Hallelujah Diet

A cartoon in progress which references the popular biblically based Hallelujah diet.

New posts such as this one are being backdated, in order to give our successful Googlebombing project at the top of the site as much attention as possible.

Blessed Mother Teresa, and other paintings in progress

Another completed Blessed Mother Teresa portrait. Did you know that British author Christopher Hitchens was the sole witness the Vatican called to testify against Mother Teresa's beatification in 2003? His opinion was judged to be without merit, which probably led to his penning the irrational God Is Not Great, in which he argues religious belief is entirely without merit.


A Pope John Paul II the Great portrait in progress. All high tones for now in this first application of oil; you can see the original black acrylic underpainting around the edges of the canvas.


A Reverend Billy Graham portrait in progress. How can you not have him with a Bible? The time period here is from the Johnny Cash era, around 1969 or so when his hair was just beginning to turn white. My main reference material is from YouTube crusade videos, although I did purchase a 1960 Life Magazine issue from Midway books in St. Paul today to help with the eyes.

For this portrait I've applied a water/gesso/clear acrylic gel base coat over Polyflax canvas and then sketched out the figure with a black Derwent flat compressed charcoal pencil. After spray fixing the drawing to keep it from running I apply a second acrylic gel coat tinted with ochre and burnt sienna. More than likely I'll apply a third acrylic coat (well watered so as not to lose our canvas texture) consisting of some final dark and lights before proceeding with the oil application. I'm hoping to execute the final stage alla prima using a Vermeer-like technique, although I really dislike sticky and long-drying mediums. Attracts cat hair.

Bestest New Friends Exit Iowa

Following the Barack Obama/Mike Huckabee caucus victories in Iowa.

Just a sketch; still need to add the trampled corn field from which Ms. StarMole and Timothy A. Bear have just exited.

Usually, these two never agree on anything. When they do, well-you figure it out. I'm too busy painting.

Mother Teresa Painting

Click photograph above to see larger painting. Largest.
Oil portrait of Mother Teresa, in progress.

Believe there was an election somewhere yesterday...

Huckafree

All about Mike Huckabee.
Jimmy Carter is a Baptist Christian as well. How soon we forget.

Thanks kindly to A Shot In The Dark for the 2007 Shootie Award-

The “Howard Dean” Trophy For Leaving Liberals Screaming and Sputtering: Every year for the last, oh, two years or so, the City Pages - the occasionally brilliant but always reliably hip-”counterculture”-lefty local “alternative” freebie ‘zine - gives two “Best Blog” awards. The “Best Liberal Blog” is generally stridently, constantly political (”MNVolved”, I think, in ‘06, although it didn’t survive much beyond the award, and “Clucking Stool” in ‘07); the “Best Conservative Blog” has been the one that talks the least about politics. In ‘06 it was Nihilist in Golf Pants, and the award seems to have gutted the spirit of the once-prolific stalwarts. But in ‘07, the “award” went to Dan Lacey of “Faithmouse”. Perhaps trying to avoid the City Pages “Best New Band” jinx (the “winners” inevitably break up) Lacey turned around and sold the “award” on EBay. It drew sputtering from the usual assortment of left-leaning waxy yellow blogbuildup, but who cared? The quietest blog smackdown of the year, it was also by far the best.

I promise, Mitch, never to sell my priceless Shootie on Ebay.

Mutlu Yhlar Ug- Neverborn/Bob Ross.

Kat4ever73, Other People, Susie's LiveJournal - Happy New Christ!

Cartoon Blues - Happy New Christ!

Gangster Paradise - Ganstas For Lyfe.

BLNK::Certified Qu3en:: - Ganstas For Lyfe.

(I've corned the market on pro-life Gangster baby images).

Waffle On - Happy New Year Portal of Evil/ Gerald Ford mask cartoon.

Political Groove - Ruby Jewels cartoon.

NorthwestTechno - 2007 New Year/No Underwear cartoon.

SpizzSurfer - Same.

XPeople (Italian) - Santa Claus is Catholic.

