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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Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich
Red and Rover by Brian Basset
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naturally_easy said, 11 months ago
Now if you can just get her to roll around in a pit full of night crawlers….
pouncingtiger said, 11 months ago
I look and he is hooked.
GoodQuestion
said, 11 months ago
@pouncingtiger
She does look like a hooker . . . . ☻
Bargrove said, 11 months ago
Once I had designs on a tatooed lady.
CHAZ.SHIELDS said, 11 months ago
@Bargrove
Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you met Lydia?
Lydia the tattooed lady
She has eyes that men adore so
And a torso even more so
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclopedia
Lydia, the queen of tattoo
On her back is the Battle of Waterloo
Beside it the Wreck of the Hesperus, too
And proudly above waves the red, white and blue
You can learn a lot from Lydia
Digital Frog
said, 11 months ago
@Bargrove
Ouch! good one.
hippogriff said, 11 months ago
Yip Harburg, like most composers and lyricists, was frequently asked who his favorite was to sing his verses. Nobody believed him when he said Groucho Marx. Never mind Over the Rainbow, Brother Can you Spare a Dime, or any of his other wide-ranging subjects, Groucho’s performance of Lydia shows he was giving a serious reply.
RUBBER DUCKY said, 11 months ago
i wonder if she ties her own flies, or eats them
CDK said, 11 months ago
I saw one of those onetime. It asked what I was staring at? I said that was what I was pondering. Then it hit me.
Notsoastute said, 11 months ago
@CDK
I was on pins and needles for the outcome of your story.
comicnut4636 said, 11 months ago
Human????
That's Dr. K.FG!! said, 11 months ago
That’s just scary!!…..