Today's J. Post cartoon

Oh, Hillary, if only life were that simple. (The scary part is, the Obama administration does seem to think that life is indeed that simple...)

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Black marker
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Touring in Tokyo

• First place winner, TitansGo.net "Trouble in Tokyo" DVD Giveaway contest, 2/21/07

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil
Colored pencils
Black ballpoint pen

I'm a Disney... I'm a WB

DC Comics has been a Warner Bros. property for decades, but when Disney recently bought Marvel Comics a new parallel was born. This is my take on it, inspired by the online "I'm a Marvel... I'm a DC" series.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.25 mm pilot pen
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Today's J. Post cartoon

The tripartate meeting being held in New York has had some issues...

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Far Side-esque

I based this on a throwaway line in a Terry Pratchett novel. The Larsonian style was mimicked from memory, right down to the signature. No copyright infringement intended.

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

Lantern Wilson of Sector 616

Actor Ryan Reynolds played Deadpool in the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie (and will reprise the role in an upcoming film about the character), and is also slated to star in Green Lantern. Naturally, when I heard about this, the misfired neurons in my brain posited: Hmm, why not combine the two characters? And so I did. And now you see what would happen if Deadpool got a Green Lantern ring. The end result, naturally, would be complete and utter chaos...

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.25 mm pilot pen
Adobe Illustrator 4.0

Today's J. Post cartoon

5770, here we come!

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black marker
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Today's J. Post cartoon

The World vs. The Madman of Iran...
The caption got removed from the printed version, probably due to space constraints.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Today's J. Post cartoon

This was fun to do--mimicking Charles Schulz's style in placing Obama at Lucy's psychiatry booth (presumably costing more than 5 cents). The cobwebs tell the story.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Teen Titans Forever (villains)

What would the Forever Titans be without worthy opponents to fight??
Top row (l-r): Mage, an ancient wizard's spirit possessing the Amazing Mumbo's body; Poltergeist, ghost powers; Doc Dimension, larcenous teleporter
Next row (l-r): Jack Caesar, delusional Greek-themed crime boss; Jailbird, fires concussive blasts; Entropy, powerful telepath and "chaos controller"; Current, electrical abilities; Wager, compulsive gambler and master criminal
Third row (l-r): Q'tongg, shapeshifting alien; Boom Box, demolitions expert; Acolyte, current leader of the HIVE; Upgrade, a cyborg; Laser, a newer, better and for some reason feminine version of Overload; Toxic, a living mass of poison
Fourth row (l-r): Sonix, deaf sound-manipulator; Optika, cybernetic eyewear; a time-displaced Billy Numerous
Bottom row (l-r): Yo-Yo, wields yo-yo based weaponry; Knockout, femme fatale; Vandal, superstrong brute; Null, power-nullifying thief
Knockout, Vandal, Upgrade, Billy Numerous, Yo-Yo and Sonix are the members of Team Trouble, the present-day counterpart of the HIVE Five. They lived in the abandoned Titans' Tower in Crime City until the Forever Titans came to kick them out and reclaim Jump City.
Whee!

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil

Teen Titans Forever (heroes)

Characters I drew for a semi-AU version of Teen Titans. The heroes' souls, hidden right before their imminent deaths, possess five friends about 50 years into the future. Now calling themselves Paragon (Robin), Shadow (Raven), Zoo Boy (Beast Boy), Nova (Starfire) and Techno (Cyborg), they head for Old Jump City, which in the Titans' absence had fallen on dire times and been renamed Crime City (most of the residents moved to New Jump City, where the group lived). Reborn, the Titans fight a new generation of villains alongside a new generation of heroes!
Top row (l-r): Intell, superintelligent gadgeteer; Flare, fire powers; Dynamo, electricity
Next row (l-r): Hydrus, Japan-based water controller; Annie O., Western-themed heroine; Gal Friday, Philippine fighter; Stalwart, superstrong Aborigine; Lady Liberty, patriotic sorceress
Third row (l-r): El Toro, Spanish strongman; Rushfire, Starfire's little brother who was lost for years in an alternate dimension with retarded aging effects; Nova; Dextra, stretching powers; Tyger, artificial mutant
Fourth row (l-r): X-Dude, hippie peacenik with limited control of the fabric of reality; YellowJacket, current holder of Gabriel's Horn; Zoo Boy; U-Gene, British shapeshifter
Bottom row (l-r): Shadow; Paragon; Techno; Lucky, probability manipulator with limited speed abilities
Lucky, Dextra, Rushfire, YellowJacket and X-Dude are all descendants of the original Teen Titans' contemporaries, and call themselves Generation neXt (or GenX for short).
Hydrus and Dynamo are long-lost twins, since reunited; the twist is that they genuinely hate each other's guts, and get along about as well as, well, water and electricity.
Robin's and Starfire's romance is complicated by the fact that their hosts are first cousins...

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil

Today's jpost.com cartoon

PM Netanyahu has decided to whitewash matters by refusing to term the settlement freeze a "freeze". Naturally, this should delight the settlers, rights?

Drawn using:
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black marker
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Today's J. Post cartoon

Swedish newspaper El Mundo drew criticism for interviewing notorious Holocaust denier David Irving as part of a series on World War II. I decided to give an artist's interpretation of the paper's typical content.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Today's jpost.com cartoon

When Meir Ronnen, longtime Post cartoonist, and Abigail R., the Post's op-ed editor who was also in charge of cartoons, died within a week of each other, it was indeed a very bad week. Read more about it here.
The caption was edited out of the online version. And I don't actually use a fountain pen.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil
Black ballpoint pen
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

He won't bother taking names

Retired Memetic Badass, at yer service.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.25 mm pilot pen

Today's jpost.com cartoon

Ehud Olmert spent his entire term in increasingly futile and desperate attempts to broker a peace deal with the Palestinians. All he got was frustration and, now, an indictment on three separate counts. Ha!
This is also, incidentally, my first time caricaturing Olmert since March (see below), as well as the first time such a caricature has appeared in print since last November, as well as the first time I've drawn him for the Post.

Olmert and his Supporting Cast grew perilously close to recrossing an ancient red line, debating whether or not to release terrorists "with blood on their hands" in return for the captured soldier Gilad Shalit.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch) (both)
Black ballpoint pen (b)
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen (a)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen (both)
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0 (a)