The Eighth Day: 04.2013

4/30/13

Today's J. Post cartoon

amir peretz pushing against haifa chemicals ammonia plant straining sweating gilad erdan walking away yeah good luck with that past ministers of environmental protection gideon ezra shalom simhon yehudit naot tzachi hanegbi

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.

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

4/23/13

Today's J. Post cartoon

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*

women of the wall wearing tallit meretz tamar zandberg we need to show religious tolerance and allow them to pray however they want miri regev jews should be allowed to pray on the temple mount michal rozin whoa now thats crazy talk

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.

DRAWN USING:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm needle-tip pen
Serif PhotoPlus Starter Edition

4/13/13

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...

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

4/11/13

Today's J. Post cartoon

john kerry finger in ears first id like to thank turkey for their sensitive non triumphalist response to the mavi marmara apology recep tayyip erdogan ha in your face zionist swine turks rule hands over eyes and may i just point out that the iranian nuclear negotations are not an interminable process sitting at table cobwebs so bibi how about restarting those peace talks binyamin netanyahu you just speak no evil instead

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

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

4/9/13

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?)

Drawn using:
Adobe Photoshop CS3

4/6/13

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!

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

4/4/13

Today's J. Post cartoon

pmo prime ministers office secretary sitting at behind desk holding phone sir youve got another call asking you not to release marwan barghouti binyamin bibi netanyahu who is it another right wing group worried it would negatively impact our national security actually its mahmoud abbas worrying it would negatively impact his job security

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.

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

4/2/13

Today's J. Post cartoon

circus ring netanyahu amazing spineless politician trained seal swallowing large object mavi marmara apology tousle haired boy say mister how dyou get it to swallow its pride like that recep tayyip erdogan dressed as ringmaster top hat tuxedo holding hoop its actually quite simple kid it has no backbone to get in the way two men male spectators talking yknow most animals would want some kind of treat for doing a trick like this treats nah not this one most it expects is for someone to throw a bone

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.

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

4/1/13

Sketches of some KND-style characters

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

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)