Mother Teresa oil portrait, in progress. Click above for larger image.

Now, back to the art studio...

Happy New Christ! (from Pope Benedict XVI)

A Pope Benedict XVI New Year's cartoon. Click above for larger.

B16 wishes you all a very happy New Christ!

Actuarial Outpost - Bumpa Your Rumpa For Lyfe cartoon.

Dumbrella - Christopher Hitchens cartoon.

GuRoNSenEnEpTi's Hi5 - Second Life cartoon (registration required).

WordForge - Principal John Klang memorial cartoon.

Swami Durchananda's MySpace - Donnie Davies 'God Hates Fags' panels.

QuickSilverScreen - Hillary Chipmunk.

Fröken D (Sweden, I think) - Neverborn/Paris Hilton.

Rambodoc - 2007 New Year's cartoon.

Ðãt HøÑë¥*ღ*ÐîP Ü ëÑv¥[*M@ría*]«¬'s MySpace - same.

Joy

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Intended the above as a new Christmas Day cartoon in three panels; 1-Neverborn flies through a very large 'O' in the word 'joy', 2-Faith enters as seen above, and 3-Timothy A. Bear tries to enter through a much smaller 'joy' with the word becoming stuck around his neck.

I settled for the above; simpler and especially quicker since I'm engaged in so much painting.

Journalfen - ACLU Christmas Grinch cartoon

Blogs4Huckabee - Huckacross cartoon

Elvis Ramone MySpace - Neverborn/Morrissey cartoon

Soccer Hooligan - Blue Gaybear cartoon

Morrissey Solo Forum - Neverborn/Morrissey cartoon

Pookie 18's Today's Toons at FreeRepublic - ACLU Ferret toon

Gummybearz MySpace - Christ With Dead Children

Cdarnau MySpace - Happy New Year Portal of Evil cartoon

Jesus F*** - Happy Thanksgiving Pilgrims cartoon

Wide Awakes - ACLU Ferret toon

Wheels on Steel - Terrible Mistake cartoon

Nafl - Neverborn/Delivery Refused, Return To Sender

Season For The Reason

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Santa Claus Is Catholic

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A Christmas cartoon from last year, featuring Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican Kitty, Ms. StarMole, her nephew Chauncey-World Scout, and Al Gore as a slipper.

Stop The ACLU Ferret / Late To The Nativity, Again

Nothing says Christmas like the ACLU Ferret. Late to the Nativity once again, but at least he got a ride from THE Moonbat of Canterbury.

For the Sunday Funnies at Stop The ACLU.

Tony Blair Converts to Catholicism

Tony Blair Converts to Catholicism-AOL News

Congratulations! What to say it wasn't THE Archbishop of Canterbury's pre-Christmas piddling on the Nativity 'myth' (we Catholics embrace our traditions, instead of publicly dismissing them) which pushed him the rest of the way up the aisle?

If C. S. Lewis were alive today he'd be 109 years old and Catholic.

Santa Christ

Christ disguised as Santa Claus in a Christmas cartoon from 2004. Click Santa Christ to view a larger version.

I'm taking some time off from cartooning, which gives me a chance to show some older cartoons such as the one above. Merry Christmas!

Blogs4Brownback - Faithmouse Friday

MafiaRPG - Donnie Davies/God Hates Fags panel

Dry White Toast MySpace - Grateful She's Dead

Church And State - Bad Santa

Free Dominion - Fraud Fits Loves Lawsuits
Free Dominion is the Canadian 'Free Republic'.

Zolaboard - ACLU Grinch (used as avatar)

Debbie Schlussel - link to Energy Saver Bulb cartoon.
Debbie is a frequent guest on Bill O'Reilly's show on Fox.

Reformed Hispanic - Neverborn/Swoopy Blogs4Life promo toon

Zanz - Neverborn/Delivery Refused, Return To Sender

Crime Club - Bad Ass For Life

One of a half dozen portraits of Mother Teresa I've painted during the past decade. Not the best background on this particular version, which is why I still have it. Hard to sell something I know could be better. It's come in handy though as reference for a newer version-

First application of oil over an acrylic underpainting. The background is off to a much better start, I think. Should have this completed and posted by Christmas eve.

