Nerofe ISK, Ltd.

Logo for a pharmaceutical company (main variation; others are in different color schemes).

Drawn using:
Adobe Illustrator CS3

Today's jpost.com cartoon (also: 7,000TH VISTOR!)

In the latest bit of absurdity. the University of Johannesburg voted not renew their ties with Ben-Gurion University, then went on record saying they did not support boycotts against Israel.
And a big thank you to whoever-you-are from Fort Worth, Texas, for being The Eighth Day's seven thousandth visitor, clocking in today at 4:58:51 PM EST. (No, there is no special cartoon to mark the occasion--when you pass 2,000 hits in a single month, you tend to get blas'e about it.)

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

A cow in moon boots and a confused Buddha

No, the two are not necessarily connected, although there's no denying that a cow in moon boots would confuse anybody, let alone Buddha.

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

Battery mascot

Mascot proposal design for a power company. Project cancelled.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue 0.5 needle tip pen
Serif Photo Plus SE

No to a nuclear Iran

Made this cheerful little slideshow as per a customer's request.

Drawn using:
Photoshop CS3

6,000TH VISIT

The hits are now coming so fast that I can no longer keep accurate track of what brings my visitors here--today the hit total for the month passed that of the 28 days of February (1,242), itself over 400 more than in January (822), which had been double the highest of any month's total up to that point (395). The most I can tell you about my latest milestone visitor is that he/she clicked in late yesterday on Friday, March 18th, 2011 (inexactitude due to it being Shabbat), when the single-day record of 99 hits was broken--smashed, in fact, reaching an unprecedented 349. There's a good chance that he/she was referred here via e-mail, Twitter or Facebook, all of which have been aiding Monday's Jerusalem Post cartoon go semi-viral, apparently struck by the raw chord of emotion.
To those of you reading The Eighth Day for the first time: Welcome, and I hope I can keep you reasonably entertained. Please feel free to leave feedback in the comments.
To celebrate, here's two cartoons that were printed, also on Friday, in a local charity's Purim mock newsletter!

I was asked to include at least one cartoon about either my city (Beit Shemesh) or the charity (Lemaan Achai--donate now!). This is it. It refers to the craze our municipality has for building traffic circles, including in completely unnecessary places that hinder traffic instead of helping it.

After publication I discovered, to my surprise, that they are many English-speakers who do not in fact know what a "pink slip" is. (For the record, it refers to being fired.)
Chag Same'ach!

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

Mini political cartoon--blog-exclusive

Thank you, LA Times. So killing innocent Jews, including women and children, is a natural response to Israeli settlement building? Oh wait, that's right, they were "settlers", meaning they had no real worth as human beings. While you're at it, why not perpetuate the lie about the "cycle of violence"? G-d, you make me sick.

Drawn using:
Blue 0.5 mm needle tip pen

Today's J. Post cartoon

I have nothing to add to this.

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

UPDATE: Thanks to Miriam Schwab, Eli Cohen, G Baigel and Uri Man, for putting this out on Twitter; IowaCartoonists, for retweeting it on Friendfeed; the National Council of Young Israel, for having it lead off their weekly newsletter's list of links; Stan the Good Shabbos Man, for reposting it on his website; and the Lev LaLev Fund for including it in their monthly newsletter.

Online Marketing Israel

Another logo. I'm not sure what the thought bubble is supposed to signify, but it's a distinctive shape and the client liked it, so I suppose it's all good.

Drawn using:
Adobe Illustrator CS3

Cartoon wizards

You know, I do so love working without a net and having everything fall into place. I used to draw exclusively in pencil, then moved on to sketching by pencil before going over the lines more carefully in pen, but it's rare for me to do what I did here--draw straight-up with a pen, with every mistake there to stay--and even rarer to have so few mistakes in the end product. Makes me feel accomplished!
Anyway, these are two wizards displaying two Magic Tropes: A Wizard Did It and, rather more obviously, Magic A Is Magic A. (These can also be interpreted as opposing depictions of magical constraints in fiction: a) no rules or limitations except for what the writer decrees, and b) strictly plotted guidelines.)

Drawn using:
Blue 0.5 needle tip pen

Marketing Ninjas

Logo for an online marketing company. They wanted an "edgy" sort of brand.
There were also some ninja stick figures involved:

As well as a site mascot:

I think I'll call him Charlie.

Drawn using:
Adobe Illustrator CS3

Kangaroo flash card

Someone found the blog while searching for this; I've already done A through D but I'll skip straight ahead to K for you, pal!

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

An open message to my Egyptian reader(s)

Hi!
I know you're there. The Sitemeter--that little green-and-white button at the bottom of the page--tells me the points of origin of all the blog's visitors, and for a couple of weeks I've been getting at least one hit a day from Egypt, checking and checking out. That's you. (Or maybe more than one of you. That I can't tell.)
I'd just like to say hello and invite you to leave a comment telling me what you think. (I promise I won't bite.)In fact, I encourage ALL my blog's readers to leave comments, because even though I just celebrated my 5,000th visitor there have only been 28 comments made, which is just pathetic.
Just wanted to say that.

Cheers!

Drawn using:
Black ballpoint pen

5,000TH VISIT

The hit(s) parade just keeps going! A mere 22 days after the 4,000th visit, Mr. or Mrs. Anonymous from Jamestown, Louisiana, USA clicked the ticker up to five thousand today at 6:10:15 AM EST. The speed of this milestone's setting is largely due to the Tunisian Belly Flop cartoon, which garnered a mind-boggling 200 more hits than the runner-up pic (the 2010 Lebanese border incident, for the record).
Since once again there's not enough turnover in the topmost popular posts to justify a montage effort, here's a mashup of the three most popular cartoons of the interceding period that were never featured in one before.

It's the Welsh Dragon punching a referee who happens to be a parachuting Hosni Mubarak!

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