A Beary Pleasant Nap

Rusty and Walter stay up Christmas Eve watching old Christmas films on television and eventually fall asleep together on Rusty's living room chair. Later, Santa arrives to bring them gifts and then he goes over to give Rusty a gentle head rub, which he enjoys while having a pleasant dream.

Merry Christmas!

(c) by Roger Adkins

Rusty Remembering Stan Lee

It is Monday, November 12, 2018 and both Rusty and Walter find out that Stan Lee, the creator of Marvel Comics, just passed away. Rusty also imagines some of his favorite Marvel characters with him too!

This is my Memorial Tribute to him.

(c) The Thing, Hulk, and Spider-Man by Marvel Comics
(c) Rusty, Walter, and this artwork by Roger Adkins

Powerball at the Fair

Rusty and Walter were having a fun night at the state fair when they came across Rupert Wolf hyping how easy it would be for anyone to win at his game by knocking over milk bottles with a baseball. What Rupert didn't tell anyone is that his aluminum milk bottles were weighed down with lead and glued with Grizzly Glue, known to hold any object in place no matter what force it came across and no one who tried even came close to success. Walter told Rusty to give it a shot and not to go gentle with these bottles, he didn't know if Rupert was a trustable character. That wolf told Rusty to go ahead and give it his best shot and that if he knocked all three bottles down that he could have any of the plushies above him. Rusty looked towards his best friend and said, "Wish me luck Walter!" to which he replied, " Go ahead Buddy!" Rupert grinned and let out a sinister giggle. Rusty threw the baseball to between the bottom of the bottles and they all flew off the table, to Rupert's amazement, along with the pieces of the table itself!

(c) by Roger Adkins

A Toast to Friendship

Rusty and Walter are having a toast to their friendship, with a couple of glasses of zinfandel wine, that they had since they first met when going to kindergarten as small children. They're all grown up now and having lunch together at the Café de Amigos in downtown Paw Valley.

(c) by Roger Adkins

Waking Up the Ticklish Bear

Yesterday, Walter came over to Rusty's home for a sleepover and then to go to the "Paw Valley Arts and Craft Fair" the next day. Walter got up early and wanted to get Rusty up out of bed and seeing his big bear feet sticking out from under the blanket, he grabbed a feather that Rusty collected, feathers that he found in the woods nearby, and tickled Rusty with it! Rusty tries to tough it out, partly for the fun of it, but they both know that he is too ticklish to hold out for long! :D

Media: ink, markers, and color pencils on drawing paper

(c) by Roger Adkins

Rusty's Wild Ride

Santa wasn't feeling good so he went looking for someone who could take his place on Christmas Eve and went to Paw Valley and recruited Rusty to deliver his gifts to the world's children. Then Rusty recruited his best friend, Walter, and Razortooth to help him with the incredible task that lies ahead of him. After Rusty left the ground, despite having the strength of a huge grizzly bear, he found out how tough it was to drive a sleigh being pulled by magic reindeer moving at the speed of light!

Media: ink, markers, and color pencils on drawing paper

(c) by Roger Adkins

The Bear Tickles the Raccoon

Rusty brought over a green feather that he found in the woods nearby and showed it to Walter, who said "It's nice, but what can you do with it?" Well, Rusty having been a victim to Walter's tickling for so long, grabbed his right ankle and replied "Let me show you!" Rusty kept moving the feather up and down along Walter's ticklish sole and got a lot of crazy laugher out of him!

(c) by Roger Adkins

San Francisco California Bear Flag 2

This is just a re-make of Rusty and Walter riding on a San Francisco cable car on a California State Flag!

media: ink, markers, and color pencils on drawing paper

California Bear Feet Flag

Rusty taking it easy on an inflatable lounge chair and on the California State Flag! 8D

The Friendly Bear Engineer

Waldorf, who is sending passengers from Chicago to San Francisco in his train the Ursine Major, stops in Paw Valley along the way. While over there he passes balloons to the kids at the station and everyone is having a great time! 8D

I made this fan art for Waldorf Ursine because he is a great guy and deserves something nice for his birthday!