Merry Christmas, 2007

I'm going to take a hacienda from the cartoon and produce Catholic themed oils instead. You can keep track of the paintings both here and at the original http://www.faithmouse.com/.

If you have a more traditionally oriented Catholic site you should be very pleased with the newer work, especially if you're running the regularly updating image.

I started a Faithmouse archive and forum about a month ago, which I'll return to now and then for the purpose of posting all past cartoonery. Not absolutely sure how many past toons I've drawn but I suspect it's over one thousand. It'll take some time.

Anyway, I've decided the above cartoon makes for a very nice segway on turning the site over to more spiritual, realistic work. Many visitors don't realize that I have a background as a displayed and published oil painter previous to creating Faithmouse.

Anyway, Merry Christmas! Should have a new Mother Teresa painting posted in a day or three. If you have any suggestions for Catholic-themed oils, I'll be happy to consider them.

Thanks to Psycheout at Blogs4Brownback for his most recent Faithmouse Friday.

QueensU has our banner logo on their Facebook page.

A Ms. StarMole/Chauncey, World Scout cartoon is the background to on KoreyJD's YouTube page.

Taylor's MySpace - Baby Morrissey cartoon

The recent Mitt Romney Is A Mormon, Mormon, Mormon! cartoon can be found at Religiopoliticaltalk.

Xtalk has the B16/Chauncey, World Scout/Santa Claus Is Catholic cartoon.

Neverborn/Bad Ass For Life can be found at Ugolok.

Bulletstar - Gangstas For Lyfe.

Tribalwars - Neverborn/Paris Hilton/Room Service cartoon.

The Nancy Pelosi/Harry Ried/Faithmouse Prayer Cooties cartoon can be found at Navy, Together We Serve.

Pookie18 posts to his Today's Toons thread at Free Republic.

Whitethizzle posts the Ganstas For Lyfe toon to his Gaia Profile page.

Pennsylvania Righty Blogs displays the ACLU Thanksgiving cartoon.

Somewhere within the German KathNews can be found the Stella Borealis banner.

A thread at Fark has the Mitt Romney's Dog cartoon.

Huckabee's Floating Cross

Revision of yesterday's cartoon.
Mike Huckabee is being followed wherever he goes by a floating cross huckatoon. Inspired by the campaign's official Christmas huckavideo.



Seriously now; it seems you can't have a simple huckacross in a Christmas huckagreeting without some people getting all up in arms...

Neverborn Promotes Mike Huckabee, January 2007

A Mike Huckabee cartoon I drew for the mikehuckabeepresident2008 blogspot blog back in January as part of my effort to create promotional cartoons for every member of the Pro-Life Blogs blogroll and also to promote the 2nd annual Blogs4Life conference at the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. (I signed cartoons at the 1st while Chris handed out promos for fellow bloggers who had sponsored our trip-we both handed out promos on the National Mall later during the soggy March For Life).

Faithmouse and Neverborn; a wet day in D.C.

Pretty cool to see this Neverborn cartoon suddenly surface today on page one of Google image search under the querie 'Mike Huckabee cartoon.'

Faithmouse hasn't abandoned her support of Alan Keyes, but it would negligent not to note the sudden ascendancy of the Governor of Arkansas with a new cartoon, in progress.

Thanks kindly from an original Brooklynite to a self-described 'queer vegan treehugging idealist living, working and learning in Brooklyn' for the post of the Otters Holding Hands For Christ cartoon (inspired by the endearing YouTube video) and accompanying plug+link on her Pink Rabbit Says Peace Now!

Bad Santa

For the Sunday Funnies at Stop The ACLU
Faithmouse discovers that the ACLU Ferret has disguised himself as Santa Claus. A very bad Santa, indeed.

Kitty Lucia

Happy belated Santa Lucia Day!

Saint Lucy-Catholic Online

Holiday: Lucia Day, December 13-SwedishKitchen

Sorry I'm late-a stalled cartoon was blocking the road.

