Cheetah Kangaroo Boy

Now, here was an interesting keyword referral for TED. Not only is it a singularly random set of searchwords, but it could be easily interpreted in two different ways.
For instance, did the searcher want a picture of a cheetah, a kangaroo, and a boy?

Or did they mean a combination of the three--a cheetah-kangaroo boy if you will?

What would that look like?
Probably something like this.

Now that's just plain dang weird.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black ballpoint pen
Adobe Illustrator CS3

Today's J. Post cartoon

The Israeli Medical Association (pictured, right: IMA chairman Dr. Leonid Eidelman) are having a bit of a snit at the moment about how much Israeli doctors are currently being paid (hint: not much) as well as other issues in a full-blown labor dispute, while the Finance Minstry, led by Yuval Steinitz (right), is being all complainy right back. I thought this cartoon fit the level of discourse perfectly--and by happy coincidence, on the very day I drew it, Eidelman declared a hunger strike.

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

Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Business Toon Parade: PromotionalVideos.us

I had a number of ideas for the rep's last line; the one that almost made it in instead was about being on Oprah.
Note the Oscar on the top shelf there.

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

Business Toon Parade: Two more marketing companies

Online Marketing Israel

Marketing Ninjas

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

Another Hesder shirt design (unorganized)

These are the drawn elements for another shirt for the same Hesder class as last time. Please note the Ma'alim Chiyuch shirt cameo (top right).

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

Today's J. Post cartoon

Yet another cartoon appearing out of sync, eight days after submitting it and four full days after it first appearing on the Post's website.

Mazal Tov to the brand-new nation of South Dudan--and good luck... because they're going to need it.

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

Business Toon Parade: Just Email Marketing

Looks like I'm going to be kept busy in the immediate future doing more humorous promotional comic strips for different companies, thanks to the popularity of my previous two efforts. Feels nice to have my actual talents being utilized for once instead of my acquired garphic design talents.
This one's for an e-mail marketing service.

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

Window tinting logo

Did this logo for a local window-tinting company (the text is a placeholder and is not the same font as in the final thing). Had to go through several different graphic representations of their product's effect before I hit on one they liked. Notable in that now it's displayed prominently on an enormous sign hanging off the owners' building.

Drawn using:
Adobe Illustrator CS3

Republished illustrative cartoon in the J. Post - again

Well, this is disconcerting.

The above political cartoon, which got made it onto the Post's website on Sunday, was unexpectedly used today to illustrate an op-ed article about Labor's woes. Longtime readers of my blog (zero) will remember that a similar situation occurred two years ago; at the time, I was promised compensation for my work's unintended use. (Oh, didn't you know? The Post has no budget for paying its political cartoonists, so everthing I do for them is strictly voluntary. Just FYI.) Despite signing and sending in the requested paperwork, said money never materialized. I guess it's time to try again... and hope the outcome is better.

Get on the map!

Portion of a proposed poster design promoting an online marketing company.

Drawn using:
Adobe Photoshop CS3

Today's jpost.com cartoon

It's a five-man (or four-man-and-one-woman) race for the chairmanship of the Labor Party, the once-proud bastion of Israel's political left currently making its way down the toilet.

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