Cartoon in progress. Should have this completed sometime Tuesday.
St. Paul Saints Baseball Team
Our local minor league team, owned in part by actor Bill Murray
Cartoon in progress. Should have this completed sometime Tuesday.
St. Paul Saints Baseball Team
Our local minor league team, owned in part by actor Bill Murray
Melissa Treolo, A&E editor for the Washburn Review at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas is using the Vonnegut Memorial toon in next week's Lit issue.
David Criswell of The Evangelical Standard in Texas will be using a few cartoons in a future issue.
Thanks to West Rhino for nominating faithmouse at the Blogger's Choice Awards.
Al at Is Anybody There posts the Our Lady of Guadalupe cartoon.
Knitting Catholic Mama has added the regularly updating cartoon to her site.
Thanks to A Thorn In The Pew for adding faithmouse as a link.
Fellow conservative learned foot has fun with my City Pages win at his Kool Aid report.
Wizened cynic posts a few older Neverborn toons on her bastard-coated bastards with bastard-filling post at narcolepsy-slds LiveJournal.
Marianne posts the Britney Spears /Jack Chick Track parody cartoon on Victor1113's MySpace page.
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By request of Hipinion, for the cover of a user submitted music compilation called Two Minute Boners To Listen, two minutes referring to the length of each song. Disturbed asked me to design this cover a week ago as a surprise for the board, and will unveil it on Saturday. Featuring Taint, Fetus, and a yet unnamed character.
Update- Disturbed postponed the presentation until Sunday, which gave me a few additional hours to polish the cartoon. Revised image posted.
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That Steve Irwin cartoon I started last September but never got around to finishing. Still need to add Devilcat's pentagram festooned sombrero flying off his head in surprise.
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Chris Ward (my wife, harpist and vocalist, and the original Faithmouse) will be performing this weekend at the Night Lights Benefit Banquet for the Missing Grace Foundation at the Radisson Hotel and Conference Center in Plymouth, Minnesota.
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Drawing in progress for a new Familia Feliz cartoon, a charity in Brazil which contacted me a number of years ago and uses my work on T-Shirts, postcards, etc. Bethany College of Missions in Bloomington has connections to the charity, and I've met with a missionary from Bethany here at my home to discuss these cartoons in the past. The cartoons first started as promo pieces featuring different, real life children (Familia is run by a couple named Gledson and Célida who have adopted more than fifty children, some actually found abandoned on the street or in garbage dumps) but I've tried to expand this to a broader theme which addresses the plight of poor children in general. Still trying to get around to contacting O Estado de Sao Paulo (one of the larger papers in South America, based in Sao Paulo) to see if they'd like to run these cartoons as a continuing feature. These, and my other dialogueless Christian themed toons I think would make for a nice international cartoon.
For those who might assume this should be the territory of a 'liberal' cartoon; I disagree. Private giving has always formed the foundation of American charity, and far outweighs coerced publicly mandated 'donations' which are both wasteful and deplete the resources of those who give without political agenda. Conservative and Christians shouldn't allow detractors to co-opt these themes, any more than they should the territory of art, or opinion.
For those who are new to this blog, my modus operandi for developing cartoons is to fling them up on the web, then stand back and admire how my pretty my work looks backlit on a computer screen. It may take a week or longer to get around to finishing the above. Some I abandon entirely, but this one I won't.
From a post yesterday made on Something Awful, (Adult content) one of the sites mentioned on City Pages which decipher my cartoons. This is my response to questions about the Kurt Vonnegut memorial toon I posted here last week-
BunnySkull posted:
Actually, Kurt Vonnegut worked at GE before quiting to become a writer. I believe he was still working there and that was partly the inspiration for "Player Piano." Working at GE (or at corporations in general) in Vonnegut's opinion, was somewhere between purgatory and hell on earth. I think that's what he's referencing in the cartoon as well. (I think)
That's exactly what I was referencing. C.S. Lewis in his Screwtape Letters portrays Hell (and Heaven, by implication) as bureaucracy. Lewis was a strident atheist who converted to Christianity partially by influence of the very Catholic Tolkien. Hell is a brutal bureaucracy; and we can see shadows of that here in our earthly systems, which mirror but fail to achieve the perfect bureaucracy of Heaven.
