Today is the first day of Spring, the Vernal Equinox, a day of equal day and night (in theory, any way!) It is also the 50th anniversary year of pandas at the Smithsonian National Zoo, in the other Washington!
So, of course, we must celebrate the Nixon pandas!
I am only making some of this up.
Let’s see what other Spring ‘toons might be lurking in the archives…
The secret lives of the wild panda!On my honor, I will try…to eat as many cookies as I possibly can….
And, as the unionization effort ramps up at Starbucks, I am reminded of my experience in the coffee mines, lo these many years ago!
This was way too much fun. :o)
Solidarity forever, guys!
There are still about 12 felted kitties left! Check out the Felties Revisited page for details!
If you didn’t set your clocks back last night, you are already late! That’s right! Most of the country goes on Daylight Saving Time today! I know I posted the following ‘toon. last week, but I love it so much I’m posting it again!
Fabulous Furry Friday KNOWS that this is one of your favorites!
I was informed by some very pedantic grammar person, that it is “daylight saving time” and NOT “daylight savingS time.” Sigh…there is no spell check in the inkwell!
Tomorrow is the favorite holiday of mathematicians everywhere: Pi Day (3/14)
Pandas, of course, think of it as “Pie Day” Because…who wouldn’t?
The Life of PIE….get it? *chortle chortle*
Or was it “The Life of Pooh?”
The irony of Mehitabel criticizing Pooh Bear for his wardrobe, does not escape me.I’m not sure Mehitabel has anything to talk about.
A reminder: The Felty Cat project is still going strong!
Check the felties revisited page to learn more about the project, and to fill to the form to order your felty kitty. At the moment there are still about 20 felty kitties remaining.
When I don’t have a planned theme for Sunday’s panda ‘toon Palooza, I sometimes randomly spin the date listing wheel and see what comes up. Maybe that will suggest a theme, or maybe I’ll just find some of my all time favorite ‘toons! Next week we return to Daylight Savings time, so that is a good place to start…
Maybe it’s an all Panda Kindergarten day!
spring back, fall forward?The panda kindergaten knows where you live.The panda kindergarten is so very helpful.Nothing like a bit of the great outdoors to straighten up the panda kindergarten.Put your paws together for the panda kindergarten!
Don’t you want to hire…
Nobody expects the panda kindergarten.
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Felty Polar Bear and her cubbies! Want em? Contact me!
It’s been a week, hasn’t it? Poot’n has invaded Ukraine, but the Ukrainians are fighting back hard and have no f**ks left to give. Europe has stepped up with aid and so has NATO. We are going to have our first female African American SCOTUS Justice, it the GQP can get its head out of its a** long enough to admit she is more qualified than the last 3 they rammed on to the court. Cue the “But maybe she is TOO qualified” chorus to start whining in 3…2…1…
Texas, Floriduh, and Oklahoma, oh and let’s not forget Virginia, are all trying to out do one another for the most regressive and cruel legislation on woman’s reproductive rights, health care for trans children, and education. I can only conclude that they want a beaten down, uneducated populace. No wonder Barker Carlson sings Poot’n’s praises.
sigh….
Let’s have some pandas! Time to spin the random ‘toon archive generator!
This is one of my earliest ‘toons and I dedicate it to James Fallows!“Wu calls his dance, ‘Ode to a Weaf’ “The panda kindergaten knows where you live.There…now do you see?Panda reproduction explainedOh, Mr. Bun! Where have you been?
Even though we no longer have any participants in The Panda Season of Love in the US of A, we are still interested observers (Not like THAT!!!) of the season! Here are some ‘toons from the archives celebrating this season of Love amongst the pandas!
I hope people haven’t had enough of silly love songs!it’s the panda, the panda season of love!The Scottish pandas have had a few disappointments…A bear by any other name, would still smell pretty funky.
A panda by any other name, would smell…well, they would just smell…“It was dark….there were men in masks….”Um…pass the beer and poutine, please!
To celebrate the Panda Season of Love, all feltie panda orders (or any other kind of feltie) will come with a complimentary roll of Panda Season of Love Washi tape. Want to see what we have in the way of Felites? Fill in the comment form below and I can send you pictures of available felt creations.
