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Here’s another take of mine on the Scottish language.
And if you’re into puns, here’s another silly pun cartoon.

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More Scottish If it pleases m’lady or m’lord, thou can followeth my comics on Instagram and Twitter. Haste Ye Back!

I also have a new YoutTube channel with cover songs for retro music of video games, TV shows and movie. You can subscribe to the new YouTube channel here.

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Here’s all of my history comics here (click on individual post to see the bonus panels).

And here’s another comic featuring David and Goliath.

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More comics with words that cannot hurt you on Instagram and Twitter.

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An ink drawing of a dwarf warrior, clenching his first. It’s been quite a while since I drew once of those.

Drawn on Clip Studio Paint Pro using a Wacom Intuos Pro tablet.

Here’s the pencil sketch version of this:

Here’s a time lapse YouTube video showing the various steps (rough sketch, pencil sketch, inking).

Note that in the rough sketch, I initially intended the head to be facing slightly upward, but a minute into the drawing I already drew it facing downwards without altering the rough sketch accordingly – it was a speed drawing and didn’t feel I need to change it in order to get the result I desired.

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Previous fantasy related stuff

• Burning Hands (comic, slightly NSFW)
• Politically Incorrect Tolkien (comic)

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Fact: at best the sorting hat would still perform at O(n log n)

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Here’s a previous Harry Potter cartoon.
And here’s a previous cartoon taking a shot at anti-vaxxers (sort of…)

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I’m really not sure how I feel about the latest statue defacing of historical figures such as Winston Churchill and Christopher Columbus. I’ll rephrase that – the Churchill thing is pure dumbness – how is the man who led Great Britain in its fight against Nazi Germany suddenly considered the bad guy?! But I do understand how Christopher Columbus can be seen as a negative character in history.

This tweet by Dr. Einat Wilf gives an interesting point of view I can easily relate to (especially since I’m Jewish):

“If Jews took down symbols of their discrimination, oppression, persecution, ethnic cleansing and genocide, not a stone or a flag would remain across the Western and Islamic worlds. Human history is mostly one of brutality and exploitation. To move forward we remember, not erase.”

As Dr. Wilf mentioned, Europe is filled with monuments of rulers and other historical figures who persecuted my people. The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, for example, are responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Spain (which peaked in 1492). I’ve traveled in Spain and have been in a monument dedicated to the two, but I’ve never felt any urge to deface their statues. For me they’re historical figures, who did awful things to my people as well as other peoples (they’re the monarchs who sent Columbus to his voyage). But they’re part of Spain’s history, for better or for worse.

On the other hand, I try to think how I’d react if I saw a statue of Adolf Hitler in Germany. Two of my grandparents survived the Jewish Holocaust, and both are the sole survivors of their respective families – meaning their entire families were destroyed. So in that case it’s a more recent experience, and much closer to me personally. I guess seeing a statue of Hitler would stir anger in me. But maybe if the plaque below the statue would mention his terrible acts, It’ll be easier for me to see the statue as a way of remembering the person and his horrible deeds, knowing he was real and was responsible for those great atrocities.

So yes, I am confused. But one thing I’m less confused about: I don’t like mobs. If a statue is to be removed, it shouldn’t be by vandals. It should be taken down in orderly manner, probably after some kind of majority vote place among the people who live in the area took place. The statue should certainly not be destroyed. Rather, it should be taken to the museum, so that history is not erased or forgotten. Otherwise, we’re no different than the Taliban blowing up statues in Afghanistan for not conforming with their religious and ideological beliefs.

Last, judging historical figures by modern standards does not make a lot of sense to me. Hitler, Genghis Khan, Attila – were all considered ruthless, vicious and extremely cruel even by the standards of their own times. But different historical periods had different standards. Slavery was relatively common in the ancient world, even among the most enlightened and civilized cultures. When a city was captured after a long siege, it was not uncommon for their citizens to be murdered, raped, enslaved – women and children included. In many societies children, and sometimes women, were considered the property of men. The Egyptian Pharaohs practiced incestuous marriage, and Roman noblemen used to marry young teenage girls.

