Once again, a story has come across the airwaves that is just ripe for panda satire. And, as you know, we at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire can NEVER resist such a good story. It just makes me proud to be a cartoonist. The story of former Olympic torch bearers selling their torches on Ebay is one such story. Believe me, I am NOT making this up.
It’s all in the timing…..
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
It’s true. Sometimes I just can’t help being just the tiniest bit silly (As if you hadn’t noticed) but I crack myself up whenever I call Ling Ling and Tsing Tsing “the Nixon Pandas.” It’s really not my fault. In The Way of the Panda, that’s how writer Henry Nicholls refers to them in the chapter about panda diplomacy. Sometimes I really am NOT making things up. (but only rarely) Anyway, there have been several stories and articles floating around the internet about the 40th anniversary of Ling Ling and Tsing Tsing arriving in Washington D.C.
I hereby give you my version of the panda historical events 40 years ago this week.
I am only making some of this up. copyright 2012 -A. Belov
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
BTW: less than 200 visits are needed to bring my total views to 25,000! Invite your friends to play with the pandas!
Here at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire, we always get very excited when we have more than 100 visitors in a day. Does this mean that we are shallow bears and that we really need to get a life? Probably so, probably so. While Mini-Bob is away, I’ve been catching up on some classic bear stories. My all time favorite of favorites from when I was a little cubbie is, of course, Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner. I still find these books amazingly profound. No, really, I do. Not, only that, but Ernest H Shepard’s illustrations have a lot of influence on my cartoon drawing style. Just thought you should know. In Case You Were Wondering. (that was a Pooh-ism, in case you were wondering about that.)
Meanwhile in Pandyland, a new panda kindergarten escapade is in the works, for all you fans of panda kindergarten, and a new hand drawn, hand printed lithograph is going on the on-line auction block at Pandas International this week. The auction ends on April 29th so check it out! Here is the print being auctioned:
"Hi There" // Hand printed Lithograph// copyright A. Belov 2012
Do check it out at the Pandas International website. (link on the right hand side of this page, under “Sites Pandas Love”
Till next time, Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Here at the Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire, we always get very excited when we have more than 100 visitors in a day. Does this mean that we are shallow bears and that we really need to get a life? Probably so, probably so. While Mini-Bob is away, I’ve been catching up on some classic bear stories. My all time favorite of favorites from when I was a little cubbie is, of course, Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner. I still find these books amazingly profound. No, really, I do. Not, only that, but Ernest H Shepard’s illustrations have a lot of influence on my cartoon drawing style. Just thought you should know. In Case You Were Wondering. (that was a Pooh-ism, in case you were wondering about that.)
Meanwhile in Pandyland, a new panda kindergarten escapade is in the works, for all you fans of panda kindergarten, and a new hand drawn, hand printed lithograph is going on the on-line auction block at Pandas International this week. The auction ends on April 29th so check it out! Here is the print being auctioned:
"Hi There" // Hand printed Lithograph// copyright A. Belov 2012
Do check it out at the Pandas International website. (link on the right hand side of this page, under “Sites Pandas Love”
Till next time, Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
…yoga for pandas would be so popular! Or maybe it was the cuppycakes?
In other panda news around the world, extremely personal information about pandas (welcome to the panda season of lo-o-o-o-ove) has been circulating on the internet, especially on facebook. Well, to be a panda is to give up your privacy. We are so adorable that people just can’t get enough of us. What can I say? I was born to be popular, but really people, a little decorum is in order. I can’t imagine Babette will agree to photographers being present to commemorate our well…you know.
Meanwhile, rumors abound about the wife and child of Claude (aka “Clod”) Pandet, whom he abandoned in the Paris airport when he caught sight of Babette as she was boarding the plane for Singapore, to visit her dear friend Lucilla. Claude immediately offered to paint Babette’s portrait and they made plans to meet on her return from Singapore. Well, Babette had no idea that there was a Madame Pandet and a wee bebe Pandet, left like so much forgotten luggage in the baggage claim area. There is more to this story than meets the eye, I’m sure. We are awaiting photos of Madame Pandet, so that we can confront Clod… um… I mean Claude with the evidence. Poor Babette is beside herself, as she had NO idea that Clod ..um..Claude was such a cad.
