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Panda Satire Made Easy

It’s not like it happens every day, but pretty often, someone wants to know where my ideas come from, or if I’m on medication and am I feeling particularly excitable right now.  Well, just to set your mind at rest, “they” tell me I’m not dangerous (at least not at the moment) and I do have a method to my madness in developing ideas for my cartoons.  So, I wrote this little cartoon to explain my thought process. (Or should I say “thought” process?)   Also, Mehitabel was getting downright testy over not being the star in most of the new cartoons.  Personally, she would just as well take the panda kindergarten to the pound and let some other poor soul adopt them.  Alas, poor Mehitabel.  This is just not to be.

Panda Satire Made Easy

Also, I’d like to welcome our new subscribers!  Having people enjoy these cartoons helps make life worth living.  (and to all my friends who have to at least pretend to say they are funny, thank you too.)

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

Panda Satire Made Easy

It’s not like it happens every day, but pretty often, someone wants to know where my ideas come from, or if I’m on medication and am I feeling particularly excitable right now.  Well, just to set your mind at rest, “they” tell me I’m not dangerous (at least not at the moment) and I do have a method to my madness in developing ideas for my cartoons.  So, I wrote this little cartoon to explain my thought process. (Or should I say “thought” process?)   Also, Mehitabel was getting downright testy over not being the star in most of the new cartoons.  Personally, she would just as well take the panda kindergarten to the pound and let some other poor soul adopt them.  Alas, poor Mehitabel.  This is just not to be.

Panda Satire Made Easy

Also, I’d like to welcome our new subscribers!  Having people enjoy these cartoons helps make life worth living.  (and to all my friends who have to at least pretend to say they are funny, thank you too.)

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

Another Panda Valley Sunday…..

Out here in the Pacific Northwest we have a lot of weather that looks like those traditional Chinese landscape paintings, you know, kind of monochrome, lots of mist, rain, grayness, bases of mountains disappearing in the fog.  But has anyone sent us a couple of pandas? Noooooooooooo they have not. Whats up with that, I ask you?  Seems like one demand that should be made in the Occupy Wall Street movement is more pandas for the United States, especially in the Pacific Northwest.  We have the weather that pandas like (or at least they are used to it, so they probably wouldn’t complain much) so we should have some.

Pandify Wall Street.  That’s what I say!

Nobody expects the panda kindergarten!

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

 

But I Play One on Television….

OK, who out there remembers that commercial on TV (Note: this comes from the time before Tivo) where a TV Doctor starts a commercial by saying” I’m not a doctor, but I play one one television,”  and then gives you some advice on aspirin or hemorrhoid cream or something like that.  I mean, did anyone actually fall for that?  How stupid did they think we were?  Don’t answer that.  How could I resist the impulse to make this cartoon?

I'm not a doctor but I play one on television

I love my job.

Be the Bear

Bob T. Panda

Alas, Poor Chi Chi, I Knew Her…

Yes, panda fans, it’s time for the Scottish Play…er…cartoon I mean.  Here at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire we never miss the opportunity to make fun of current events in the panda world.   Well, actually, we’ll make fun of anything, whether it’s about pandas or not.  The return of pandas to Great Britain for the first time in almost 40 years is an event to be celebrated!  ( My panda historian friends will correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that Chi Chi, who lived at the London Zoo from 1958 until her death in 1972, was the last panda who lived in Great Britain.

The Scottish Cartoon

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

 

The Atlanta Surprise! (part 1)

Well knock me down and put feathers up my nose, I couldn’t have been more surprised at the news coming from the Panda Ranch and Day Spa in Chengdu.  Yup,  Mei Lan, Atlanta’s Beauty turns out to be a boy!  I suppose Lun Lun knew, but for some reason she didn’t say anything.  Panda watchers are all scratching their heads in wonder and embarrassment, no doubt.

Here’s the first of 2 cartoons on the subject, so hot off the press our pen is still smoking!

Stay tuned for the 2nd installment (Yes there really is one, it’s just not done yet)!

Till then, here is a little seasonal cheer from the Institute of Contemporary Panda Satire!

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

Coming SOON to the World of Internet Commerce….

Here at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire, we are pleased to announce that we are taking the leap to bring about panda proliferation!  Invite Bob T. Panda and friends into your home! Introducing the ShowUsTheMoney division of P.A.N.D,A. International and Way Better Than Working Cartoons:

I’ll let you know when things are up and running.

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

Once again it’s time for WHEEL….OF…PANDAS!

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:

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Bob T. Panda

 

School Days, School Days, Good Old Panda School Days…

No matter how old I get, September always means back to school, or at least back to work full steam ahead.  We at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire are very glad to see the panda kindergarten back in session. Very, very glad.

I’m sure lots of people are happy to see students head back to school.

Be the Bear

Bob T. Panda

How many pandas are there? Let me count the bears….

In a recent post by Henry Nicholls, author of The Way of the Panda, he talked about the upcoming panda census.  The various methods for counting wild pandas are fairly, well, quite frankly, some of them are just gross.  We at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire feel we have a better idea.  Just mail out the forms to the pandas and let them fill them out.  Don’t have their addresses?  Just leave them where pandas are sure to find them.

Ok, well, maybe not.

We thought it would be a good idea to re-run a quiz we gave last year in honor of the panda census.  Find out right now how far your panda obsession has gone!

Please answer the questions as honestly as possible as this will go on your permanent record.

1. How many stuffed pandas do you now own?

a) Oh, just a couple.

b) You can still see parts of my bed

c) None of your business

2. What percentage of your friends are now sending you pictures of pandas, panda cards or emails with pictures of the earthquake pandas?

a) 10%

b) 25%

c)I have no friends anymore, except for pandas, which all love me.

3.  What portion of your time do you spend thinking about pandas?

a) Just when I have my coffee in the morning.

b) Only when I’m awake.

c) What else could I possibly want to think about?

3.  Do you feel that your obssession with pandas is interfering with your daily life and ability to earn a living?

a) No, no, it’s no problem. Just talk amongst yourselves, while I look at pictures of earthquake pandas.

b) None of your business.

c) No, the cardboard box that I now live in is quite comfortable and I’ve drawn pictures of pandas all over the inside.

Hope this little quiz has been instructive!

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda