Raids by local law enforcement (with help from federal agencies as well) on local “smoke shops” for selling the “bath salts” that were much in the news. and other artificial and legally-fuzzy substances, led to this cartoon combining all that with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Asheville is in the national news again, as President Obama visits for yet another trip to our mountains. Previous trips showed him to be a fan of local barbecue restaurant, 12 Bones, so people were lined up there, expecting him[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The explanations of this one are going to take a while, so get a cup of coffee: Well, this cartoon started out with me grasping for ideas for “local” events that I can turn into cartoons with something funny happening[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A local elementary school (Isaac Dickson Elementary) was vying for (increasingly depleted) county funds to build a better facility to replace their aging current one. While following the reporting of the County Commission meeting on my mobile device (yes, when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s comic represents a change in direction from a “controversial” and risky comic to a blander, but infinitely safer type of humor. Only insects and other “bug” termed arthropods and arachnids could take offense here (maybe, but who really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Being that a recent Buncombe County Commissioners’ decision to allow county employee domestic partners to have health and other benefits has brought the issue into the news again, it seems a good time to revisit older cartoons I did on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Again, the issue of whether the city of Asheville should extend the same benefits for city employee’s domestic partners and they for spouses (and then-mayor, Terry Bellamy’s objection to recognizing such non-traditional arrangements, due to her personal religious beliefs) were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The recent announcement that the city will no longer sponsor Bele Chere (a downtown street festival that has been around since 1979) affected people in different ways. Many locals have long derided the festival as no longer relevant to anything[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No need to explain this very local comic that alludes to proposed city budget cuts by the Asheville City Council (and to an actual triathlon that may be affected). I mean, it already has all the editorial cartoons tropes you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With looming city budget cuts in Asheville possibly affecting the local WNC Nature Center, this comic deals in sneaky and desperate methods the center could undertake to find ways to make ends meet. Word misunderstandings and double meanings are employed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Asheville inspires many epithets. Some borrowed, some brainstormed and some cast aspersionally upon it by both foes and former friends. Some try to capitalize on all of them, but sometimes it isn’t enough to just follow the marketing trends, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s cartoon complements the Mountain Xpress cover story which examines the current physician shortage affecting all but Madison in the 16-county region, and also explores the culpability of recent proposed state cuts to programs that provide low cost and accessible health care[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hundreds of protesters gathered last weekend in Asheville to protest “FrankenFood” (otherwise known as Genetically Modified Organisms) in general and Monsanto in particular. This was the local version of the international March Against Monsanto ( one of more than 350 held[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you don’t stop fighting over the water, I’m going to have to separate you.. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2013 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix
There were some criticisms lately here and there, about local media, but, much like the fine, handcrafted large-size beer steins available for enjoying a tall gallon of our great local craft brews, available for purchase in the River Arts District,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…