Cannibalistic corn

I don't draw a lot of anthropomorphized plants and/or foods, do I? Ah well, this'll fix that.
Done for freelance bid asking for a funny drawing of corn or popcorn, so naturally I went with both. Rejected.

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

Today's J. Post cartoon

The latest round of high-profile protests in this country now goes to the Ethiopian community, complaing about the usual things like racism and whatnot. As opposed to other protests in the past, however, media coverage has been rather muted, leading to this idea.

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

A porcupine and some friends

Some random hapless animals done for a bid. Politely rejected, but at least I can add some new entries to the Eighth Day Zoo.

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

Flash character concepts

Random characters created for a Flash game-related bidding contest. None chosen.

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

Today's J. Post cartoon

When British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg termed Israeli settlements "deliberate vandalism" of the peace process, I knew I had to make a joke about the double standard inherent in this view.

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

Today's J. Post cartoon

When journalist Yair Lapid announced that he would run at the head of a new political party in the next elections, national media went crazy, devoting massive coverage including polls showing he could win up to 15 seats. The problem? Elections are only scheduled for October 2013, making all this excitement just a wee bit premature.

I originally intended to have the cartoon depict Bibi Netanyahu and Tzipi Livni as owners of horses representing their parties (the Knesset's two current biggest), standing by their horses in a stable or racing stalls and looking miffed while the all the media fawn over the dark horse owned by Lapid, but decided to do this simpler version instead.
Two things I now regret about this drawing: the horse's legs are going too far forward, making it look like he's about to fall over backward, and the bookie's answer sounds more passive than confused--it should have been either "is only in another" or "isn't for another." Oh well.

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

Today's jpost.com cartoons - with a twist

Okay, so technically neither of these are "today's" cartoons, since I only found out that they had been uploaded today and it had probably happened earlier, but that isn't the twist. No, the twist is which jpost.com they appeared on--namely, the main site's Christian affiliate. That's right--for whatever reason, my cartoons have started being placed there instead of the main site's op-eds page. Why? Goodness knows, but let's get right down to it.

This was just a little bit of humor gleaned from a news article on the subject. It's an old joke, but a good one. (Yes, that is the actual Tel Aviv University logo, as well as some pro bono product placement for Apple.)

This was originally drawn in preparation for January 1st, featuring notable terrorists and/or dictators who kicked the bucket in 2011.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch) (both)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen (both)
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen (both)
Blue 0.7 mm pilot pen (second)
Black marker (first)
Serif PhotoPlus SE (second)
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition (first)

Today's J. Post cartoon

No, America is not the only country with an illegal immigration problem and a porous southern border. In our case, it's not Mexicans, but people from Sudan, Ethiopia, and other Africa countries, looking for refuge or (more often) better economic opportunities, infiltrating Israel via the Sinai.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Blue 0.7 mm pilot pen
SerifPhotoPlus Starter Edition

Today's J. Post cartoon

In another development of the ongoing State of of Israel vs. The Chareidim drama, Rabbi Yosef Elyashiv, one of the top rabbis of the chareidi community, went on record saying that it's impossible to lead a life of Torah observance if one integrates into the secular world (i.e., serves in the army, gets a job, etc.). This spectacular display of shortsightedness inspired me to contrast it with just a small sampling of some famous rabbis from over the generations who did, in fact, have real "secular" jobs.
Rabbi Yochanan HaSandlar (3rd century CE) was more precisely a sandalmaker (or possibly an Alexandrian--there's some debate as to his surname's meaning, but he was a contemporary of rabbis who were launderers (Rabbi Hoshayah), tailors (Rabbi Abba Bar Zamina), cotton merchants (Shimon HaPakuli), and so on). Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (1040-1105) is the most famous of all the Torah commentators. Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon (1135-1204) is better known as Maimonides and was not just a physician but the Sultan of Egypt's personal doctor and a scientist to boot.
UPDATE: Reblogged by Tom Carew of no surrender-ne pasaran.
Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0