Tag Archives: Bai Yun

It’s Christmas Eve…Day 24 and “All I Want for Christmas, is Wu!!!!!!”

It’s Christmas Eve and all the little panda kindergarteners are snug in their beds, hoping that Pandy Claws will come down the chimney with lots of gifts, conveniently overlooking how very NOT good they have been this past year. Do we need to count the ways? I think not…we are hoping that Pandy Claws will overlook one …or …um…3,679 slightly naughty things they have done this year.

Those of us who are devoted to pandas have already gotten one very big gift this year, and that is of course our “little gift” Xiao Liwu, affectionately called “little Mr. Wu” by those of us who love him and would like to get our hands on his furry little patootie…oops. Excuse me…I get carried away when thinking of his cute Wu self. So today’s cartoon is dedicated to Mr. Wu.

Leaping out of his holiday wrapping, we want to take this little gift home with us!

I’m taking tomorrow off from posting, but I’ll be back with more pandas on Wednesday! You may have noticed that Mehitabel has been taking some time off from the pandas, but rest assured she is well and will be back in January to whip those panda kindergarteners into shape!

We do not forget the sadness we all felt earlier this fall when the new cub of our beloved Mei Xiang, did not survive this fall. No one said being an endangered species was going to be easy. We love our smallest bear in San Diego no less, and perhaps a bit more, than we might have otherwise. To those of us who are having a less than jolly holiday, we hope we pandas have lightened the darkness just a little at least. There is much in the world both at large and personally that makes us wonder if there will be light after all the darkness. Keep the faith, and be the bears. I couldn’t do it without you.

Be the Bear,

Bob T. Panda

Now serving # 19!

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Well, my scanner issues are solved for the moment, though it was not without wailing and gnashing of teeth…the solution is temporary and I think I will have to take my trusty desktop (still running tiger, tiger) but I can scan for now! Huzzah!

So, here are the last two days cartoons, scanned so you can see all that little fine rapidograph line work that makes my drawings so very …um…very.

Day 17…Naughty or Nice? you decide!

Babette, in her leading lady role in Wagner’s Cuppycake cycle

And now, the moment you have all been waiting for, another peek into the den of Young Master Wu!!!!! Huzzah! (Oh I just love that panda to pieces!)

Mr. Wu figures out just WHY those so called “Dr. Examinations” happen!

And don’t forget, you have till December 31st to take advantage of $2 off the cover price of The Panda Chronicles Book 1: Your Brain on Pandas by ordering through my Create Space e-store and using the code:

MYLV7WC2

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

Now serving # 19!

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So, here are the last two days cartoons, scanned so you can see all that little fine rapidograph line work that makes my drawings so very …um…very.

Day 17…Naughty or Nice? you decide!

Babette, in her leading lady role in Wagner’s Cuppycake cycle

And now, the moment you have all been waiting for, another peek into the den of Young Master Wu!!!!! Huzzah! (Oh I just love that panda to pieces!)

Mr. Wu figures out just WHY those so called “Dr. Examinations” happen!

MYLV7WC2

Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

Day One of 31 days of Pandas! Huzzah!!!!!!

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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?

In honor of our favorite chubby cubbie…..

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Bai Yun’s newest offspring, affectionately known as #6, is started to crawl about in anticipation of becoming the latest media celebrity west of the Rockies.

#6 is getting ready to make his move!

Huzzah!….ooops.

It’s Monday! Time to Be the Bear!

Bob T. Panda

A Vision in Black and White…A New Ensemble`

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Why should zebras have all the fun? Babette thought she needed a new outfit (avec un belle chapeau!) for all her jet setting… southern California one day, Singapore the next, then it’s off to the French Alps to get in a little time on the slopes with with a mystery panda! So what could be more appropriate for a quick trip to the south of France (or maybe Disneyland?) than a glorious black and white striped asymmetrical ruffled blouse with a pleated skirt? I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking, Ingrid Bergman; Casablanca….And her hat? Oh that hat! Inspired by a little something her cousin Bai Yun of San Diego just “picked up” around the den.

And what about the news that pandas are moving to France? Sacre` Bleu! Cousins of Babette, no doubt. Will Sweetie rake Sunshine over the coals for applying for the post in unfashionable Edinburgh, (haggis? ugh! when we could have had French pastries??) when Paris was on offer? Stay tuned!

Be the (fashionable) Bear!

Bob T. Panda