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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Digital Frog
said, 5 months ago
Violins never solves anything.
capndunzzl said, 5 months ago
@Digital Frog
LOL!
Radish
said, 5 months ago
I look at your floor and I see it needs sweeping.
PICTO said, 5 months ago
But you just can’t fiddle with your Les Paul…
Citizen GROG!
said, 5 months ago
And the banjos start dueling.
Saskfan said, 5 months ago
@Digital Frog
Try adding sax. It might help. Sax and violins is quite popular these days.
Notsoastute said, 5 months ago
Hey, stop fiddling with your instrument, you’ll go blind !
JohnnyDiego said, 5 months ago
Whatever you do, don’t credit Eric Clapton.
Rockngolfer said, 5 months ago
You know who did a good job of covering that?
TP and an all star cast featuring Prince.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_2tSGxGnJQ
K M
said, 5 months ago
@Rockngolfer
Toilet paper!?
K M
said, 5 months ago
@JohnnyDiego
Back in those days you almost never credited anyone who played on your records. A horn player named Alan Civil was the first person I ever saw get a credit on a Beatle recording (“For No One” on “Revolver”). The piccolo trumpet player on “Penny Lane” never got a credit, although his name did surface many years later. When “Get Back” came out as “The Beatles with Billy Preston” it was huge in the industry. Heck, back in those days Jan and Dean and the Beach Boys used to sing on each other’s records; but they never got credited because they recorded for different labels, which would take major gas if it got out that their artists were recording for another label.
THEVIC IOUSDOUG MARTIG said, 5 months ago
All I am going to remember from today posts is all the “Sax” and “Violins” I’ll be traumatized!
DAZZ
said, 5 months ago
I have always loved the violin piece in Offenbach’s Euridce – incredibally romantic! I can hear it in my mind as I type.