Future generations may question our way of living – maybe they’ll question how we treated the planet, or how we depleted its resources, or how we consumed the flesh of other living things, or the fact that we’re still waging wars, or the way wealth is distributed in our societies. That does not necessarily make us evil. Most of us are living by standards that feel right to us, but are probably different from the ones that our children or grandchildren will live by.

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Here’s a comic where I judge historical military uniforms by modern standards.

And here’s a comic taking place back in medieval times.

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You can judge my past comics by modern standards on Instagram and Twitter.

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Some loose inspirations for the characters drawn in this comic:
For the villain – Hans from Die Hard (German accent!)
For the cop – Schwarzenegger in Terminator/Commando/Red Heat (German accent!), Bruce Willis as John McClane in Die Hard.
(And basically any action movie I watched as a kid).

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Here’s another comic about “Terminator”.
And another movie satire (Wizard of Oz).
And another comic about using accents in movies.

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There’s plenty of action going on in my Instagram and Twitter accounts.

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If you go with the Disney movie, the whole Rapunzel story takes place in the kingdom of Corona.

Here’s another comic about a fairy tale princess.
And here’s another my entire archive of Coronavirus cartoons.

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Stuck in a Rapunzel-style quarantine? Follow my comics on Instagram and Twitter.

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I’m binging the Office (again) to help me take my mind off the Coronavirus(*). One of the reasons I love that show so much is that so many characters there are truly original, you just never saw these kind of characters before. Dwight Schrute, brilliantly portrayed by Rainn Wilson, is certainly one of the most original, refreshing, and amusing characters that will enter (or probably already entered) TV’s hall of fame.

(*) Ironically, Dwight Schrute would probably have loved the plague. Quoting him: “There’s too many people on this Earth. We need a new plague.”

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Did you know I also draw personal caricatures?

Previous caricatures I’ve drawn:

• Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman
• James Gandolfini (who portrayed Tony Soprano)

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Here’s my entire Coronavirus comics archive.

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More comics to pass your time during the COVID-19 outbreak are waiting for you on Instagram and Twitter.

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(Small favor: this comic was inspired by a tweet that I saw the other day about how, judging by the way the US reacted to the Coronavirus, America’s first reaction to an alien invasion would be to lower interest rates. This sparked a whole set of ideas about what humanity’s reaction to an alien invasion would be like, based on our reaction to the Coronavirus. However, I couldn’t find the original tweet. So if by chance any of you encountered it and have the link to it, please let me know in the comments so I could credit the author here. Thanks!)

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My previous comic which mentioned the Coronavirus was published about a month and a half ago. Back then, COVID-19 was a distant disease that was spreading in Eastern Asia, something you read about in the news and moved on. Who would have thought that just a few weeks later, I would sit in my home with my wife and kids in “isolation” (which is just a nicer word for quarantine), defending myself from the virus? Who would have thought there’d be tens of thousands of dead in Italy and Spain? And thousands in the U.S? (and it’s just the beginning). Who would have thought that so many people would become instantly unemployed, and more people uncertain whether they’ll have a job to return to once the storm passes?

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As I’ve been obsessed with the virus lately, especially with the numbers, I had to do something to get it out of my system. I decided to put my programming skills to use and created this simple web site, which contains some graphs that illustrate the current status of COVID-19 in various countries that interest me. You can find it here:
http://idans.net/covid19/
It’s somewhat buggy (as it’s been a long time since I last used JavaScript) so you may need to refresh a few times before it loads. And it looks kinda crappy on your smartphone (looks better on tablets/laptops/desktops). But I update the data almost every day. Again, it’s more about my obsession with the data than anything else, but if you find the data interesting or would like some different data on it, let me know in the comments and I just might add it.

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Finally, my rate of publishing comics will naturally decrease in the next few weeks as I’m focusing on taking care of my family. But I will keep drawing, and I’m sure we’ll get through this dark period and enjoy better days. It will take time, but we’ll get there. In the meantime – stay healthy, and stay at home.

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