Today's jpost.com cartoon

Had this idea a while back and finally got around to drawing it. Pretty pleased how it came out, all things considered, especially since it's hard to make a recognizable face on a circular surface.
Admittedly, Putin has only been elected to his second go-around as president of Russia after two turns as prime minister while Medvedev has only been president once before becoming prime minister for the first time now, but the sentiment of the now-protesting Russian voters is still the same.

In case you're confused, here's a timeline:

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Supplementary Rister & Rob cartoons

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Today's J. Post cartoon

With Israel closing (and, as of today, reopening) the Mughrabi Bridge for the umpteenth time, I figured the time was ripe for this reaction to the overreactions the Palestinians have eveny sitinkin' time we try to do anything near the Temple Mount, be it archeological digging or public infrastructure.

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Today's jpost.com cartoon

The Jeruslem Post's website's erratic uploading of my cartoons continues, with two put up together some time after their initial submission, for the second time in the past few weeks. One already saw print 12 days ago; the other is below:

With a new Israeli ad campaign aimed at bringing expats home getting plenty of flak overseas for its perceived insults to the American Jewish community, now's a good time to caicaturize one of our biggest failings: Hasbara, our word for public relations. Whether it's ad campaigns for yordim or explaining our side in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, we somehow always find a way to stuff our foot in our mouth and leave the message forgotten by the wayside.

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Today's J. Post cartoon

Just a general comment on the state of the euro these days. If it goes, so do the economies of those relatively least-unscathed by its wobbling (and that's without even mentioning what's going on with the PIIGS).

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Today's J. Post cartoon

After rioters attacked the British embassy in Teheran, causing the Brits and several other European countries to withdraw ambassadors and/or embassy personnel, Iran tried to woo them back with the promise that they would beef up their security. Seeing as how it's widely suspected that the rioters acted under direct sanction of the regime, this is not completely reassuring.
The fox, particularly its head, was heavily inspired by the look of Wile E. Coyote.
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Ripped From the Archives: January 2009

Full disclosure: I never received the January issue in the mail and can find no sign of its existence at Issuu.com, so I have no idea if any of the following made it in or not.


Ah, Moshe Feiglin... if Bibi Netanyahu is Superman, then Feiglin is Lex Luthor. Or possibly kryptonite. Except that Superman is an amoral, spineless SOB (and I think it speaks volumes about our local politicians that he's still the best man for the prime minister's job anyway). Escaping that mixed metaphor, Feiglin has been a political thorn in Netanyahu's side for many years. but each time he gets knocked down (i.e. maneuvered around) he just pops right back up. Must be frustrating.
This was the second time I'd ever drawn Bibi and the first time I began altering his look to how I draw him today--the more true-to-life pointy eyebrows and the checkered shirt, symbolizing his cheap hucksterism (which usually shows up nowadays as a checkered tie).

In 2006, the government squared off against demonstrators protesting the destruction of nine houses in the settlement of Amona, with violent results. When, at the time, some likened it to a pogrom, Olmert and his cohorts lashed out at them furiously, terming it incitement and provocation. Fast forward two years, and these same people were terming far lesser violence occurring between Jews and Palestinians in Hebron a pogrom...

Looking back at this one, it doesn't seem nearly as clever now... nor as funny.

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Today's J. Post cartoon

Always so quick to condemn Israel for use of excessive force whenever we accidentally kill Palestinian civilians whilst targeting terrorists, the UN has always remained conspicuously silent whenever American bombs miss their mark. The newspaper headline seen above is just the latest in a long, long string of such incidents perpetrated in the region by the US army.
UPDATE: 4 minutes after the first one, became second cartoon reblogged on no surrender-ne pasaran.
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