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About Me

Big Fat Whale is a weekly comic strip by Brian McFadden that appears in The Boston Phoenix, Cleveland Free Times, Portland Phoenix, and Chico Beat.

"Big Fat Whale" cures poo-shyness!

My Interests

Comedy, sketch comedy, comics, comix, progressive politics, 128 when it's dark outside, mountain biking, atheism, secularism, science, robots, ventriloquism, fart jokes, scrimshaw

I'd like to meet:

Myself, but a cool version from a parallel universe.

Music:

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, Cool Hand Luke, Paper Moon, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?, Ghost World, Better Off Dead, The Long Goodbye, Mystery Train, Five Easy Pieces

Television:

Currently: Flight of the Conchords, Conan, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, This American Life, History Detectives, Frontline, NOW, The Office US, Peep Show, Battlestar Galactica, Saxondale

Pastly: Six Feet Under, Mr. Show, Arrested Development, Spaced, The Office, Freaks and Geeks, Kids in the Hall, Black Books, Curb Your Enthusiasm, I'm Alan Partridge, The Larry Sanders Show, Extras, Small Wonder

Heroes:

Steve Martin, Bill Murray, and Tom Silva

My Blog

Who Doth Blog?

Fellow weirdos, creeps, and deadbeats,If you were wondering why I no longer update this abomination of a MySpace blog, it's because I'm too lazy to cut and paste entries from my real blog, which is an...
Posted by Big Fat Whale on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:55:00 PST

Religious Pareidolia in Unlikely Places

click for comicOur nation's electoral system is biased against weekly cartoonists. With elections on Tuesdays, most of us can't do a timely cartoon about that week's results because our deadlines are ...
Posted by Big Fat Whale on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:30:00 PST

Pick Up Lines for Nerds & Dweebs

click for comicI'm just getting over a cold, and have to work on some other stuff. Thankfully this dumb cartoon doesn't require any explanation. I know the joke about the strong force doesn't really w...
Posted by Big Fat Whale on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:31:00 PST

Mass. Gubernatorial Race

I have a cartoon in this week's Phoenix about the race for governor here in Massachusetts. It's been a weird campaign, with the Republican Kerry Healey running some of the most negative ads in the cou...
Posted by Big Fat Whale on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:21:00 PST

Spurious Democratic Scandals

click for comicEvents are conspiring against me. I have no time to write a pithy entry about this cartoon. I'll just say that if the House predictions fail to materialize (or enough votes are Diebolde...
Posted by Big Fat Whale on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:04:00 PST

The Classic Comedies of Cyril DuFarge

click for comicThis cartoon came into existence after I mentioned the ending of the Dennis the Menace remake and my friend Rebecca asked, "Where Christopher Lloyd eats all the beans and has debilitati...
Posted by Big Fat Whale on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:07:00 PST

5 Years of Mostly Sucking!

BFW's fifth birthday was two days ago. I would've posted this then, but I just got back from SPX and had to have my car fixed. To celebrate this essentially meaningless milestone, I created a cartoon ...
Posted by Big Fat Whale on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:52:00 PST

Attack of the New Snacks!

click for comicThese are some dumb snacks I made up. I could claim that this is a commentary on obesity in America, but I'm not fooling anyone.I hate the water that condenses and pools at the top of k...
Posted by Big Fat Whale on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 05:48:00 PST

George Allen's Offend-A-Thon 2006

click for comicDid you know George Allen is an asshole? He is. This cartoon ended up being too similiar to this thing from Slate for me to bother writing a long post about Virginia politics.Also, Dick...
Posted by Big Fat Whale on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:27:00 PST

God's Goofballs & Practical Jokes

click for comicI came up with the phrase "God's Goofballs" last week and instantly fell in love with it. I was confident I'd be able to make something hilarious out of it. Instead, I was only able to ...
Posted by Big Fat Whale on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:21:00 PST