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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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Howard Lou said, over 2 years ago
At my former workplace all the idiots were at the top.
GROG!
said, over 2 years ago
This reminds me of that line by Dark Helmet in Spaceballs.
q-bud0621 said, over 2 years ago
The federal agency I retired from seemed that as I got closer to retirement, the decision/policy makers got their by either being “yes” people or scheming the way up.
Amy Geiger said, over 2 years ago
Only if you are a gov’t employee; I once thought it was in self interest.
Zin Rosenblum said, over 2 years ago
A shout out to the under paid idiots
t jacobs said, over 2 years ago
get rid if the mouse.this comic doesn’t need that much help to fail.
Ken Twining said, over 2 years ago
Are any of those idiots “useful” ??
rekam
said, over 2 years ago
@t jacobs
Well, you should yourself an idiot too since Ralph is a squirrel.
Boots at the Boar said, over 2 years ago
“He rose to the level of his own incompetence.” I have always been either the addendum to or the page number on the org chart.
Jeff0811 said, over 2 years ago
@rekam
A-hahaha, I think what you meant to say was you showed yourself…
I wouldn’t be so bad off if I was merely surrounded by idiots. At least I am not the idiot next to me that is also surrounded by idiots. (All except me and the mouse with the curly tail, of course.
'nuffsaid
said, over 2 years ago
@Boots at the Boar
Ah, the old Peter Principle. Hadn’t thought of that in years.