In other news, Babette, the panda kindergarten and myself (Bob) send out get well wishes to some of our Facebook friends who are feeling under the weather, some with some rather serious stuff. We joke around a lot here at The Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire, but we are quite sincere in our affection for the people who love pandas and panda humor. Like Barbara Streisand sang, “People who love pandas are the luckiest people in the world…” So here is a little cartoon to let you know that pandas are standing by to make you feel better!
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
In honor of the announcement of impending pandamonium in Canada (our neighbor to the North), I thought I would pay a little homage to one of my favorite Canadian musicians.
Meet the Pandals!
And Babette is no sooner back from her trip to China (from which I have just seen some pictures) than she must get ready to go to PandaPalooza! at the San Diego Zoo this weekend. It is so hard being an international spokespanda!
Coming soon, more panda product endorsements, tails from Scotland, and product warning labels: There is no holding back!
Be the Bear
Bob T. Panda
People sometimes ask, “where can I find the fabulous Babette (and friends) paper dolls? Are they in stores? In movie theaters? Deserted, dark alleyways perhaps?”
And I say, “Oh no, they are right on my blog…why don’t you look through…um… say, the last 57 -85 posts…um…I think somewhere around early December, maybe…” Well, of course, who is going to go to all that trouble to find paper dolls that they can cut out and play with and take pictures of in exotic places? Well, actually a bunch of folks did do that, but it was when the posts were current, so they were easier to find. so, while I was reading one of my favorite blogs, http://justoutsidetheboxcartoon.com/ I read that she had special pages for fun stuff. Duh…dope slap…etc. So I thought I could do that! have a special page for the panda paper dolls! Huzzah! You can find it at the top of the main page! Have fun!
and don’t forget…Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
I have to start this post by thanking a tireless promoter of all things panda on Facebook. DoxieMom Pandamonium (not her real name, I would guess) posts compilation videos from the panda cams streamed from the US zoos, often Zoo Atlanta, since that is the home of our nations youngest panda. This is a huge amount of work, as she has to watch hours of videos to get these little 1.5 minute gems. Every once in a while she mentions that she doesn’t know how much longer she can do this, so we all whine and plead and then she relents and keeps doing it. She often gives these videos really clever names that leave me laughing out loud, and Mehitabel glaring at me from her perch on my drawing table, because I’ve disturbed her beauty sleep. Her most recent one was so funny (and such a great video that I’m not even going to admit how many times I have watched it) that the only thing I could think to do was steal the title for this cartoon. But I’m putting her on the Roll of Honor, so I hope she will forgive me.
DoxieMom Pandamonium : you are da Bear! Welcome!
So without any more fol-der-al, here is today’s 2012 Panda Preview of upcoming cartoons! (I stole this idea from Doonesbury ….if you are going to steal stuff, steal from the best, I always say!)
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Oh, the pandas are busy this spring! Here are some more of the exciting stories we will be covering soon! I would also like to jump about and clap my paws with glee ( which produces a kind of muffled, fuzzy sound) because there have been over 21,000 views of the Panda Chronicles! Huzzah!
The panda kindergarten: bringing chaos the world over!
We can’t tell you how sorry we are not to be at Pandapalooza at the San Diego Zoo this year, but we will be there in spirit, and start making plans for next year. (maybe with a book???) We did send along a few goodies for prizes at the conference. I hope YOU are a lucky winner!
Be the Bear!
Bob T. Panda
Yeah, yeah, I know, this is from the FALL equinox, but really, the equinox thing…it’s really the same, except that the days are getting longer instead of shorter. Alright…it’s not exactly the same, in fact, it’s completely different, but that does not matter!
spring back...fall forward...it's so confusing!
What’s important is that I can re-run this cartoon so that I can draw some new cartoons to bring you next week, and not have to work ALL day on saturday.
Don’t forget to turn your clocks…um..is it forward? I’ll find out if I’m late for yoga tomorrow.
Be the Bear!!
Bob T. Panda
PS…Did anyone hear about the cuppycake ATM on “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” this morning? Huzzah! cuppycakes make National Panda Radio!