Hope 4 America

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One more variation. The image of Swoopy was pilfered and tweaked from this Joy cartoon, as my scanner still isn't working. Sort of interesting to see how the characters have re-designed themselves in just one year's time. The original version of this toon was originally intended for Mary's Hope4America Yahoo group. Glad to finally getting around to finishing it. Now, about that scanner....

God Bless America

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I'm having dreaded 'scanner issues' (groan) so today's image is a Photoshop completed version of a pre-scanned toon begun a few months back. The background is a photo I took during an anniversary trip with the original faithmouse to Niagara Falls. Yesterday's B16/Vatican Kitty cartoon, which relies upon good old-fashioned drawing (and scanning) waits in limbo. Hopefully for not too long.

Thanks to sunnyday at This is NOT a job for superheroes for her Meet Neverborn post. I came across sunnyday's post while working on the above Neverborn toon and nationalized a copy for her own use, and for the use of any other pro-life blogger or visitor from the Philippines as well-

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God bless everyone.

Ann's Catacombers site, which has hosted faithmouse on the front page for the past few years, has received an endorsement of 'Excellent' via a review by Catholic Culture.net (formerly Peter's Net)-

Catacombers describes itself as "an online Catholic apostolate supporting Catholic artists in the creation of works that enhance faithfulness to the Church, its teachings and leadership, and reverence in Catholic liturgical worship." To this end, the site accepts written works, poetry and art to display or publish online. They also have several forums for artist to share ideas. This is a well nice site that contains wonderful resources not only for Catholic artists of all kinds, but also for Catholics who want to appreciate the beauty of our culture and take advantage of the many graces of our Catholic heritage.

Congratulations!

Thanks to Pookie18 at his Free Republic Today's Toons thread for posting last Sunday's Stop The ACLU parking ticket cartoon.

The cardinal saga is over. The players, it seems, have flown the coop.

A happy ending.

Pearl Necklace, In Progress

A new B16/Vatican Kitty cartoon, in progress. Should have the first draft posted later this evening.

I'm also working on a new version of the Neverborn Janet Parsall's America cartoon from 2004. Janet has allowed me to sell a few items with the design to her fans, and, as she told me last year at an event here in the Twin Cities, she herself uses the mug in the studio while she's on the air, which is beyond cool. I haven't advertised that I have the design for sale; I have too much respect for Janet to try to make money off her good name. I also haven't done so because I'm just lousy at trying to make money.
Anyway, Neverborn doesn't look like that anymore, and I haven't posted the link to my Cafe Press store because ...Neverborn doesn't look like that anymore. JPA/Neverborn fan Zanese would like to buy a few mugs, which is a great excuse to re-do the design.

Thanks to Spero News for posting the recent Stop The ACLU Parking Ticket cartoon. Much obliged to N. I. Annakindt at his multilingual moreover the dog went with them... for posting the recent B16/Vatican Kitty cartoon in Esperanto and German.

Neighborhood Siren, Revised

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Revised version of yesterday's toon.

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Photograph of the baby cardinals from last Saturday. I'll get the ladder out later today (Tuesday) to see what might be new in Birdland.

In the meantime, please enjoy this pic I took yesterday morn of a baby bunny in our backyard.

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Neighborhood Siren

Click above for larger image. Cartoon inspired by a request by CCW at his new Christian Conservative Weekly blog. I'll add a few more details to this cartoon (not everyone can hear the siren) and work it into a logo design for his site in a day or two.

Tailrank is one of the sites displaying the most recent Stop The ACLU cartoon via the latter's well distributed syndication feed. Kevin Keith at his Sufficient Scruples 'bioethics, healthcare policy and related issues' blog has posted a lengthy criticism of the recent Eviction Notice cartoon entitled You Are A Housing Project For Fetuses. Thanks to Ray at our local
Minnesotan Stella Borealis/Northland Catholic Roundtable for posting the same, as well as to Cathworld, which has included the cartoon as a recent Catholic blog highlight. Jean has posted the cartoon at her Catholic Fire.


I've posted a new page of Pope Benedict XVI and Vatican Kitty cartoons. A new cartoon for the collection called Pearl Necklace is in progress.

Between the single subject and issues cartoons, faithmouse has a timeline. I've gathered those cartoons together and posted them on a new faithmouse continuing storyline 2006 page.

Stop The ACLU / Parking Ticket

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For the Sunday Funnies at Stop The ACLU.

ACLU Gets It Right For Once - Tongue Tied

Haven't used Woody Duck in a cartoon for at least the past three years or so. Glad to show him a little daylight.

Thanks to N. I. Annakindt at the multilingual moreover the dog went with them... for posting the recent B16-Vatican Kitty World Cup toon.

Faithmouse on Spero News

Faithmouse now appears on Spero News, a religious news and analysis site created last year by veteran journalist Robert Duncan, an ombudsman for foreign press in Spain and vice president for the Press Organization of Ibero-American Journalists. Spero also has a spanish language site, which can be found here. Spero is part of the Google News aggregator, and contributes content to many Christian and Catholic sites, including Crosswalk, LifeSite, and Spirit Daily.
Very happy to be on Spero. Thanks kindly.

Thanks to Alan Keyes' Renew America for posting the recent Eviction Notice cartoon. A hat tip to Chris at The World...IMHO for doing the same.

Spiritual Skating, In Progress

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Skate Time 209 Changes ‘Christian Skate Time’ To Spiritual Skate! - Traditional Values Coalition

Eviction Notice

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Neverborn toon. In progress.

