TEQUILA!

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Updated version of Thursday's cartoon. I'll try to post a color version of the above Mel Gibson 'tequila' cartoon sometime over the course of the next day or three.

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Drew this cartoon on the fly for Mickey at Hipinion, who requested an atheism cartoon, so I quickly sketched an idea of what atheism 'looks like'. It features a character I came up with about a year ago and never got around to putting down on paper; a goodnatured, atheist owl who lost his legs in the service.

I have this weekend's Stop The ACLU toon in progress, which features a new character as well.

Badass For Life

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Anarchist Cookbook at Cannabis' gangsta oriented MySpace Cannabisplanet has posted the Bad Ass For Life cartoon above, as has Ray at our own Stella Borealis: Catholic Northland Roundtable . Now that's a diverse audience. Thanks to EthicalGOP at Conservababes for posting the Bad Ass cartoon as well.

A hat tip to Alan Keyes' Renew America for posting the recent Devilcat Thanks Mel Gibson cartoon. The Right To Exist cartoon appeared recently on Truth And Action via their Pro-Life Blogs newsfeed. Barsom's MySpace page is showing the We're Going To The Hunter S. Thompson Suicide Party! cartoon. Mike aka HSN on his MySpace Glory To The Hynotoad page displays the Canada Day toon as evidence Americans aren't as bad as some people say they are. Melban's Live Journal Foobar State Of Mind displays the most recent Can't Get Through To The ACLU via the Stop The ACLU feed. Misty posted the For All You Do, This Thanks Is For You cartoon on Greg's MySpace page.

Received this email from Jereme-

Hi, I have been displaying your cartoons on my site for quite a while. I have recently updated the look of my site and have decided to use your cartoons as the main feature of the home page. I just wanted to thank you for such wonderful content. You can check out my site at WhatWouldJesusDownload.com God Bless-

Thanks!

TEQUILA! In Progress

A Mel Gibson/Devilcat cartoon, in progress.

I'm completing this cartoon online over the course of the next day or so in this Hipinion forum. Also trying to dig out an older Gaybear cartoon to finish and post at this thread on Portal Of Evil.

Visitors should know that the above links and a few others on this site aren't child safe. I go wherever people enjoy the cartoon. I have a reputation for never preaching, flaming or snarking at anyone in response to my work-anytime, anywhere, ever; although I'm always happy to explain a particular cartoon or line of thinking. This is because, even though faithmouse is decidedly Christian and conservative, I'm personally much more flawed than my critics and faithmouse is meant to be art.

This arrangement has created some odd bedfellows for the cartoon, but I hope well-intentioned visitors who feel that a Christian cartoon should be a certain way can look past that. I draw whatever intrigues me. After all, if I'm not interested in faithmouse, why should you be?

Stop The ACLU / Can't Get Through To The ACLU

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A Stop The ACLU / Neverborn cartoon, in progress.

For the Sunday Funnies at Stop The ACLU.

Tailrank displays the toon above via Stop The ACLU's feed, as does V.R.W.C. Agent Network. Faithmouse stats says that Fatherhood Forever is showing the Right To Exist cartoon, but darn if I can find it.

The recent Eviction Notice cartoon appeared a few days ago on Feministing. Thanks to Pharmacists For Life International for posting a recent Neverborn toon. A Neverborn toon from a few years ago which desperately needs a redraw has found its way to this Bolt2 forum.

As for the 'I wanna find that abortion cartoon on Newgrounds now' comment on the Bolt2 forum; I've also always felt that faithmouse would make for an entertaining animated series (Newgrounds is largely a flash animated cartoon gallery). Many times when I draw a cartoon I feel that I'm isolating a single image from a much longer animated storyline. In my fantasy world where all this happens I'm holding out for the right to write the scripts.

While we're on the subject of entertaining, I've decided after a few long thoughts to bring back the character of Gaybear. I suspect this will be a disappointment to those who applauded the Gaybear to Francis transformation, but the new ex-Gaybear Francis is as dull as dishwater and I can't think of a darn thing to do with him. He made better points for Christianity when he was both Gay and Christian and the whole gang loved him regardless. This is an artistic and an entertainment decision rather than a theological one, which I shy away from anyway just because I don't feel I'm qualified. Faithmouse is art which runs on a track parallel to my beliefs, but not necessarily so.

I thought up a few scenarios to bring back the character, but the end result of all of them would be to 'revert' ex-Gaybear to Gaybear, and I think that would sing false. The much prolonged storyline for this year of 2006 has Timothy A. Bear waking up after a two year sleep on a Squealy mattress to find that his world has changed dramatically: Gaybear has become Francis by way of devotion to the blessed Virgin, Augustine the Cat has become a priest, Atheist Ms. StarMole is a liberal Catholic, and Faith has married Blackbear and has six children, four of them adopted. The 'new' and current faithmouse storyline, which I originally created because I was depressed and decided to end the cartoon with all the characters possessing at least a little happiness, has its own internal dynamic, which I feel would be broken if I turned about and put part of it into reverse. Now I'm sort of interested to see where it goes.