Media: ink, markers, and color pencils on drawing paper 

The Bear and the Easter Bunnies

Rusty went to Spring Valley to hang out with the cuddly easter bunnies. Leslie gets to hug Rusty, while Larry gets his belly tickled! Lester wants to be picked up by his happy huge friend. Lloyd stands there looking at Larry and says "I told you not to lay in that bear's basket, you said he wouldn't do anything! HA! HA! You really did get the last laugh Larry, you asked for it! 8D

Happy Easter

Media: ink, markers, and color pencils on drawing paper

Get Well Grizzly Bear!

Poor unfortunate Rusty got caught outside in the rain the day before and got himself sick, luckily his best friend, Walter his there to help him out and gives him a nice hot bowl of chicken soup!

This is a drawing that I started in the Artist Alley at Further Confusion last weekend, then I spent the rest of the week coloring it at home when I had the time!

Media: ink, markers, and color pencils on drawing paper

Hey there, It's Rusty Bear!

Just a badge of Rusty that I made for Further Confusion, a furry convention in San Jose! 8D

The Friendly Bear Viking!

Rusty the Grizzly took his pose at displaying his might as a fierce Viking warrior, but instead of this he looks to his audience and waves! Walter can't believe how silly Rusty is sometimes! 8D

Media: ink, markers, and color pencils on drawing paper

The Happy Honey Bear

A truck that has been on route to a major warehouse had suddenly got a flat tire in the middle of Paw Valley. Rusty just happened to be strolling along the area when he noticed the truck just sitting there and the drivers about to call for a service job. Rusty grabbed a case of honey that his powerful sense of smell let him know about and brought the driver along with him to sit and enjoy the sweet food of the bees! I'm sure Rusty will share with the driver after a while! 8D

Media: ink, markers, and color pencils on drawing paper

Fishing with Dad!

This takes place when Rusty was a child and he was spending the day fishing with his dad, Benny, on Father's Day at Sapphire Lake! 8D

Celebration at the Cantina!

Walter and Rusty are having a good time visiting Mexico during Cinco de Mayo. It's been a fun night for them both, but they had a little too much cerveza at the cantina for their own good! 8D

It turns out that Cinco de Mayo is actually a bigger deal for America, especially California, than it is for Mexico, just a minor holiday there. They're actual independence day is in September, but these guys don't actually know that!

(c) Artwork by Roger Adkins

Media: ink, markers, and color pencils on drawing paper

St. Patrick's Day Fox Tickle

Vincent Fox thought that he could get away with taking some chocolate coins that were being sold for a charity on St. Patrick's Day in Paw Valley because the guards on watch, Walter and Rusty, had fallen asleep on the job. Luckily for them the squirrel living in the tree happens to have a feather to play with and wasn't about to let a fox steal from the pot of gold so he tickled Vincent's foot causing him to roar in laughter, waking the guardians of the gold and dropping the coins below. Too bad that Vincent found himself in such a ticklish situation! :D

This is a sequel to a drawing I made way back in 2008! 8D

Relaxing by the Palace

While visiting San Francisco again, Rusty and Razortooth decide that the lake by the Palace of Fine Arts is a nice place to take a dip and float around in the water. Them being two animals, a grizzly bear and an alligator, rarely seen outside of their natural environment, or a zoo, they get a lot of attention from those visiting this beautiful park! 8D

The Palace of Fine Arts was built in 1915 for the Panama Pacific World Exposition to celebrate the building of the Panama Canal, which is thousands of miles away, but San Francisco used it to show the world that the city was fully rebuilt and nicely put back together after the great Earthquake of 1906.

Rainy Day Strangers in San Francisco

Rusty is on a trip to San Francisco, where he just bought a scarf at Gump's department store and is carrying Walter along in the bag. He is walking up to his hotel up Powell St with cable cars passing along the way on a rainy day where he hopes not to frighten the people passing along him in the street! 8D

Media: ink, markers, and color paper on drawing paper