Tefillin Man & GOLEMM

As Jewish Superhero Week draws to a close, I present to you the final entries!

Tefillin Man - Can shoot prehensile tefillin straps from his wrists, this is unclear if it's an actual superpower or some form of gadgetry. Identity unknown even to his fellow heroes; is secretly a Noahide.
GOLEMM (Gyro-Operated Laser-Enhanced Mitzvah Machine) - The latest in a line of robotic Golems designed by Doc Holiday.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen

Godspeed & Valor

Jewish Superhero Week continues!

Godspeed - Blessed with the power of superhuman speed--so long as he thinks good thoughts. Is engaged to
Valor - A religious feminist who patterns her costume and weapons after those of the ancient Israelites.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen

Doc Holiday & the Rabbi

It's Sukkot now, so I guess it's as good a time as any to declare it to be Jewish Superhero Week and unveil some OCs I've been working on!

Doc Holiday - So called because his theme is the Jewish Holidays. Matzah throwing disks, etrog gas canisters, hamentashen grenades, a lulav sword--and the Luchot HaBrit as his emblem. His alter ego is a mild-mannered (but still oversized) rabbinical student, under the tutelage of
The Rabbi - A elderly kabbalistic warrior who eschews hand-to-hand combat in favor of mystical incantations and astral projections.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen

Bat logo/mascot

Project cancelled.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue 0.5 needle tip pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Ripped From the Archives: April 2008

Condoleezza Rice and the US administration still treated Abbas as all the Palestinians' leader even though he and his party had been driven out the Gaza Strip by Hamas--the ones actually shooting off the rockets.
Unpublished ones from the month:

The more things change...

The metaphorical interpretation of what Olmert was doing to keep his coalition intact was just too good to pass up. Particularly apt since he was going about it so very blatantly that it was no secret to anybody except, of course, to Shas.

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

Today's jpost.com cartoon

In honor of both the upcoming Sukkot holiday and the end of the 10 month settlement freeze, I merged the two together. Chag Same'ach!
UPDATE: Lightly modified and reposted by turning-into-big-fan Daniel Dagan.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue 0.5 mm pilot pen
Blue 0.7 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Stuff inside your body (but not really)

The above are a bunch of dudes I doodled in my biology notebook several years back. They're supposed to represent several body functions.
Today, I refurbished them all nice and neat!

Internal security?... Ears... Brain... Nose... Digestion... Allergies?... Security... Eyes... Nerves

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (both)
Colored pencils (2)
0.5 mm pilot pen (2)

Today's jpost.com cartoons

Thanks to the online editor returning from vacation, three more of my cartoons have been added to the site at once:

Several Israeli actors signed an agreement to boycott the new cultural center built in the Ariel settlement, despite the fact that a) most if not all of them would likely never perform there anyway, and b) there is an extremely wide (rare) consensus among the Israeli public that Ariel will remain a part of Israel after any future peace agreement. A number of prominent Israeli leftist intellectuals promptly signed a petition supporting the boycott, and now Hollywood, including Patinkin (Inigo Montoya) and Shawn (Vizzini), have joined in on the action. Fezzik, of course, was played by the late Andre Roussimoff, a.k.a. Andre the Giant.

Naturally, when the latest peace negotiations fail, Israeli intransigence will be blamed. Again.

The much-ballyhooed Florida Koran Burning was called off, but you'd never tell from either Islamic outrage abroad or most of the American news media.
UPDATE: The middle cartoon has been featured on the Swedish-language Ur Exilen blog.
UPDATE 2: Last cartoon is latest to be featured on the Daniel Dagan blog, along with one from August, oddly enough.
UPDATE 3: Middle cartoon is now re-reposted on the Anne's Opinions blog as well.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil
Blue 0.4 mm pilot pen
Blue 0.7 mm pilot pen (1, 3)
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen (2)
Black marker (3)
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0 (1, 3)
Serif PhotoPlus SE (2)

Today's J. Post cartoon

Could not resist...
The best part of it is, every person who looks at it is free to draw his/her conclusions about what the meaning behind it is. I have my own ideas, but I'm not telling!
Also, full disclosure, this was largely inspired by a similar cartoon I saw ten years ago during the (failed, naturally) Camp David Accords, starring Ehud Barak, Bill Clinton, and Yasser Arafat. The players may change, but the game stays the same...

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

An explorer and a talent scout

Proposed mascot ideas. Project cancelled.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue 0.5 needle tip pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Excell Dental Care

Design for logo of a dental clinic. Unused.

Drawn using:
Adobe Illustrator CS3

Baseball-related product packaging illustrations

The actual product being sold is that foam thingamabob on the barrel of the bat.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Adobe Illustrator CS3

Cow mascot redesign

Based off original pic. Rejected.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black fiber tip pen
Serif PhotoPlus SE

Today's jpost.com cartoon

With the economy still highly unbalanced, the US managed to find an extra $2 billion under the couch cushions to build an antimatter-locating machine and lauch it into space, for the purpose of... finding antimatter particles. Just finding them. If antimatter exists.
*Facepalm*

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