No Place To Hide / Terri Schindler Schiavo Memorial Illustration

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The Official Anne Frank Website

The Murder of the Handicapped - The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Obviously this isn't the Communion of Saints toon (or is it?) that I promised earlier yesterday. That toon is in progress and will follow immediately after Sunday's regular Stop The ACLU toon. No head fake intended, I just felt suddenly compelled (see comments) to complete this one first. Answering my strongest motivations usually results in better work.

Navigating on the Anne Frank link as follows; Museum/History of the House/The Hiding Place (page 6) will lead you to the interactive Quicktime movie which I used as reference for the above illustration.

Thanks to Thomas at American Papist for posting this toon, as well as Stacy Harp at Writing Right. Tim has posted the illustration at Pro-Life Blogs, which in turn has been linked to by faithmouse fan Timothy at TruthSeeker24's anti-N.W.O. corner . Very proud to have the cartoon displayed on Blogs For Terri. In unrelated linkage, Dave has given the faithmouse a link on his My Muse Is A Nerd.

Oklahoma Trooper Steven R. Smith Memorial Illustration, Revised

After being shot by a suspect, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Officer Steven R. Smith lived for the next seven years in a nursing home as a quadriplegic. He is survived by a son and a daughter.

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I posted the original memorial illustration of Trooper Steve Smith a month and a half ago, and was honored when his son Blake recently discovered the drawing and requested a copy to display next to his father's flag. I thought the drawing needed a little more work, which included better defining that the hands depicted belong to Trooper Smith's children, who in the drawing are packing up their father's belonging after his passing at the nursing home. I also suggested to Blake that I add a wheelchair to the drawing, to which he agreed, but the attempt failed.

I think this is a pretty good example of my almost destroying a good drawing after the fact by 'overthinking' it. Thanks to the Holy Spirit for stepping in and protecting the final version from myself.

Original version.

Krazy Konvert

Click cartoon for larger image. Largest.Group Says Rahman One of Thousands Awaiting Death Sentence for Accepting Christ - Agape Press

Had a lot of fun with this one. I saved the larger versions for the web with a purposefully lower resolution so they'd have a little of that older 'CMYK' newsprint look.

I've traded a few emails with Gail Nobles, who has a very creative and original collection of spiritual cartoons posted at her Little Benny site. Gail brings the world of Little Benny to life by way of illustration, animation and sound. Gail has created an engaging personal ministry, one which I think African American youth in particular may recognize themselves in and find inspirational.

This is one popular cartoon, judging from how regularly it shows up in adult oriented forums. The cartoon is a parody of the Hunter S. Thompson post suicide party, a highbrow private affair complete with champagne, fireworks and the graces of Johnny Depp, John Kerry and George McGovern. I've taken some time to revise the cartoon, which includes giving Faithmouse a new expression and making the McGovern/Eagleton button and John Paul II's The Place Within a little more readable. Well, perhaps not as readable here as it is in the forever hypothetical print version.

I've neglected my hat-tipping (trying to follow Salvage's advice and produce more toons and all that) but here are a few kudos-to SuaSponte for posting the recent Hillary cartoon in a forum at Debate Net as well as to Dog10025 for the post of same at our local Twin Cities forum. Thanks to Karen for her plug of faithmouse on Karen's Korner. New links include New Media Journal (under 'blogs and commentary sites,) Northland Catholic, Memphis, etc, Link Filter, The O! Antiphons, and The Earthen Vessel. Blogs for Terri has posted a Terri Schiavo toon from last year, which reminds me that the anniversary of Terri's murder is this Friday. A memorial illustration is in process.