Toon 3/31/05 Terri Schiavo Day

The 'Ten Commandment' cartoon previewed below has been postponed until sometime next week.

Faithmouse.com Under Attack

Must be some problem with my firewall.

Tomorrow's Toon Today

In progress...

Alan Keyes' Renew America

Faithmouse is now a sister site on Alan Keyes' Renew America.

Toon 3/30/05

I'd like to thank De "Nederlandse Prinses" Openbaarde... of Blogs For Terri for showing the most recent Terri Schiavo toon.

One more cartoon for Terri is in the works.

Oh, heck

I've been having a hair pulling fight with today's cartoon, so here's a promotional cartoon drawn two years ago to hold hungry cartoon fanatics at bay.



You can tell this is an older toon because Augustine is 'cat' sized and faith doesn't have any eyelashes. On the back wall are a few oil paintings (I paint much better than I cartoon)-most are role model portraits commissioned by Saludos Hispanos magazine with whom I've had a ten year relationship. Saludos has an online PDF webzine which currently features three of my paintings.

Thanks, Renew America

Good Friday's toon has been posted on the main page of Alan Keyes' Renew America, which is a great honor.
I'd like to thank Daniel at Globe Lens for posting the cartoon as well.

Tomorrow's cartoon will be a completion of the toon shown early last week.

Toon 3/27/05 Easter Sunday

Today's cartoon is a rework of Sunday's Easter toon.

Faithmouse took a vow of silence a few weeks ago, and so far I'm pleasantly surprised at the results. Words can get in the way.
And I don't miss the hand lettering.

Easter Greetings from Madonna & Friend

If there was ever serious consideration given by anyone to Mrs. Ciccone's 'religious' convictions (Kabbalah reinvented as a prosperity cult and as far away from accepted Jewish beliefs as this Minnesota cartoonist is from the Eiffel Tower) this picture, taken at a costume party shortly before Easter weekend as the Pope remains seriously ill and possibly dying, should put open-minded considerations of her 'faith' to bed.

These two are going to be waiting in Purgatory, in these costumes, for a very, very, very long time.

Terri Bleeding From Eyes and Mouth

Discussion thread at Free Republic (over 6,000 views at this writing.)

I'd like to thank Curt at North Western Winds for posting the latest cartoon, as well as Tim at C-Pol.

I emailed a hello to John at Blogotional yesterday and he responded by posting one of my favorite toons. Thanks, John!

I've just noticed that Mark at MarkNicodemo has also posted the Schiavo toon. Holy smokes! I should be embarrassed but I'm appreciative that as many people as possible are seeing the image. Those who've followed faithmouse for the past six years know that as a habit I'll borrow from the headlines to make some sort of reference to Christ. The fact that the few people I've contacted directly have responded so positively to the cartoon has been humbling and encouraging.

Mark Nicodemo also posted a few words about the same Thomas Sowell article I referenced a few days ago (great minds think alike) but the exerpt Mark featured on his own blog is much better than mine and deserves repeating.

'Terri Schiavo is being killed because she is inconvenient to her husband and because she is inconvenient to those who do not want the idea of the sanctity of life to be strengthened and become an impediment to abortion. Nor do they want the supremacy of judges to be challenged, when judges are the liberals' last refuge.'

During the past year the disabled and traditional abortion opponents have joined forces with the same impedus that brought blacks and jews together during the Civil Rights movement. In two sentences Sowell explains the why and what, and who we're fighting against.

Toon 3/25/05 Good Friday-Terri Schiavo 4

For a continuing and riveting on the scene report from Texas to the Hospice in Florida, visit the blog of my friend Becki Snow (aka The Question Fairy.)
Please email Becki's friend Jacqueline (who's in daily contact with Becki) and tell her to tell Becki that her week long hunger strike is over. They've both done a great job, and now it's time to celebrate Christ' victory by coming back to life again.
Here's today's cartoon-



Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, 'Woman, this is your son.' Then to the disciple he said, 'This is your mother.' And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
After this, Jesus knew that everything had now been completed and, so that the scripture should be completely fulfilled, he said: I am thirsty. A jar full of sour wine* stood there; so, putting a sponge soaked in the wine on a hyssop stick, they held it up to his mouth. After Jesus had taken the wine he said, 'It is fulfilled'; and bowing his head he gave up his spirit.

