Neogenix Team Beta

Mend (team leader) can heal wounds--and has the untapped ability to drain life force; Kid Cop is like a mini Captain America; Vector controls gravity; Quantum teleports (and I swear I came up with her costume design before watching Teen Titans); Ogre is big and strong; and Cosmic Ray absorbs energy and releases it in the form of power beams.
Team Alpha

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil

Today's J. Post cartoon

Reality is stranger than fiction. What can I say? (The leftist J Street lobbying group decided to stop advertising themselves as "Pro-Israel" when recruiting supporters on college campuses.)

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 jpost.com cartoon

In the latest stage of Swine Flu Hysteria, Obama has declared the H1N1 pandemic a national emergency. This, despite the fact that "normal" flu kills far more people...

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

Apparently, the Jordanian monarch thinks that a nuclear Iran would be a piece of cake.

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

Bumper sticker contest winner

Today I was informed that the above design had won a bumper sticker contest organized by the right wing grassroots political organization Mattot Arim. It is based off a quote by Vice-PM Moshe Ya'alon, and says "When the dove of peace comes--guess who has to clean up after it?"
This was my first ever practical application of Adobe Illustrator and as such the first time my just-completed Computer Graphics course paid off--may it continue to do so for ever more :-)
My favorite thing about this is that since the version I was using wasn't Mideast-compatible, it was lettered by hand, which I felt--wrongly, as it turns out--had put me at a handicap. Thus, the sticker goes into print nationwide, and I get 1,800 NIS (about $500)--nothing be sneezed at, certainly.

Drawn using:
Adobe Illustrator CS4

Today's jpost.com cartoon

Turkey, a former ally of Israel, has recently displayed increasing signs of moving away from the West towards radical Islam.

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

Neogenix Team Alpha

The Neogenix sprouted from an idea I had that started out as a creative exercise and not, as so many other drawing subjects did, as a full-blown scheme. Naturally, they've become one of my most enduring and developing.
It is the far future; attacks on Earth by a bloodthirsty extraterrestrial species have united the world's countries and set them to creating 36 superpowered humans, in 6 teams of 6, to combat the alien menace. Unfortunately, a major attack launched earlier than expected has forced the humans to launch the Neogenix into space with their bodies matured only to the equivalent of nine years old--thereby giving some of them power glitches. Now 36 children are all that stands between humanity and oblivion...
This is Team Alpha. Burn (team leader) controls fire; Stretch stretches; Ultra's suit packs a punch; Ghost can float and become intangible but is stuck in permanent invisibility mode; Nano can shrink; and Slash can control metal molecules within five feet of his hands--his favored method of battle is manipulating said molecules into the forms of knives.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil

Today's jpost.com cartoon

Sometimes the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. For bigger confusion, we have none of the fingers on either hand knowing what anyone else is doing. Context: after the PA surpringly passed on submitting a resolution to the UNHRC to debate the Goldstone Report, Palestinian backlash has been severe; since then there have been multiple incriminations and counter-incriminations concerning just who was responsible for the deferment, an answer that ought to be easily answerable.

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

This actually happened to me.

My reaction to a poster espied in Bnei Brak whilst on my way to the Computer Graphics course. (A different sign calculated that "cancer" and "Internet" had the same numerological value [in Hebrew], noting that this was "no coincidence". Of course. And the fact that "cancer" and "cigarette" have different numerologies is no coincidence either. *sigh*)

Drawn using:
Blue 0.7 mm pilot pen

Particle Man, and friends

Particle Man, Particle Man, doing the things a particle can.
Triangle Man hates Particle Man.
Universe Man. He's got a watch with a minute hand, millennium hand and an eon hand.
Who came up with Person Man? Degraded man, Person Man.
Triangle Man hates Person Man. They have a fight, Triangle wins.
Or perhaps you prefer the Tiny Toons interpretation of the They Might Be Giants song?

Drawn using:
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen

They've come to kick butt and chew gum. They've got gum, but they'll kick your butt anyways.

Or, "When the going gets tough, the cute get going".
So one day I thinks to myself I thinks, "What would Jaime Reyes's little sister Milagro look like all grown up?" After all, it's widely accepted that with such genetic awesomeness behind her, some would be bound to trickle down.
So I drew it.
Then for good measure I added Lian Harper, who has already exhibited many signs of Awesome+Cute at a ridiculously precocious age. Then I threw in li'l Alina (last name unknown), who has been stated to have vast magic potential.
Milagro I envisioned not as an actual Green Lantern (as some Internet folks are clamoring for her to become), but somewhat obsessed with the Corps and having a mentor-student thing going on with Guy Gardner; hence the shirt--not to mention the vest. No, Milagro to me is a Badass Normal. And she protects El Paso while big brother Jaime's away. (The EPPD on her cap, FYI, stands for "El Paso Police Department".)
She, in turn, mentors Alina.
Lian's costume is a combination of her father's and Green Arrow's. And like Black Canary, that's not her natural hair color, but a disguise (and doubles neatly as a reference to her initial DCU appearance, since retconned).

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.25 mm pilot pen
Adobe Illustrator CS4

Angua and Sarah

In Hogfather, a little match girl named Sarah is taken in by some watchmen at Death's behest (long story). So I figures, even though she's never mentioned again, what if she stayed in the Watch house and got raised by the coppers? Sergeant Angua would be a terrific role model for her! (She'd also eventually become Memetically Awesome, but that's beside the point.) Thus this cute little vignette.

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

My favorite unpublished political cartoon

One of my very last cartoons submitted to the ShiurTimes before I pulled the plug on that (professional) relationship. Horrified reactions to the appointment of nationalistic Avigdor Lieberman as Israel's foreign minister led to this tongue-in-cheek pastiche.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil
Black ballpoint pen

Po, Shifu and Tai Lung humanized

A follow-up to my earlier interpretation of the Furious Five. Uncolored because I'm lazy.
EDIT: Not anymore!

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