Bogwatch

Drew this one back in 8th grade, when heavy rains turned the schoolyard into a mushy swamp. I remarked offahndedly to one my friends, "If this were a TV show, it would be called 'Bogwatch'." Then I wandered off and designed a cast of characters because I was bored.
Instead of a an actual Baywatch lifegaurds parallel, this had more of a park rangers vibe. Hubert "Bogger" Wall is the group's leader; Geena Davis is the animal specialist; Jake McGuffin is the flyboy tracker; Mollie Stevenson is the mechanic; and Peter "Smitty" Smith is a geologist, because I was running out of ideas at this point.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil

Today's J. Post cartoon

In response to remarks by American officials, Iran claimed that there is no need for Israel to have a nuclear defense umbrella. Obviously.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black ballpoint pen
Black 0.4 mm pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Today's J. Post cartoon

These guys really pissed me off. Orthodox Jews--rabbis for petessake--getting nabbed for corruption, fraud and trafficking. At least Bernie Madoff (guy on the right) never acted "holy". G-d, I really hate them.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black ballpoint pen
Black 0.4 mm pen
Black marker
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Djerii

These are character designs for a story idea I had called "NEMEOR: Power Twins", which never went anywhere. These are Bad Guy Aliens/Interdimensional Monsters, called Djerii.
The one on the left is from the Commanding Class, with a physique, as you can see, inspired by the Cthulhu mythos. They wear methane tanks for breathing; the mask hides a nasty-looking triple sideways mouth.
The one on the right is from the Fighters caste. I'm not quite sure how the blank face works--is it a mask, or weird fur, or something? Who knows.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil

Today's J. Post cartoon

Cliffs Notes version: Jerusalem hospital discovers that ultra-Orthodox mother is deliberately starving her son (possibly as part of a mental disorder). Mother gets arrested. Fellow hareidim riot. A lot.


Zing!

Drawn using:No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black ballpoint pen
Black marker
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Today's J. Post cartoon

An ammunition cache hidden in house exploded in Khirbat a-Silm, Lebanon; attempts at investigation by UNIFIL were rebuffed by local villagers throwing rocks and toting guns. 14 UNIFIL members were injured, not that I'm complaining or anything...



Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black ballpoint pen
Black 0.4 mm pen
Black marker
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Today's J. Post cartoon

Three in a row! Whee!


Police stormed the field to halt the beginning of the Maccabiah Games' softball tournament as the facilities apparently did not have the proper paperwork. This bit of idiocy led to their portrayal here as the Keystone Cops (the name "Keystone" is written on the front of their car in Hebrew; the Post edited it back to English, but no matter. You get the point).

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black ballpoint pen
Black 0.4 mm pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Today's J. Post cartoon

It's a long story, but suffice it to say that many hareidim in Jerusalem are rioting over the opening of a parking lot on Shabbos. This, in turn, has let to counter-demonstrations by secular residents. And Mayor Nir Barkat suffers through it all...

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black ballpoint pen
Black marker
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Today's J. Post cartoon

Starting now my cartoons for The Jerusalem Post will appear on this blog as they are published.
This one is a nice simple representation of the passing of the torch from the first Maccabiah to this year's eighteenth.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black ballpoint pen
Black 0.4 mm pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Pirates battling robotic tigers

Bit of a story behind this one. Back in August of '07 I included some random previews of what would be appearing in my GBFOS blog. One of them was "pirates battling robotic tigers". This was inspired by a mid-'60s Peanuts strip, in which Lucy offers to illustrate a cover for Snoopy's new novel (which, naturally, begins "It was a dark and stormy night"--another preview from the post); Snoopy suggests, "How about a bunch of pirates and Foreign Legionnaires fighting some cowboys with some lions and tigers and elephants leaping through the air at this girl who is tied to a submarine?" Bits of that stuck in my head, and ended up on the blog of some dude with weird hair. Eight months later, I got around to drawing it. (Lucy's version gets rejected because it "needs more tigers". Maybe if she had made the tigers robotic that wouldn't have happened.)

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue ballpoint pen

The League of Extraordinary Canines

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book series about famous literary figures with nominal superpowers (the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll, the Harkers from Dracula, etc.) who band together to fight other fictional people. So today I happened to think, "Well, all right, what about famous literary dogs?" The resulting effort appears before you.
Source books, clockwise, top left: Dr. Dolittle, White Fang, Old Yeller, 101 Dalmatians (yes, it was a book first), Lassie, The Call of the Wild.

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Blue ballpoint pen

WALL-I

I was bored and realized I could make a very bad pun out of this poster. Sue me.

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Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Some Teen Titan redesigns

In a moment of idleness I took upon myself the task of redesigning several comic book Titans in the style of the TV show. Clockwise from top left: Nightrider, Mirage, Offspring, Superboy, Talon, Prysm, Redwing, and Danny Chase. Both Nightrider and Mirage later made a cameo in a TTG! comic book, and both Redwing and a younger version of Superboy appeared online as original redesigns by TTG artist Todd Nauck.
Talon's look was influenced by him being a parallel opposite-Earth version of Robin; he has the same face but his hair spikes forward. Neat, huh?

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No. 2 pencil
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

My brother's bar mitzvah table-cards

When my brother Eli had his bar mitzvah, my mother decided that instead of numbering the tables for the guests to sit at, each table would be identified by a picture connected to that week's parshah (Yitro). Thus, instead of Tables 1-5, we had Table Moses, Table Aaron, Table Mt. Sinai, Table Moses's In-Laws, and Table Tablets.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil
Black marker
Black ballpoint pen
Blue colored pencil

Furious Five humanized

This is the Furious Five from Kung Fu Panda in human form. I was bored and creative, mmkay?
Left to right: Monkey, Crane, Viper, Mantis, Tigress.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0