Brain Freeze: A Mr. Birch Cartoon Compilation

By Edward Mandara

Brain Freeze is a collection of political and social cartoons taken from the website www.mrbirch.com. Its characters include Mr. Birch, his students and a number of flawed adults. Some of the storylines feature talking turkeys, a Jewish snowman, an angry copy store worker, the Incredibles, Dick Cheney, old rock and rollers, Harry Potter, a fast ferry and Michael Jackson. Read, if you dare, the world of Mr. Birch by cartoonist Ed Mandara.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 28, 2008
• ISBN: 9781462825776

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Copyright © 2008 by Edward Mandara.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Ch 1.     A New School Year

September

Ch 2.     The First Holiday

October

Ch 3.     We eat Turkey’s, don’t we?

November

Ch 4.     Hanukkah, Chanukah and Christmas

December

Ch 5.     The New Fiscal Year

January

Ch 6.     Another break? You just had off for Christmas!

February

Ch 7.     Saint Patrick’s Day

March

Ch 8.     There are no beagles depicted in this Ch.

April

Ch 9.     The countdown has begun

May

Ch 10.   It’s here! It’s here! The last month of school!

June

Ch 11.   Summer’s here. There’s work to be done.

July

Ch. 12   Here comes school

August

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The above cartoon was a X-mas card that I sent out a few yrs. Ago

All Cartoons copyright by

Ed Mandara 2004-2008

My first attempt at creating cartoons was in college. I made 6 one-panel cartoons for the school magazine. I was excited to see my work in print. I found a job as a technical illustrator after graduation. I created a one panel cartoon starring an impish two fingered, two toed character called Scrag hoping he would be the next Ziggy. I put Scrag on t-shirts and greeting cards. I soon realized that I couldn’t make money selling the merchandise at craft shows. I received rejection letters from various syndicates and decided to go back to school to get my teaching degree.

I began creating generic one-panel cartoons after my marriage and teaching for a few years. One-panels were easy and quick. I have continued to send Christmas card cartoons for over15 years (see previous pg). King Feature Syndicate bought one of my cartoons.

I started drawing a version of Mr. Birch 10 years ago. A student teacher was instructing my class. We were having some conflicts so I thought instead of lashing out at him, that I would draw a cartoon about him. I figured a cartoon would be a better way of handling the situation. I wrote and sketched 3 cartoons and during the remainder of the week, I inked them. Throughout the next3 years, whenever a stressful situation arose, I created cartoons to help me