch for me!  This is the very definition of awesome. And to top it off, she mentioned me ( Bob T. Panda) in her Seattle P.I. Blog, because after all, if you are talking about cuppycakes, you are talking about me!  So welcome to the Roll of Honor, Sue!  (Good cuppycakes, by the way!)

Our second lucky Roll of Honor inductee is Nina Laden, children’s author and illustrator extraordinaire,  for the wonderful panda earrings she made for me out of something called shrink film.  The little pandas are sitting and holding a pencil that is almost as big as the panda.  I’ll take a picture and post it.  They are really the cutest thing.  I can’t wait to wear them.  (They will look really good against my black ear fur!)  Opening the package totally made my day.  By the way, the reason I was so fortunate to receive this fabulous gift, was a little challenge that Nina was passing along, where the first 5 people who commented on this post from Nina (on Fez Book) would receive something from Nina, made by hand.  It is a little like a chain letter, as Nina said in the note that accompanied my earrings, but with the MAJOR difference that the recipients self-select themselves, as opposed to some %@@!#$$&* chain letter that you have no interest in perpetuating.  Also, then you get something cool and special made by hand (or by paw, in my case).  By the way, if you ever send me an actual chain letter, I will be the one that breaks the chain.  (Oh god, does this mean that the economic meltdown is ALL MY FAULT????)  Anyway, I’m working on my “made by hand thing” but if you’re not already on the list, it’s too late now. Sorry.  I highly recommend this kind of activity.  Thank’s Nina.  You are the Bear!

Till next time, when the panda kindergarten begins “helping” Bob with his campaign,

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

You Say “Privacy Policy”, I Say “Panda Kindergarten”

Do we really think that the panda kindergarten has turned over a new leaf, made new year’s resolutions, or really made any attempt whatsoever to clean up their act?  Nah!  What fun would that be?

Privacy Policy Implementation

 

Be the Bear!

Vote for Bob!

Bob T. Panda

Alas, Poor Twinkie…we will miss you……

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