I’m working on a collection I’m almost ready to launch, which are NOT pandas! What could they be? I just need to make a few more and then I will announce them!
Here is a picture of the actual tape! The Panda Season of Love tape is on the bottom. All styles of tape are available for a set of 4 for $18 including US shipping.
Baaaa Baaa Ba Ba Ba Baaaa Baa Ba ba ba baaa Ba ba ba bubbuabuh ba BAAAAAAHHHH! (that was the Olympic theme song, if you missed it!)
This cartoon is one of Bob’s earliest appearances!The Pandas first attempt at Olympic Glory!‘and for the record, it’s just “giant slalom.” It’s not just for pandas.’Pandas using performance enhancing substances? Say it isn’t so!Huzzah!Going for the …um…chocolate chip.
I’m hoping to have some new Panda-O-Lympic ‘toons for you this week! We shall see, won’t we?
The 2022 Olympic Games have begun, so while Team Panda ties their skate laces, finds their way to the ski slopes and loads up the front of their Bob-sled..oops…I mean bribe the judges…um…that wasn’t us…
So let’s take a look at the panda performances in past Olympic competitions…
Is that the twins I see before me? Don’t tell Lun Lunanother boring rerunDid the Torch Bears take a wrong turn????but now what will they do when they get to the Olympics?…..stay tuned!Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion of this story!Oh, those Torch bears!Hey! watch where you put that torch!
We’ll be back next Sunday with more highlights from the past panda olympics! Stay ‘Tooned!
We thought this would be a better year than 2020…ha ha…joke’s on us! Sigh…we did get the vaccine, but thanks to certain people who were all in on “personal bodily autonomy” (for this, anyway) who yelled (often right in people’s faces) “MY FREEDUMB!!!!” we have had to cope with ever more contagious and more deadly mutations of the virus. Probably the next one will spread just by reading about it on the inter webs.
But here we are. We have (hopefully) survived (this far). We will be back in the new year with more panda satire and more pandas to introduce. Bebe Maurice’s tiny sisters Fleur and Snowy will be making their debut in these pages. We will have our annual Year in Review where we look back at the ‘toons of last year. It’s always very interesting (to me, anyway) to see what ‘toons leap out at me as the most consequential or interesting or funny.
There is another Olympics for the pandas to compete in. They kind of missed this year’s Olympics, not really remembering that it was happening at all. But this is the Winter Olympics, and those are the Olympics that pandas like best!
The New Year is the Year of the Tiger, and Pinky is ready for it! Don’t tell Mommee, okay? Pinky has an upcoming campaign to start raising money for, so fire up the selfies with tigers! Really, don’t tell Mommee about this!
And now, let’s see what New Year’s Eve has in store for us at the Panda House…
And because it is still one of my favorite New Year’s Eve ‘toons…
The panda kindergarten at their best…or is that worst?
You better watch out….Who didn’t have a sibling like Pinky?Sad.
Sigh…remember when we thought that once Mittens lost, we would be rid of him? This ‘toon was written before the attempted overthrow of the government on January 6th.
It’s time to call it a day, Mittens!
I hope everyone had at least some joy over the recent holidays. It’s been a really hard year for most of us, and very terrible bad year for others. While some of us had the privilege to hide out from the day to day perils and anxieties, others were out on the front line, doing the work that needs to be done.
Many people are saying that The Panda Chronicles helps them get through the insanity that surrounds us, and I am so happy that I can do something useful from my fortress of solitude! I hope that I can keep writing and drawing about my favorite pandas far into the future! Thanks to all of you who cheer me on and find my panda ‘toons funny. Who would have guessed?
Tomorrow we return to The Bears of the Baskervilles. It’s been long enough since the last episode appeared here, that I thought it would be a good idea to start from the beginning. For the next 4 days, I’ll recap the earlier ‘toons, ending with the exciting ending/new ‘toons from the story. Huzzah!!!!
Snow and cold temperatures arrived here last night, so since I am stuck on my snowy hill, I guess I’ll get some work done!
