Famed reality TV show regular (Miami Ink, NY Ink) and tattoo shop owner/tattoo artist/irritableex-Mossadsoldier Ami James is opening another shop and this time it is right here in little old Asheville, NC. This bit of interesting news was not really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Being a multi-time “Beer City USA” winner, Asheville has many Craft brews and even some Craft cocktails, but recent news from Kraft™ foods gave this cartoon it’s punchline (also recalling last year’s Hostess™ products shortage.) __________________________ Cartoon originally published in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Duke Energy’s coal ash spill from one of it’s plants in Eden, NC into the nearby Dan River was a cause for concern that something similar to happen to Duke’s Asheville plant which is just across the interstate from our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey, it has snowed (and previous to that rained) a LOT. Here’s a cartoon that makes a funny out of a common name for a slang financial term that is also a weather term. That’s about all there is to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Asheville (and particularly West Asheville) is having problems with graffiti vandals once again (or, still, if any of the previous bouts of it never actually abated) and this cartoon postulates what could possibly be the motive for such seemingly meaningless[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nearly a year ago, this cartoon was created in part as a generic response to recent spates of complaints about particular things in the paper that various axe-grinders had problems with. There have recently been a few more here and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
… Jack be quick… to get a petition drive going to stop this from happening, though he has no problem with the need for it in general, just not right here… __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pairing two different local stories — like this and that — to make one pointed cartoon joke. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2014 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix
Car sharing is a thing. I felt like going with a filmed Warner Bros. or Disney grainy style cartoon look. Don’t know if comes across that way, but that’s what I was going for. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With major new breweries in Transylvania, Henderson and Buncombe counties in the area, the sipsters are about to eclipse the hipsters. (Unless they are one and the same.) __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In our festival-laden area, it is just grazing the surface to mention those that are outstanding in their fields, such as Brewgrass and Moogfest (and there used to be Bele Chere). However, even bovine versions of these grassroots get-togethers would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you went to Geek Out 2014, you could have stopped by my table in artist alley. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2014 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix
Some local stories, you just can’t make up. (Some of this was made up, though.) __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2014 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix
A local thing happened and I did a cartoon about it.* *On my iPad, because I was at the beach, on vacation at the time. Therefore, excuse the font choice and drawing. Here is a horizontal version: __________________________[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Food trucks are old news, retail trucks are the new thing and up next…. __________________________ Cartoon originally published in the Asheville, NC alt weekly paper, “The Mountain Xpress”. © 2014 – Brent Brown, Brent Brown Graphix