BunnySkull posted:
I to am confused by his Vonnegut strip. Though I think his graphic portrait of Vonnegut is good and accurate (I like him smoking his Pall Mall too.) - I don't like the implication that due to the lack of "saving" Vonnegut is in purgatory. Vonnegut would agree that purgatory is as much of a fairytale as heaven and wouldn't like to be depicted in either fantasy land. So I'm going to take the strip as yet another flame of sorts. My interpretation: Dan thinks even though Vonnegut was a great guy and writer, due to his lack of saving he won't be in "fake-heaven", though he doesn't deserve be in "pretend-hell", so he's placed in "non-existent purgatory." Though, of course, I am assuming that Dan takes the above mentioned stations in God's human storage compartments (assigned by soothing his apparently huge ego) very seriously. Yet since he likes Vonnegut on some level couldn't bring himself to deposit him in hell although an unsaved atheists such as himself would normally be placed there.
That's as good a memorial cartoon as you can get from a Catholic conservative for a past President of the Humanist society. Once Vonnegut gets to Purgatory, he'll be asked 'who sent you?' and when he answers 'the cat from Hell' he'll be told the cat doesn't have any authority and he'll be promptly forwarded back to Heaven, and the cycle will continue into perpetuity. Vonnegut himself might be satisfied with that, because he didn't really want to go to any of these places, didn't believe in them, and besides, he'll be in a constant state of depression about his situation, which he lauded as being necessary for writing. So it's a good thing.
Bunnyskull posted:
Dan, did Vonnegut's beloved mother go straight to hell because she committed suicide, or is she hanging with him in "purgatory" ? (Also, is Dan a born-again Catholic? Because I thought Catholics were the only group agreed on the purgatory concept. I've also never know about a big "born again" Catholic sect.)
I couldn't tell you, not knowing his mother's state of mind at the moment of her death. Was it positive and indirect, negative and direct, or negative and indirect?
Look, people who purposefully die for others also willingly commit suicide, but the Church doesn't consider them guilty of unforgivable sin (there's only one), nor does it fault the insane. All suicide is done without consent of God, and is a definite spiritual fau pax, but it doesn't automatically condemn someone to Hell.
I'm not a 'born again Catholic' but I am a charismatic Catholic, which means I have nice hair and smile at people a lot. I've gone from Catholic to Atheist to Agnostic to born again Pentecostal, and back to Catholic. I was a big fan of Vonnegut (and Nietzsche) during my atheist days, but stopped reading him around Slapstick, when he sort of walked away from his characters.
Nice conversation started there, but then I was banned, I suspect because I was being the guy who draws faithmouse again (Christian=reach out). The NSFW in progress features my characters Taint and Fetus, and is by request of a music oriented board which I've contributed to over the past year or so. It's meant to serve as a cover for a CD compilation of original music by board posters. It's a surprise requested by the person organizing the project, so I can't reveal the name of the board until Saturday. Like the Familia Feliz cartoon above, it's not what you might expect. Art, I think.
Thanks to Shot In The Dark for the congrats and heads-up in their Clear Sympathies post.
Chad the Elder at Fraters Libertas has nice words for faithmouse in today's Common Grounds post. The last time I saw St. Paul (the blogger) was at the Hugh Hewitt / Peter Beinart debate two years ago (for which I drew a toon) and where I was able to present to Hugh a collection of Pookie18's Today's Toons at Free Republic. I remember introducing myself to Scott Johnson of Powerline, but I believe he thought I was trying to sell him a pair of shoes.
Thanks!
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The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated on December 12th. In 1999, Pope John Paul II, in his homily from the Solemn Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, during his third visit to the sanctuary, declared the date of December the 12th as a Liturgical Holy Day for the whole continent. During the same visit Pope John Paul II entrusted the cause of life to her loving protection, and placed under her motherly care the innocent lives of children, especially those who are in danger of not being born. - Sancta.org
Protectress of the Unborn
Our Lady of Guadalupe versus the Culture of Death -Sancta.org
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Thanks to Kyrie Eleison '"Lord have mercy" Reflections (and photos) of a Catholic Dad' for posting Sunday's Stop The ACLU Ferret 'Wall of Separation' cartoon.
Thomas Shawn at AD JESUm PER MARIAM 'Musings on politics and society from post 9-11, pre-Apocolyptic Massachusetts with a bit of futbol for good measure' gives faithmouse a link in his clever Operation Tunnel to the Vatican: Full Speed Ahead post.
Thanks to Karen at Karen's Korner for including Sunday's Stop The ACLU toon in her In Karens Spotlight 4-23-07 post.
Links to two Pro-Mike Whalen cartoons can be found on the Wikipedia / Iowa's 2007 1st Congressional district election page.
Thanks to Pookie18 for including the Professor Livie Lebrescu and Neverborn / Partial Birth Abortion Ban Upheld toons in Monday's Today's Toons thread on Free Republic.
