A wacky vision of the world that exposes the hidden hilarity in ordinary circumstances.
Cartoonist Dave Whamond offers an offbeat view of the world in Reality Check, his daily and Sunday comic panel that exposes the hidden hilarity in everyday situations. A thoroughly wacky look at life, Whamond explains, "I just frame some of the silliness of everyday life in the comic and invite people to take a double-take -- to look at life from another angle.
Reality Check is more a state of mind than anything else. The characters could be people you know -- maybe even a bit of yourself -- but the names have been changed to protect the innocent." Whamond was born in Edmonton, Alberta and grew up in the small northern Canadian town of Whitecourt where, he says, "there was nothing to do but draw cartoons." He discovered doodling at an early age, practiced through many math classes and attended the Alberta College of Art, where he studied visual communications and discovered his true passion -- cartooning and illustration.
Whamond freelanced at The Calgary Herald as an editorial cartoonist, sharing duties with the paper's staff cartoonist and publishing three cartoons a week while still in college. He honed his skills at the Herald for five years before devoting himself full-time to freelance illustration for magazines. Whamond's illustrations have been published in Sports Illustrated, National Geographic World, Financial Times, Owl Magazine, Psychology Today and T.V. Times, among others. He also illustrates a monthly feature for Sesame Street magazine.
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chireef said, 11 months ago
they don’t let me use white out any more, they say it’s to hard to get off the screen!!
Notsoastute said, 11 months ago
@chireef
That’s why I use an Etch_A_ Sketch as a monitor.
Sportymonk said, 11 months ago
Betty was a lady who wanted to be an artist but got married during WWII and had a child. When they divorced, she had to go to work as a secretary. She wasn’t a great typist but she put her skills to use and kept working to develop some goo that she could use to paint out her mistakes and retype them. Other secretaries loved it and she started paying her son and his friends $1/hr to fill empty fingernail polish bottles with her formula. Later she wold the company to Gillette.
But her son wouldn’t need that money as he would be famous and well off in his own right. And that is how Michael Nesmith of “The Monkees” mother invented Liquid Paper.
Allan said, 11 months ago
@Notsoastute
What’s the refresh rate on that? 1/1000th of a hertz?
RUBBER DUCKY said, 11 months ago
i tried to use white out…but my in laws are still there…..
bmonk said, 11 months ago
I knew a fellow who got stuck in the Great Flock Blizzard of December ‘97. He couldn’t even see out the kitchen windows because it was all covered, a total white-put.