Today's J. Post cartoon

Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk's trial kicked off today in Germany. Maybe this time justice will be served.

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

Neogenix Team Epsilon

Flyboy (team leader) can fly and wields futuristic nunchuks; Twirly can create and control tornadoes; Shadow can manipulate an extradimensional substance called Black Ether; Yeti is superstrong with animal senses; Gamma Girl controls radiation and can fly; and Porcupine has quills which he can shoot or draw and use as weapons.
Team Alpha
Team Beta
Team Gamma
Team Delta

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil

Today's J. Post cartoon

Israel is willing to do just about anything to get back captive soldier Gilad Schalit... even releasing hundreds of murderers from prison.

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

Today's J. Post cartoon

In the latest iteration of Peace Process idiocy, the call has gone up for a building freeze on all settlements. Naturally, Netanyahu and the government caved like warm butter--and now Obama and Gordon Brown are tsk-tsking that we're continuing to construct houses in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo. ...Which is not a settlement. ...Or even in east Jerusalem.

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

Tipping the Scales

There was some excitement earlier this year: a family friend had reached a deal with a website to post her health blog on it, and proposed to them that the articles be accompanied by cartoons--with me as the artist. The above strips were drawn as samples... and unfortunately, the deal fell through. Easy come, easy go, I guess.

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

Neogenix Team Delta

X-Terminator (team leader) is superstrong and can fire concussive blasts via his gauntlets; Zip has superspeed; Red Menace flies and controls radiation; Specs has sensor eyewear that is laser-capable; Drill's hands are made of metal and can form any shape (but usually drills, his favorite weapon) via nanotechnology; and Random can randomly acquire the powers of any superhero within a ten-mile radius for 15 minutes.
Team Alpha
Team Beta
Team Gamma

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil

Today's J. Post cartoon

Oh how the mighty and moral have fallen.

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

New header & name

As anyone who actually reads this may have noticed, the blog got a bit of a face lift recently. The name got changed from Line_of_Fire to The Eighth Day, a reference to the Seven Days of Creation (it refers to how creative I am, geddit?); and an eye-pleasing graphic got installed in the old title's stead, featuring dozens of past creations, most of which have already appeared here, some of which will be published in the future.
Semper Phi!

Drawn using:
Adobe Photoshop CS3

Terry McGinnis and fans

Will Friedle, meet Will Friedle. Will Friedle, Will Friedle. Friedle, Friedle, Friedle. Friedle Friedle Friedle Friedle Friedle... Ahem. Got carried away there.
So: Will Friedle, meet Will Friedle and Will Friedle.

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

PA President Mahmoud Abbas says he's planning not to run for re-election in January, even as world leaders desperately try to prop him up. (And the fact that he's located on a pedestal is not coincidental.)

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

Neogenix Team Gamma

Bomb Boy (team leader) can make all or part of his body explode, then instantaneously regenerate; Rage gains superior physical abilities when angry (which is most of the time); Hyper has super-fast reflexes; Popsicle generates ice; Toolbox is a cyborg with a mental connection to his mechanized backpack; and Wired is covered with millions of metal strands which she can manipulate psychically, even when not in direct contact.
Team Alpha
Team Beta

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil

Well, that was unexpected

The Post re-used this cartoon as an illustration for an article in the Magazine section, captioned: "Why hide a pro-Israel position simply to attract more college students?". To say I was surprised would be an understatement. And for some reason I vaguely feel like complaining about this to someone.

Today's J. Post cartoon

After an exceptionally rainy day, the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), the national water supply, rose 2 cm. Statisticians noted that it would only take 140 more days of similar rainfall to bring it up to full capacity. ...Um.
(And yes, there really are two red lines.)

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

Rister & Rob: Contest Entry

• Runner-Up, Back2Basics New Cartoonist Contest, 9/28/06

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