Today's jpost.com cartoon

When the Likud merged with Yisrael Beytenu, most people thought this would guarantee a strong showing in the polls. Instead, the numbers showed the new combined party getting less seats than they did separately, with a good chunk of those missing votes apparently going to Naftali Bennett's Habayit HaYehudi. Several negative ads aimed at him and his party were then aired. Turns out Israeli voters don't really appreciate such tactics, as the Likud has continued to drop as low as 35 seats in the polls (their current strenth is 42) while HHY has risen as high as 15 (up from 3(!)).

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No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm roller tip pen
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My Google cover photo

Hadn't viewed my Google profile for a while, but when I did I relaized that I could add this new content besides my profile photo, so I did. I originally wanted the pics within it to progress right-to-left in order of creation, but I changed that when I realized that a lot of the right side would be obscured by my incredibly handsome mug, so this is a bonus for you so you can see What Lies Beneath (answer: Tefillin Man, pre-DCNu characters playing darts in the afterlife, Ragman eating matzah, and the Drama Llama).

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Today's J. Post cartoon

What an absolute bag of crock. The SAO investigates Avigdor Liberman for a dozen years, finally gets around to announcing that it will indict him--and then says it's delaying the indictment to do a bit more investigatin'. Freaking abysmal.
I decided fairly quickly that I had to do a cartoon on this with a sloth, tortoise, snail and moss-covered rock; deciding how to structure and phrase it took a bit longer. I am extremely with the results however.

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Today's J. Post cartoon

I knew for a while that I wanted to do something pithy about the 21/12/2012 hysteria. My first instinct was something like me sitting at a drawing board in a field full of sunshine and flowers and whatnot with a caption saying something like "Yup, still here" and an annotation saying that it was drawn before said date. However, I don't use a drawing board and the weather here's pretty cloudy and windy and gloomy, so that was scrapped.

This final product was drawn on December 21st itself, and it pokes fun at the notion that just because the Mayan calendar cycle ended some nutters thought that this meant that everything else would end as well. Because the Mayans were clever enough to predict Armageddon right down to the exact day but couldn't foresee their own civilization's destruction. Yep, that makes sense.

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Today's J. Post cartoon

Hurrah for bipartisanship! It means I can mock both sides at once!

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Today's J. Post cartoon

I will not lie, this is a riff on the same general theme that I covered a while back for Pesach: no matter what our enemies throw at us, we're still here--maybe beaten, maybe bloodied, but not broken.
Chanukah same'ach.

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Today's J. Post cartoon

UPDATE: I'm not saying this cartoon has been reposted, like so many others, on La Boucle d'Occam... wait, that's exactly what I'm saying.

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Today's J. Post cartoon

United States, Canada, Israel, Panama
The Czech Republic, Nauru
Micronesia, the Marshall Islands
And also Palau
*needle scratch*

Nine countries. That's how many voted against this. Nine countries.
I'm going to look for an oven to stick my head into.

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No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm needle-tip pen
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