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Annnd we're right back where we left off, with today's entry seeing the light of day three weeks and one day after it was submitted.

Back when this was, y'know, fresh, this could have been easily connected to the then-current budget talks regarding cuts to our military spending. It's a point I've made before, but I just can't help despairing at how it costs so much to defend us from weapons which cost so little.

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Cera...

I regret nothing.

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How's this for mind-boggling: the Post ran this cartoon the day after I submitted it. I literally cannot remember the last time this has happened. It usually takes a few days to a week, or even more. But nope, this time it's as timely as you can get, reacting to the news of Israeli electric car innovator Better Place filing for bankruptcy while it's still quite fresh, even coinciding with an editorial on the subject. Oh happy day!

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Yep. Having eight different candidates for President is just fine and dandy--so long as they all march to your tune.

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When Russia announced it would be supplying the Syrian government with new anti-ship cruise missiles, I knew exactly what my next cartoon would be about. The very fact that they can claim it's necessary for Assad to have anti-ship missiles in order to fight the Syrian rebels--a fight taking place entirely on land--with a completely straight face, is testimony to... something bad. But it sure does testify.

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Caricature of Yair Lapid for The Jerusalem Post

Surprise, everybody! I was unexpectedly approached by the Post to draw them a caricature of Finance Minister Yair Lapid--for pay!!--to illustrate the article crowning him as the Most Influential Jew of the Year in today's Shavuot supplement. Have a gander!

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Happy Jerusalem Day, everybody! Just don't celebrate too loudly lest you incur someone's politically correct wrath.

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"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 1:9)

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The team appointed by the UN to investigate allegations of chemical weapons usage in Syria, led by led by Swedish arms expert Åke Sellström, has been--surprise, surprise--delayed by the Syrian government from entering the country and is currently cooling its heels in Turkey. Politeness, after all, can only get you so far.

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Amir Peretz is only the latest in a long line of Environmental Protection Ministers to issue an urgent call for the relocation of the enormous Haifa Chemicals ammonia plant from Haifa to some less densely populated area, a concern ever since Scuds rained down on us during the Gulf War way back in 1991.

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After the initial story broke... and after an editorial on the subject... and after letters to the editor on the subject... now they choose to run this. *sigh*

After the completely secular Meretz MKs Tamar Zandberg and Michal Rozin attended Rosh Chodesh prayers with the Women of the Wall as a New Age feminist show of solidarity, Rozin was intemperate enough to publicly denigrate a call by Likud MK Miri Regev to allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount. Double standard, lady: if you want total religious freedom at the Western Wall, it only follows that you should support full religious freedom behind the Wall as well.

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Galactic Kids Next Door: Numbuhs 9, 10, and 11 of Sector Gallifrey

Well, the mystery is now revealed! And that's not all--keep your eyes peeled for a Very Special Followup sometime in the future...

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Geddit? Hear no evil... see no evil... geddit?
[crickets]
Well I thought it was funny.
UPDATE: Boucle'ing right along.

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Danny Boyle's "Extraction"

Yeah, after seeing the trailer, I couldn't help but think of that other journey-into-the-mind-heist flick, and... yeah.
(Tangentially, the famous trailer is actually extremely inaccurate/misleading since it describes an extraction ("We create the world of the dream; you bring the subject into that dream, and they fill it with their secrets." "And then you break in and steal it?" "Well, it's not strictly speaking legal...") but then splices in a line from elsewhere to call it an inception. Trance, from first glance, appears to have an "extraction" plot, but who knows how misleading its trailer is?)

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Choccy

Drawing of a smiling dog's head I did for a logo bid on Freelancer.com; I was awarded the project, but when I asked for further details, no one ever answered. So I guess this can be up for grabs now!

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New polls are out indicating that the Palestinians would rather have a convicted terrorist (who is currently in jail) as their leader rather than Abbas or Haniyeh. Time to count down to when a prominent Israeli with more mouth than brains declares we should release Barghouti because he's "moderate" or as a "gesture" or some such rot.

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I know that this makes back-to-back cartoons starring Erdogan, but it really just couldn't be helped. For nearly three years, he's been demanding that Israel apologize for the Flotilla Incident--in which IDF soldiers were attacked while boarding a Turkish ship that was trying to breach the Gaza blockade, and had the gall to defend themselves--and two weeks ago (when this was drawn), Netanyahu capitulated, because of "strategic considerations". Okay, so it's not like I ever really believed he had a spine, but at least in this one specific area I was hoping he'd able to stand firm. Bleah.

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Sketches of some KND-style characters

See if you can guess who they are before I ink & color them!

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After "moderate and progressive" Turkish president Recep Erdogan lumped Zionism together with actual crimes against humanity in a speech last week, he scrambled to clarify himself... and by clarify, I mean "reiterate his opinion while trying to make it not sound as bad as it is".

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Puffed-up pufferfish

Drawn for bid, not chosen, you know the drill.

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Okay, so the crowds weren't quite as thin as depicted here--but I couldn't help making a joke about the terrible timing. (Seriously, dropping by for a state visit and snarling all the road traffic outside and within the capital at the height of holiday shopping time? Not cool.)

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From the Rough

Quick concept for golf-related company done for bid. Not chosen.

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I drew this on Sunday, so naturally the best time to run it is today, in the same issue that reports the virtual end of the coalition wheeling-and-dealing.

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Looks like li'l Jongy learned a thing or two from his father. Isn't he pwecious?

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Man holding hamburger

Rough sketch of icon mascot drawn for bid. Not chosen.

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Shaggy dog leaning holding beer

Icon mascot drawn for bid. Project cancelled.