ACLU Declares Churches Free Speech Zones (Restrictions Apply Elsewhere)
-American Civil Rights Union
Thanks to G.I. Sella for adding the Neverborn / Eviction Notice cartoon (which resigned John Edwards's staffer Amanda Marcotte blogged about at length here) to Nozar Nivek's MySpace page.
The Spanish Bauchavisuales has an article on What Would Jesus Download titled 'Páginas Cristianas que puedan ser de Interés...' and makes specific mention of the regularly updating faithmouse cartoon.
The California Bear Flag League Consortium page at the Truth Laid Bear lists the Neverborn/ Partial Birth Abortion Ban Upheld cartoon as a most popular post.
Right On The Right gives faithmouse a nice plug.
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By request of Poesters.
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Liviu Librescu -One victim of the Virginia massacre left an incomparable legacy -Times Online
Thanks to Helga Bianca from the Phillipines for using the Neverborn / Delivery Refused, Return To Sender cartoon as the background image for her Friendster page.
Thanks to Gribbit at Gribbit's World for displaying yesterday's Neverborn / Partial Birth Abortion Ban Upheld cartoon in his Remember their reactions come 2008 post. So true.
Mike Sr. at Papa Mikes' Blog posts yesterday's Neverborn toon as well. Grazie.
Karen at Karen's Korner adds an 'antique' (pre-nose) Neverborn / Abortion Mill cartoon from 2004 to her Updated in Karen's Spotlight post.
Thanks to Al at Is Anybody There for his The Supreme Court Finally Gets It Right post of the recent Neverborn toon.
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Bench Memos - National Review Online
Justice Ginsberg Abandons Stare Decisis? - Pro Life Blogs
Thanks to Karen at Karen's Korner for making today's Neverborn toon the cartoon of the day.
Today's cartoon shows up on Steven Decatur's Anti-Jihad Pageflakes via the Stop The ACLU feed.
Thanks kindly to FoxNews guest and longtime faithmouse supporter Stacy Harp at Active Christian Media for posting the Neverborn cartoon.
Faithmouse fan Jean at Catholic Fire displays today's cartoon in her Reactions to the Supremes Upholding the Partial Birth Abortion Ban post.
SW regional, conservative, pro-life blogs aggregator Cactus Alliance links to the post of today's cartoon at Pro-Life Blogs.
Damon on his ibeef LiveJournal has today's cartoon via the Stop The ACLU feed.
Christine at Domestic Vocation displays the cartoon on her VICTORY (updated with celebration cartoon) post.
Pookie18 has the most recent Stop The ACLU Ferret toon on today's (Wednesdays) Today's Toons thread at Free Republic.
Thanks to GOP strategist and Giuliani campaign advisor Patrick Ruffini for linking a few weeks ago to one of the recent Rudy Jewels toon on his Giuliani page. I wonder if Rudy saw it..?
Sara at The Estrogen Files posts our still in-progress Hensel Twins illustration in her Myriad Jumble Pile Scattered = My Mind ~ mental spew post.
Nicolas Steven Peterson posts the 2004 George Washington/Faithmouse-All About The Benjamin toon on Shane's MySpace page.
Thanks to Horse at Bay Ridge Talk for posting a recent Stop The ACLU Ferret toon.
Earlier last month the Snake Busters! toon was posted on BrideBrook's Live Journal.
MaddMedic posted a few faithmouse toons last month on his MaddMedic blogspot site. Wonder what they were...
Slim28 has the Neverborn / Bad Ass For Life toon on his WAY too-adult-to-link-here b45eckos / die or live freewebs page.
Thanks to Barb at SFO Mom for posting the St. Patrick's Day / Neverborn toon.
Mrs. ~Norsk-Skovkatt on DeviantArt makes the comment that her Ms. Stoat drawing looks a bit like one of those faithmouse ACLU weasels.
Thanks to ChristianWAHM.com (Dedicated to helping Christian women and work-at-home moms succeed in business) for adding the faithmouse cartoon feed to their humor page.
For the Sunday Funnies at Stop The ACLU.
A Constitutionally Protected Right to Market Pornography to Children? - Stop The ACLU
Completed this early Monday morning at about 3 AM or so. I'm backtracking now to complete both the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Cartoon and Coke Goes Better With Christ toon.
Thank goodness tax day falls on Tuesday.
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A new Faithmouse/Devilcat/Ms. StarMole cartoon, in progress.
RAND Study Finds Religiosity Can Be An Important Tool In Preventing The Spread Of HIV-AIDS -Medical News Today
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Revised.
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Catholic League outraged over six-foot chocolate Jesus - Indian Catholic