The time-kink I've discovered in my own storyline is that missing two year period. A lot took place during and before that time, so I'll just draw that missing time. This is the period when Timothy still worked in the casino and thought of Faith as his girlfriend, when Faith was still crusading for truth and justice and had yet to meet her future husband Blackbear, when Augustine the Cat was still analyzing all things theological and had not as of yet heard his calling to the priesthood, when Gaybear still thought of himself as a homosexual and Ms. StarMole was our villain, which she really can't help but be. Neverborn remains Neverborn-even when he's pre-Neverborn in the womb, he's still Neverborn. The difference in all of this is that you the visitor already know the future of the characters, and of course there's the slow addition of all of those 'liberal' toons I made the commitment to introduce into faithmouse after the Something Awful hoo-too-do of a few months ago.

The final element is something I call POWER OF CHRIST, an encompassing theme I've flirted with here and there in the past but haven't committed to making a leading presence in the cartoon. POWER OF CHRIST looks like this, and this, and this. Most recently, this.

Devilcat Thanks Mel Gibson

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Revised version of a cartoon posted this morning.

Right To Exist Cartoon, In Hebrew

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I'd like to thank Eytan for his hand written translation of this cartoon into Hebrew.

The 'choose life' on Neverborn's sign is my own creation; my apologies if I've flubbed the translation.

Let's Draw Mel Gibson Cartoons

Cartoon in progress...

Faithmouse is #1 with a bullet on Google under the searchs term 'Mel Gibson Cartoons' and 'Mel Gibson cartoon'...so let's draw more Mel Gibson cartoons.

The recent Eviction Notice cartoon has landed on the Poor Mojo Newswire as a post titled Charge the little ******* rent - Women are Housing Projects for Fetuses (If only all abortion foes were as dumb as this one).

I recently learned that faithmouse was listed on page fifteen in the 2006 Guide to Christian Comics, edited by Richard Flores and presented by the CCAS: Christian Comics Arts Society. The compilation debuted at Comic Con International: San Diego in July.

Christ With Dead Children

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Thanks to Stacy Harp for posting yesterday's Right To Exist toon on Active Christian Media, as well as to Timothy for doing the same at his TruthSeeker24's anti-N.W.O. corner. Mary has posted the recent Hope4America toon as the splash image on her Hope4America Yahoo group. Alan Keyes' Renew America has also posted yesterday's Right To Exist cartoon. Trinny84 at the multi-lingual John Paul II Beatification board Totus Tuus has posted the John Paul II Pieta illustration. Carolina Cannonball of The Crescat gave the site an acknowledgement in her post promoting the Catacombers site.

Reagan In Hell, Revised

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Revision of a cartoon (redrawn Faith and assorted small details) originally posted two years ago.

Right To Exist

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A Pro-Life, Pro-Israel Neverborn cartoon. By request of Stacy Harp of Active Christian Media. A translation into Hebrew is in progress.

I've taken the liberty of posting today's cartoon on both Pro-Life Blogs and in Pookie18's Today's Toons forum at Free Republic.

This cartoon also features Chaim, a character who like Fraud Fits in yesterday's Stop The ACLU Sunday Funnies makes a return appearance after a long absence.

The recent Eviction Notice cartoon continues to appear in Pro-Life forums, Pro-Choice forums, and places in-between. The most recent posts include this in-depth but highly critical analysis at Pandagon (adult language), which is in turn linked by this 'interesting fetus cartoon' post at Pseudo-Adrienne's Liberal-Feminist Bias. Thanks as well to Takara for linking to the Eviction toon on her Tulip Field Of Dreams. Limbo at Koala Wallop has posted the cartoon in this Let's Talk About Web Comics thread.

Just noticed that End The Christian Right has become Shawn Coyle.net. I'll fix the broken link to the Bring Me The Head Of Faithmouse article the next time I update the 'Snark' page.

I've been working on a new three column version of this blog to both facilitate international visitors and to bring a little additional traffic to sites which go through the trouble of posting faithmouse cartoons in languages other than English. These sites will be given a link by name at the top of this site for their good efforts. If you would like to participate in this project, all you need to do is to occasionally post a faithmouse cartoon with a translation beneath the cartoon. Please leave a comment if you would like to be included, or email me at faithmouse (at) yahoo (dot) com.

An Older Mel Gibson Cartoon, Updated

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Mel Gibson Was 'Really On The Verge Of Suicide' Before His DUI Arrest -Deadline Hollywood Daily

An older Mel Gibson cartoon from March of 2004, drawn long before his recent drunk driving arrest and now notorious anti-semitic statements. I've updated the first panel with a more current version of Faith. In the second panel you can see what Faith looked like before the addition of her oversized hair bow and with her much heavier prehensile tail.

After reading about Mr. Gibson's arrest, I remembered that I had Mel calling Faith 'cat-sugar' in this cartoon, which I thought was curious considering that Mel referred to a Los Angeles Police woman as 'sugar xxx's' during his arrest.

