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About Reality Check
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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mjm313
said, 12 months ago
I used to be a happy child, but because of conversations like this, I have groan.
BRI-NO-MITE!! said, 12 months ago
GROAN, indeed.
pouncingtiger said, 12 months ago
Try counting ants in your sleep.
Slywlf
said, 12 months ago
I felt it coming, a felt it coming… and yet I still groaned when it arrived. Good puns will do that ;-)
Saskfan said, 12 months ago
Bad puns are the best puns!
D-squared said, 12 months ago
baroom-ching!
Arianne said, 12 months ago
That’ll teach him to get a snootful at bedtime!
hippogriff said, 12 months ago
Formic! That’s what ant acid is.
bmonk said, 12 months ago
@THEVIC IOUSDOUG MARTIG
Yes. The one with the theme that went:
“Dead ant . . . dead ant . . . dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant! Dead a-a-a-ant!”
Blackwolff9
said, 12 months ago
@THEVIC IOUSDOUG MARTIG
“The Ant and the Aardvark” from “The Pink Panther Show”.
snarky1941 said, 12 months ago
Isn’t it time for an uncle joke? Of course, that could be very depressing.
chromosome
said, 12 months ago
He needs an ant-idote.
bmonk said, 12 months ago
@snarky1941
I only know one bad uncle joke:
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A pregnant woman is into a car accident and falls into a deep coma, only regaining consciousness after nearly six months. She sees that she is no longer pregnant. Frantically, she asks the doctor about her baby.
The doctor replies, “Ma’am, you had twins! A boy and a girl. The babies are fine. Your brother came in and named them.”
The woman thinks to herself, “Oh no, not my brother — he’s an idiot!” Expecting the worst, she asks the doctor, “Well, what’s the girl’s name?”
“Denise,” the doctor says.
The new mother thinks, “Wow, that’s not a bad name! Guess I was wrong about my brother. I like Denise!” Then she asks the doctor, “What’s the boy’s name?”
The doctor replies, “De-nephew”.
Keith Churchill
said, 12 months ago
nice one :)