-John 19:25-30 The New Jerusalem Bible

*Vinegar

Thomas Sowell: The Cruel and Unusual Murder of Terri Schiavo

'Terri Schiavo's only crime is that she has become an inconvenience -- and is caught in the merciless machinery of the law. Those who think law is the answer to our problems need to face the reality that law is a crude and blunt instrument.
Make no mistake about it, Terri Schiavo is being killed. She is not being "allowed to die." '


Thomas Sowell is a leading conservative writer and the author of one of my favorite books A Conflict of Visions. He's a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and in 1998 was elected to the American Philosophical Society (philosophical in it's original definition denoting the study of the sciences.) Mr. Sowell's article can be read here.

Toon 3/24/05 Prayer Power

Japanese Cute Free Mouse Blog USA

I've posted my first keyword rich faithmouse page in Japanese as well as an updated Free Web Cartoon page, which includes the new blog sized image.
Pray tell, how can one person work such wonders?
I drink Ovaltine!
I suspect much of the text on the Japanese page will resemble hieroglyphics unless you've activated Japanese encoding for your computer, and some of the cartoons may not make sense unless you've activated Christ in your heart, or, as posted via Kerry at Smoothing Plane -
To those with faith, no explanation is necessary. To those without faith, no explanation is sufficient -Bernadette of Lourdes

Toon 3/23/05 Terri Schiavo 3

Toon 3/22/05 Cheer!

Keeping strong in the faith requires a little spiritual excercise now and then...

Here's an image from the 'Christ on Mars' series begun last year, posted using Blogger's 'Hello' service.  

Toon 3/20/03 Terri Shiavo 2

Toon 3/18/05 Terri Schiavo

Larger image can be viewed by clicking on the cartoon.

I regularly view your cartoons, as they are listed in the cartoon gallery on YouthFire.com, but today's brought me to tears. I have been so disturbed by the Terri Shiavo case, and pray that Congress is able to help her soon. I have a cousin in a very similar state as Terri, a beautiful young girl who was badly injured in a car accident. She too, breathes on her own, as Terri does. After lots of hard work, she is now able to do basic signs to communicate and makes noises to express her joy, or sadness. The thought of someone forcing her parents to stop feeding her, even though her eyes are as big and bright as Terri's, horrifies me.
Thank you for the cartoon, and the comforting fact that we as a Christian community are behind Terri. -emailer Beau

Thank you, Beau. I haven't received much feedback on that cartoon and I began to wonder if I made it too difficult to understand. I'm happy you saw the point, which was that even a starving child from a third world country would possess enough empathy to offer whatever food he or she had to a helpless Terri Schiavo. It's a blessing that you emailed me with that confirmation (I'm working on a new Terri Schiavo 'toon' at the moment by the way, which I hope to have online in a few hours.)
Cases such as that of your cousin versus that of the under reported number of newborns being euthanized in Holland are demarcation lines in the fight for life being waged in the developed world, of which some elements now brazenly declare 'we've decided your unfortunate situation is an inconvenience to us-we're too practical to be burdened with your long term care.' Unending sacrifice for others, the very heart of the Christian message, is the antithesis of a society which views itself in servitude to a doctrine of the 'survival of the fittest.'
On the Terri Schiavo front, the good news seems to be that Congress will be having a special session tomorrow just for her, and that the President is returning to Washington to sign the legislation which they will enact. So, there's good reason to believe she'll get her feeding tube back in a day or two.
Again, thanks for encouraging email. It means a lot!
God bless,
Dan

Toon 3/16-17/05 Conviction & Repentance

This cartoon was inspired by the recent confluence of a suspected murderer on the run and a God referenced woman who shared with her kidnapper The Purpose Driven Life, which led to his eventual surrender.
While this cartoon doesn't directly address the principals in this amazing story, hopefully it advertises the point that even complete monsters who do a great deal of harm can be convicted of their sin by way of the conscience of God; an act which can then lead to repentance.
Of course, Godzilla is a fictional monster. We like him just the way he is. This cartoon should in no way be interpreted as a call for his rehabilitation.