A local animator and cartoonist with national recognition, John Tayman of Lusby, has teamed up with The Bay Net to provide content animation for features and advertising.

 
 
 
 

Tayman produces www.Bangcartoon.com, with widely known NFL Football parodies and other issue-based cartoons, such as “Cheney’s Got a Gun.”

For three years Tayman, with the help of partner Tom Lacks in Ohio, has been parodying NFL news in the weekly Bang cartoons, with edgy commentary that has been discussed in NFL locker rooms and on television news across the country.

Tayman said he’s heard Bang cartoons have been talked about in professional locker rooms “more times than once, … and some of them kind of look at it like a badge of honor.”

Sometimes a cartoon’s subject will cause a bit of a stir among the people and places parodied. Tayman wound up on the 6 o’clock news in Detroit, after his pre-Superbowl cartoon featured a player giving a tour of the city’s crackhouses.

Apparently some affluent residents that didn’t even live in Detroit were offended and Tayman was called by a television news reporter. After a long interview in which Tayman defended his cartoon, he finally said sarcastically, “well I guess I’m sorry” if anyone was truly and deeply offended by a cartoon.

The TV news ran a report that Tayman apologized to Detroit and they featured 1 edited second of him saying, “I’m sorry.”

“I have heard through the grapevine, I’m kind of like an evil second cousin,” to the NFL leadership,” Tayman said.

A Bang cartoon titled “Going Poston” about a pair of influential NFL player agents, Kevin and Carl Poston, landed on ESPN, and upset some people in Cleveland.

The Bang Cartoon site is exploding with new hilarious content, in the form of downloadable “Podcasts” of radio comedy shows and sports talk shows.

Despite the name, Podcasts don’t require a special player or a Mac iPod, they are simple audio files that came be played on the computer or any digital player.

Internet Podcasts are a new interactive form of radio broadcasting, like AM that you can listen to a respond to, at your own pace.

Bang has five new Podcast shows: Meet the Mullettes, Ask Edna, The Red Hot Sports Chick, the Bang Cartoon Radio Hour and the Fan Hour.

Tayman and Lacks host the Radio Hour and Fan Hour, which are full length talk shows that cover professional football and sports news, and letters and comments from Bang Cartoon’s listeners and viewers.

The Red Hot Sports Chick features interviews and talk with Anita Marks, who currently hosts the Afternoon Drive Show on AM 1400 ESPN radio in Miami Beach and is a former WNFL quarterback.

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