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. In 2013, Whamond won the prestigious Reuben Award in the Best Newspaper Illustration division.
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win said, 10 months ago
Plotz!
pouncingtiger said, 10 months ago
The squirrel looks nauseated.
Arianne said, 10 months ago
This reminds me of the one scene from the show Grace Under Fire that I’ve never forgotten.
Grace’s rotund mother- in- law offers to take care of her kids for the night, but can’t resist getting in a dig by saying that they’ll finally get a good meal.
Grace returns fire and scores a direct hit, replying: “Just the crumbs off your blouse, alone, Jean…”
Prof danglais said, 10 months ago
Back in the 80s, when computer keyboards used a single light source, five horizontal channels with light detection diodes at the end of each channel and each key was literally a key that physically blocked appropriate channels to generate a code. I told one operator that she had at least three sugars in her coffee. She was stupefied until I showed her the ‘garden’ growing in the syrup, inside her keyboard.
jeffc42
said, 10 months ago
I had an employee that ate at her desk. After she left, within a couple of months, there were several large clumps of mold growing on her old keyboard. I had to throw it away.
gforgina said, 10 months ago
Ugh..
Allan said, 10 months ago
Keyboards are actually dirtier than your toilet.
Season 7, Episode 22 “Hidden Nasties” (you know where to get it …)
chromosome
said, 10 months ago
At least he’s cleaning it up.
K M
said, 10 months ago
Back in the day, when you could smoke in the office, we had a guy who had so much ash in his keyboard that one day when he was out to lunch, we shook out his keyboard and got about 1/4: coverage on his desk. The desk was practically green with crud from his smoking; we attacked it, too, while he was out. When he returned, he stopped dead in the doorway and asked, stunned, “Who cleaned my desk?” Without looking up from my work, I replied, “I don’t know; the EPA guys stormed in in their moon suits and went nuts all over your desk. I guess there was some spare Superfund money available for it.”
Gi Joe said, 10 months ago
It would be funny if it weren’t true – that guy works in our office.