Cartoons are delayed again, as I've had to deal with a health problem which emerged over the course of the past twentyfour hours and required a CT scan. I'm home now and on antibiotics, which has earned me the luxury of being able to hammer away at cartoons throughout the day on Thursday.

I was able to work on the inked version of today's Neverborn cartoon in both an emergency clinic and a hospital. Don't know if that might give the image more impact, but at least I've tried to keep things rolling. I may be able to post a finished version tonight.

World Cup Celebrazione, Vatican Kitty Style, 2

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Poupouri

This is a rather long post, so I'm completing it a bit at a time. First off, a baby cardinal pic-



Can't get the camera too close to these guys now as I'm afraid of spooking them out of the nest. What's cool about this pic is that you can clearly atop their heads the ligher tuffs of feathers which will eventually become the cardinal's signature sailboat shaped crown. Hard to see all the birds at one time, but I think I can count seven tuffs in the pic above, a number which matches the number of the original eggs in the nest. So, they've all made it. No one's turned red here as of yet. Female cardinals are a much lighter shade of red than the male, so perhaps these are all female.



Thanks to Pillars Magazine for posting a cartoon on their news page. A hat tip to Adam and Andrea of posting the Neverborn 'What About My Rights?' cartoon on their Adams Web. The Phantom Bounced at Lord Of The Dark Side had added faithmouse to the blogroll. Denny Hartford has given the cartoon a nice plug on his Vital Signs Blog. Thanks to Alexa at Birth Story for a few recent cartoon posts, including this post of the 'priceless' cartoon. Poster Nuala at Taylor Hicks Fan has posted both the Discovery space shuttle toon and a recently revised faithmouse prayer toon.

Ray at our local Catholic blogsite Stella Borealis has also posted the Discovery toon. Thanks to west rhino for the plug on Shadow Of Diogenes. Link trade forthcoming on Kevin's Jarabina conservative/Christian bumpersticker site. Cyber Congregation has a link somewhere to a recent ACLU toon, and Chris at The World...IMHO has also posted a recent ACLU ferret. Thanks to Peter at Pro-Life Blogs for posting a Neverborn toon. A hat tip to Morpheus at Winners Never Quit for adding faithmouse to his blogroll.

Revisions to recent toons are still in progress; in the meantime, here's a few spot illustrations-

Drawing intended for the World Cup toon showing a group of Vatican Kitties watching the match on Papal T.V.

The second panel in the Stop The ACLU Roberta Mapleduck toon was originally meant to be read 90 degrees clockwise. Here's a detail, showing some impatient ferrets-

Detail from the same cartoon of Cuban, the stinkbug, Roberta Mapleduck's assistant. Cuban is actually quite an excellent artist, and bears more than a little resentment towards his employer.

World Cup Celebrazione, Vatican Kitty Style

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Been short of time lately, so I've had to rush-draw the last few cartoons-I'll post an updated and color version of today's B16 and Vatican Kitty cartoon along with a few other recent cartoons later this evening/Tuesday morning. I also owe hat tips to a number of sites for posting individual cartoons and/or links to faithmouse; I'll get around to those as well. Grazie!

Stop The ACLU / Roberta Mapleduck

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For 'The Sunday Funnies' at Stop The ACLU.com

W.Va. School Board Sued Over Jesus Artwork - Washington Post

ACLU files suit on behalf of controversial artist fired from her teaching job - NOLA.Com

Presidente Felipe Calderon De Las Felicitaciones

Click above for larger image. In progress. Presidente Calderon will be reaching through the crowd of well wishers and shaking Neverborn's hand in the completed cartoon.

Daily Mass Catholic Pro-Lifer Wins Mexico Presidential Elections over Abortion Supporter - LifeSite

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Evangelists

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New Poot, In Progress

A Faithmouse Fourth Of July

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As much as I can post at the moment without risking death at the hands of the original faithmouse, on this fourth of July, with family waiting our arrival across town. Because I'm making you wait, I'll let you in ahead of time on what this image will consist of- a giant cross in the sky, composed of exploding fireworks culled from the pics I took last night of the show Chris and I saw last night in New Prague, Minnesota. I used some of these same fireworks in the 'Discovery' space shuttle cartoon posted earlier today.

I'll post the completed version of this cartoon late this evening, along with the completed rude 'Poot' toon. As many visitors have taken a hiatus from their computers over the weekend, tomorrow will still be a nice day to view these images sometime between return-to-work tasks.

Today's baby cardinals pic. Click for large image.

Why I'm postings photographs of living creatures in and around our home, here's a pic of my monster goldfish Archbishop Finn, who seemed a bit astounded that I would deem to point a camera his way.

I beg your pardon!

Discovery

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Cardinals, A Day Lilly, And A Cartoon Revision In Progress

I was able to take some photographs this morning of our cardinal nest in natural light. Click images below for much larger versions.

You can make out one of the babies heads to the left in the picture above, a little out of focus because it raised up to see (hear) what was going on...

A day lilly in our garden.



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Rework in progress of yesterday's Stop The ACLU toon. I'll have the 'Poot' Fourth of July toon finished late this evening.

Stop The ACLU / Free Speech Outage

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Valedictorian Speech Cut off at the Name of Christ - LifeSite

I ran into some problems with the Roberta Mapleduck cartoon, and decided to substitute it for this one instead, which I drew between 12:30 and 5 A.M. this morning. I'll slowly fiddle forward with the previous ACLU toon. Should make for a nice post next Sunday.