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This one sounded a lot clearer in my head...

The point is that all these exciting revolutions come and go; the pyramids and the Sphinx have been there for thousands of years, and they've seen it all before.

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

Four business card designs

Exactly what it says on the tin post title.

This one shows both a front and back (the others are just translated):

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Adobe Illustrator CS3

Today's jpost.com cartoon

Last year, right before Yoav Galant was named as the choice for Israel's next Chief of Staff, there was a whole big affair with a forged document that tried to upset his nomination. He was eventually cleared and chosen, but now something else has come up: allegations that he illegally seized public land near his home. Now everything's in doubt all over again.
UPDATE: In a stunning turn of events, Galant has indeed had his appointment cancelled!

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Graphic Design Israel

This is another logo I made for my employers, for a different offshoot of their parent company. It's a lightning bolt/speech bubble shape. Because.

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Adobe Illustrator CS3

Linkara and Iron Liz vs. Mechakara and Judas Liz

While not as well-made as his last epic battle (artist's representation here), the latest punch-up at Atop the Fourth Wall is still a doozy. Hence, more fanart!
Evil sort-of-clone Mechakara is back, there's a dark version of Linkara's girlfriend... good stuff, people.
Also: I suck at high heels. And why Judas Liz would be holding her sword sideways is anybody's guess.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil
Colored pencils
Brown marker
Black marker
Black 0.25 mm pilot pen
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen

Today's J. Post cartoon

The unexpected ouster of Tunisia's longtime dictator, Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali, is having repercussions (represented literally here) throughout the rest of the Arab world. As the world holds its breath, one can only wonder: who will be the next ruler to fall?
Could it be Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt since 1981?
Might it be Jordan King Abdullah II?
Or will it be Abdelaziz Bouteflika, from neighboring Algeria?
Or maybe a dark horse--say, a Saudi?
Place your bets, folks!

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Ripped From the Archives: December 2008

All of these are being published for the very first time. (Note: these were all connected to the then-upcoming Knesset elections.)

Drawn to mark the return of Bennie Begin to politics. He is that rarest of things, an honest politician--an overall good guy, in fact--and definitely earned his "Mr. Clean" moniker. Livni, in contrast, stood at the head of Kadima, a party fraught with scandals at dizzying speed right from the start.

Just some humor gleaned from the previous month's elections in the US.

Would you believe it's been over 5 years since the Gush Katif expulsion and the refugees still haven't received proper compensation?

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

Unnamed comic strip artwork

These were done for a yet-to-be-pitched comic strip whose author was looking for an illustrator, came across me on a freelance site and asked me to do interpretations of some scripts. It was a one-panel, very Larsonesque type of gig, and it is indeed Gary Larson's style that influenced me the most here (not that he hasn't before). These were my top five favorites, both in terms of finished artwork and jokes.
Unfortunately, I was eventually culled from the list of candidates due to religious restrictions on what I can draw (no crosses, for instance). Such is life.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Adobe Illustrator CS3
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0
Serif PhotoPlus SE

Today's J. Post cartoon

Saad Harari, the just-recently toppled Prime Minister of Lebanon, has repeatedly gone on record preemptively and categorically rejecting all of the conclusions reached by the UNSC's probe into the assassination of his father, Rafik Hariri. This is hardly surprsing, since the results are widely anticipated to be incriminating Hizbullah and Syria, the real "power behind the throne" in the country--and that just might put him next on their lists.
(The original song, in case anybody's wondering.)

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Not Just Bagels

When a local bagel shop lunched a website, they asked me to create a banner announcing it for their store window, along with a little mascot-type drawing at the end. To my knowledge this is the only time the character was ever used. (And if he happens to bear a more than passing resemblance to the Bonkers Bagels bagel, well, there's only just so many ways you can anthropomorphize a bagel. Besides, mine has a cap!)

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

3,000TH VISIT

Just under three months after The Eighth Day's two thousandth visitor--boy, these milestones just keep coming faster and faster, don't they?--I now have a person or persons unknown from Wassau, Wisconsin, USA to thank for pushing us over the three thousand hits mark today with a four-second visit at 5:17:32 AM EST!
This time you'll be seeing something different celebrating this occasion, as the most popular posts on TED have remained basically unchanged, so no montage. (Sorry!)
Instead, as a follow-up to my previous post, here is my other entry for the just-concluded Topless Robot art contest!

I started out from the premise, What would Calvin's "Spaceman Spiff" daydreams look like when he got older? The "logical" conclusion: instead of a Buck Rogers-type character, Spiff would now be a Halo space marine. Then, just for good measure, I threw in a more realistic-looking Hobbes as a Jedi knight. Why? Absolutely no bloody reason. It just came to me!
The ironic thing is that I literally spent hours on painstakingly inking this and then coloring it in Photoshop, while the Calvin-and-Hobbes-as-Fantastic-Four picture (yes, for some reason I seem to have Calvin and Hobbes on the brain lately) was basically just an afterthought scribble, and yet it was the latter that garnered an Honorable Mention while this one got bupkes. It just goes to show.
Some small details: the Spiff lightning bolt is emblazoned on Calvin's chestplate (and that is a generically Spiff-y ray gun he's holding), and his helmet's visor is tinted to resemble Spiff's goggles.
In conclusion: Calvin may have grown older, but he still hasn't quite grown up yet...

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Adobe Photoshop CS3

(Just for completion's sake: an inexplicable huge November surge made the Demjanjuk cartoon the most-viewed post of the past thousand hits with 114; the debut of the Young Justice cartoon fueled searches and garnered my AU lineup second place with a total of 90 hits (black-and-white and colored versions combined); right behind were the two posts on the Tortoise and the Hare, combining for 89; the Linkara Corps held strong at #4 with 71; and the Obamacare cartoon rounded out the top five with 65.)

"Calvin and Hobbes" characters as the Fantastic Four

• Honorable Mention, ToplessRobot.com Art Contest, 1/4/11

This one just came to me in a flash of inspiration. Calvin already visually resembles the Human Torch, Hobbes is long and lanky and is also smitten with Susie, who represents the team's female member, and tough guy Moe gets to look like the monster he is on the inside.

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

Today's jpost.com cartoon

Former Israeli President Moshe Katzav was just convicted by the court of rape (months after being convicted by the press, natch). But to judge by Bill Clinton, for Katzav the best is yet to come...

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen

Serif PhotoPlus SE

Today's jpost.com cartoon

Avigdor Lieberman, our Foreign Minister, is a highly independent and plain-spoken individual, constantly at odds with PM Binyamin Netanyahu, the guy in charge. I decided to illustrate this oft-acrimonious relationship by way of metaphor.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black felt-tip pen
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus SE