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Save the date!

Apparently, sultana is Australian for raisin. Who knew, aimirite?

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Fun fact: originally the second guy's line was going to be about humble pie. I decided crow fit better.

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Horndog

A bulldog with horns for a bid, quick sketch + coloring. Not chosen.

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Ibex head logos

Some stylized ibex heads (no curves) done as sample work for a bid. Not chosen.

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Well whaddaya know, the Post actually printed one of my cartoons on the day I meant it to be printed on!

The fact that Abbas is asking for candy instead of exchanging it is a deliberate error and a commentary on the Way Things Are. Plus, of course, he's not even Jewish.

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Freddy Krueger, egg-style

So the way this works is, I was on Freelancer.com and saw somebody posted a job that caught my imagination: draw Freddy Krueger in the shape of an egg, Angry Birds-style. I quickly inked a sketch and sent it in; after a couple of revisions, I won the bid. Then, after I had sent in the pretty-much-finished image, the client informed me that he was having issues with the site's payment process--so he decided to go look for a different bidder on another website, promising that he would not use my version. Why he couldn't just decide to pay me directly without the middleman is beyond me, but it cost me positive ranking on the site as well as money for a job well done.
So here it is.

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While some of its individual countries classify Hizbullah as a terrorist organization, the EU as a whole (and most of its bigger members) are rather more hesitant about taking the plunge. Their ridiculous excuse for their continued waffling in the face of the official Bulgarian investigation, which concluded that Hizbullah was indeed directly behind the Burgas attack last July, would drive other men to drink and drove me to the drawing-board. I mean, come on, it's like saying the Nazis could not be held culpable for what the SS did, or not considering Fatah terrorists despite the actions of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade... oh wait.

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Today's J. Post cartoon, with predecessor

In the same vein as my winter weather cartoons, I recycled characters from a previous unpublished cartoon for a later one on the same basic subject--in this case, ridiculous military censorship.

The current brouhaha is about Ben Zygier, a.k.a. "Prisoner X", the details of whose case were for a while forbidden from publication in the domestic Israeli press by IDF censors while at the same time being widely available from every single other available news outlet. Honestly, I understand where they're coming from, but this tactic is absolutely and completely ineffectual in the ultra-connected 21st century...

...And three years back, much the same thing went down with the scandal involving stolen IDF files being given to a journalist.

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"Connections" Purim 5773 cartoon

The call went out from the local monthly mag for humorous contributions for the Adar issue, so my special brain came up with this. And yes, I'm deliberately homaging Calvin and Hobbes with the character designs.

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Coalition-building promises to be a bit more interesting this time around, with Netanyahu needing the support of the anti-chareidi Yesh Atid as the Knesset's second-biggest party while at the same time really wanting to include Shas and UTJ as well. Mix in the fact that he's trying to play HaBayit HaYehudi off everybody else and, well, you get this.

There were several variations on the basic concept that I was kicking around and I'm still not sure if I really picked the right one to draw in the end. Still, it got published, and I suppose that's what matters.

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What Iran's delaying tactics may (chas veshalom) eventually lead to.

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Detective Chameleon!

Ta-da! Turns out I was drawing a chameleon lizard dressed as a private eye investigator! Cuz I can!

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Religious tolerance shirt symbol

Did this awhile back for a side project, on the theme of chareidi/dati-leumi/chiloni tolerance and diversity in my city. This was part of a set of ideas for use on a shirt, and my personal favorite of the bunch. AFAIK none were eventually used.

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Another mystery preview

Who or what am I drawing here? Any guesses?

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Israel is refusing to attend the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review, where it is an open secret that we'll be widelu and unfairly lambasted. In retaliation, the UNHRC... has rescheduled the session for a later date, entirely missing the point of what's going on. (Fun fact: the US has asked Israel to attend even though they openly agree that we'll get hammered, in order to show goodwill or some such rot.)
UPDATE: Now my third reposting on Brave New World.

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Fat red oni

Proposed design for a computer game character. Bid not chosen.

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As head of the largest party in the Knesset, Binyamin Netanyahu has been tasked with building the next government coalition. HaBayit HaYehudi is, at 12 seats, the fourth-biggest party and the only other "true" right-wing party in the Knesset. However, staying true to form, Netanyahu has displayed a certain lack of enthusiasm in recruiting them, even though they probably have the fewest demands and conditions to join.

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Well, the results are in, and Yair Lapid's brand spanking new Yesh Atid party has clocked in at 19 mandates. History indicates that he should enjoy his popularity while it lasts: Israeli "fad" parties tend to have a brief shelf life. (Shinui went from 6 to 15 to 0; Gil, the Pensioners' Party, went from 0 to 7 and back to 0; the Democratic Movement for Change, or Dash, one-upped them by going from 0 to 15 and back to 0, lasting than three years; Tzomet went from 2 to 8 to 3 to 0; and Kadima was born in sin with 17, was officially elected to 29, then went from 28 to its current 2.) Coincidentally, Shinui was led by Yosef "Tommy" Lapid--Yair's father. Foreshadowing? Time will tell.
UPDATE: Ho hum, another LBd'O reposting. I'm blasé (French for "blazzy").

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A scientist character

Quick sketch done for a bid. Unused.

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Doodling with the Katz kids

So today the Kaztes came by. I told their youngest son to tell me to draw something. He told me to draw a man coming out of a tent.
So I drew this.

Then he drew this.

So then I put my own spin on it.

Soon afterwards the other Katz boy mentioned the Amish so I drew an Amish person.

Then he remarked how much he looked like Abraham Lincoln so I drew Lincoln from memory.

Today was a productive day.

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