Not in anyway to excuse Mel Gibson's behavior, but as a person who grew up in an alcoholic household I fully comprehend the twisted harm that alcohol (in this case, tequila) can do to a person's soul. I have to wonder if The Christ of Mel Gibson's very intense and intimate The Passion Of The Christ was in part inspired by the director's private battle with his own inner demons.

Like to draw a new Mel Gibson toon but I'm not exactly sure what it should be, which must be comparable to Mel's fans no longer knowing what to think of their hero. Perhaps updating and posting this older toon will give me an idea.

Stop The ACLU / Fraud Fits, In Progress

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For the Sunday Funnies at Stop The ACLU

ACLU Teams Up With Westboro Baptist Hate Cult - The Dread Pundit Bluto

Short but clear post by Bluto linked above which explains the subject of this weekend's Stop The ACLU toon. I also believe it's a basic human right to be able to lay loved ones to rest without harassment. Grieving families are denied their full right to free expression as long as the necessary activity of holding a funeral is allowed to become an invasive and disruptive public nightmare.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. - Matthew 5:5 Douay Rheims

There's a difference between protesting a funeral, where the state of the subject is absolute and cannot be influenced, and a counselor for life approaching a mother on a sidewalk outside of an abortion clinic, where the subject is still very much alive and the responsible party can be influenced to mercy, as many regularly are. Can the Westboro Baptists produce any post-protest grateful family members of the fallen?

As you can see from the date on the older cartoon posted below, Fraud Fits and his Boptist Church of Bunnies haven't been seen on this site since last November. Nice to have the opportunity to pay them a return visit.

Spiritual Shield

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New site logo I'm developing. A shield of spirit rather than of metal, which is my mood as of late.

Bill Hayes has included faithmouse as a link of interest. Thanks to N.I. for the translation of a recent toon into Esperanto on her Kajlahundo.

Global Warming

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A B16 and Vatican Kitty cartoon, in progress.
Pope Hoping Rome Meeting Would Be Fruitful - Zenit News

Notre Dame de la Guerison (Our Lady of recovery) is the same chapel Pope John Paul II the Great prayed at during a trip to the Alps in 1999. Ex-voto covers the walls, left by grateful petitioners as testimony to answered prayers.

Here's a link to a wonderful interactive panorama of the inside of the chapel of Notre Dame de la Guerison.

Janet Parshall's America / Neverborn Revision

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Revision of a cartoon drawn in 2004.

Weekly Christian Conservative Logo

Logo for Angel D. and Faith at their Weekly Christian Conservative.

Lines Of Duty / Pasadena, California Police Officer Kyle R. Ballard Memorial Illustration, Updated

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Police Officer Kyle Ballard - Officer Down

I have the very bad habit of loading too many things on my plate, and then finding myself boxed in by current commitments. Part of my problem is that faithmouse is a full time hobby, and not my full time job. One day perhaps this will be all that I do, and I won't find myself leaving so many important projects hanging on the line to dry.

I need to add Officer Ballard's call number to the back of his shirt in the memorial illustration above. His wife has been good enough to supply the information, and I haven't been good enough to finish the drawing and mail her a few copies, or to mail other promised portraits and cartoons to a host of other very patient souls over the course of a long period of time. So, faithmouse is on hold for a few days while I take care of some much delayed business....

Repomancer's Cartoon

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Latest version, in progress.

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I recieved the following request from committed Christian and active Marine Sedna-

Could you make a prayer request cartoon for Repomancer? He's a regular at the Portal of Evil, and he's hanging on to days so he can get a much-needed transplant. He's been a helluva brave soul about it too, he's a good-natured guy, and I'll be praying for him myself tonight. I know this sounds like an odd request, but the guy really is battling it out, and I think that any sort of support we can give him can help. I hate to burden you with this request, but you have a decent audience. He's currently fifth on the waiting list, and he's being a very brave soul about the thing. The fellows at PoE are being very supportive of him, and it's that quality of people that makes me enjoy that forum.

Repomancer's User Forum - Portal Of Evil

Stop The ACLU / United Nations Omissions On Human Rights

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For the Sunday Funnies at Stop The ACLU

U.N. Investigative Body Lacks Credibility to Judge U.S. Human Rights Record- Church and State

I've updated the above image this Monday morning and have one more revision in progress. More than likely, next Sunday's Stop The ACLU toon will be on the subject of the ACLU taking on the defense of Fred Phelps. A discussion defending the ACLU and mentioning this cartoon can be found on this Straight Dope forum.

Pearl Necklace

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Govt said Pope gave a necklace to PM's wife - Renew America

Thanks to Christine at Ramblings Of A GOP Soccer Mom for posting today's cartoon. Ed Stoffil has added faithmouse to his humor blogroll. Grats to Alexa at Birth Story for posting the recent 'Eviction Notice' cartoon. Arm-chair philosopher, theologian, husband and father Garvis has a kind post regarding the same at his With Eternity In Mind.