Town Called Dobson Town Called Dobson Town Called Dobson is a liberal editorial cartoon in the form of a webcomic written and illustrated by Storm Bear. The week-daily cartoon deals with being a liberal in red America. The cultural clash between left vs. right politics is the main focus of the cartoon and reflects the creator's life growing up in Dobson, NC. It debuted on June 4, 2004. The first three strips were initially created as a one-day art project and was abandoned until the controversy over the Mohammad cartoons erupted. In the original strips, one of the main characters was named Johnny
Batey (sugar workers' town) Batey (sugar workers' town) A batey (plural is bateyes) is a settlement around a sugar mill. They can be found in Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. In Cuba and the Dominican Republic, the basic conglomerate unit of a sugar production is usually called an "ingenio." An ingenio consists of a central administrative office, a sugar cane mill, a sugar refinery, the town around the office and refinery, sugar fields ("campos de caña"), and miscellaneous production equipment like trucks, trains, tractors, weighing scales, and housing for workers, usually in what is called a "batey." A batey is a company town