This was supposed to be about those glow-in-the-dark cats from South Korea, which seemed like a pretty nifty idea two days ago. The candles on top of Augustine's head were meant to look like tall strands of DNA, only glowing. You'll just have to imagine how awesome a Glowing Cloned Cat With DNA Head-Wreath/Santa Lucia Day cartoon might have been because I sure couldn't draw it.

My wife and I like to serenade our skittery white seal point Lucia with the following sweet lyric, which amuses us endlessly:

Kitty cat on the bed
Purring besides our head
Kitty Lucia, Kitty Lucia!

-sung to the tune of the original Italian folksong.

Hillary's Dirt Becomes The Story

You don't have to listen too closely to hear that steady chop chop chop coming from the heart of liberal woodland; it's the sound of the MSM deciding en mass to fell a squat, pant suited tree.

How did this sorry spectacle transpire? Let us review-

Leathered by years of monkey cartoons and comedy central skits, Mr. Bush continues to plow ahead with his agenda, media and public opinion be darned. Defying Time magazine predictions of non-influence, the President benefits from just shy of double the current approval rating of the dead-on-arrival Dem controlled Congress. He's getting everything he wants, nearly. The self-neutered MSM, taken out of the influence game as a result of their own snarky arrogance can only stand by and wait for the coming Democratic liberation, where all former glory is certain to be reconfirmed upon them with regal aplomb…by Barack Obama.

Now, back to that chop chop chop.

Three weeks before the Iowa caucuses is a bad time to launch a smear campaign which infers the candidate is queen and media no more than droning vassals expected to knock Lancelot from his horse. Established news outlets, so long the enablers of Clinton and Co.'s underhanded game plan seem to have coalesced around the opinion that job #1 is to survive the current topsy-turvy circus of old media versus new. Perhaps, the press has decided, it isn't worth indenturing oneself to a second, nastier Bubba presidency and all of the career deciding Clintonian manipulations and threats which promise to go along with it.

No surprise then that suddenly Hillary can't stoke up the dirt onto her opponents without the dirt itself becoming the story. This was demonstrated yesterday when we learned that the campaign in New Hampshire had shaken its head in shame at the Senator’s past drug use, even though Mr. Obama fully admits to inhaling. Only a few days previous, Andrew Young's recent reference to Obama's reputed womanizing was reported to have came across as a humorless Bill Clinton joke, a feat which previously wasn't thought possible. Seeing Hillary's numbers plummet as a direct result of actual reportage must create a Cialis glow in shrinking newsrooms throughout the land, even though the MSM is merely passing along unwhored the same stuff the conservative blogosphere has been putting out there since Gosh knows when, ...since pre-FreeRepublic I suppose, if it's possible to peer that far back in the mist.

So, what does this have to do with Christ (I hear you wonder, wonder..)? With Bill Clinton's wife out of the race early, a social issues conservative such as Mike Huckabee has a real chance of beating a first term Senator from Illinois with no foreign policy experience in a time of war. Six months ago digital theophobes openly celebrated Mr. Guiliani’s seeming coup and the banishment of the Religious Right from the GOP. We're far from the Promised Land, but as of this writing there's a real possibility of a Bush 3.

Whether or not a President Huckabee or Romney would unwaveringly support social conservative benchmarks remains to be seen, although I suspect the answer would be no based upon their past non-performance as fiscal conservatives (which is why I find it difficult to get enthusiastic about either candidate). We may however be able to trust these two with the courts. If conservatives can retain the privilege of appointing judges for a successive pseudo-conservative administration there's a chance Christians may retain the liberty to occasionally reveal themselves as hypocrites in schools and city council chambers across the land, which would be a good thing. Making public fools of themselves is the God-granted right of every person of faith, a ruler against which all others liberties are measured.

Jeanne Assam, Honorary Guardian Angel

Jeanne Assam, Christian hero of New Life Church in Colorado.

Security Guard Prayed For Divine Guidance Before Shooting Gunman - ABCNews

A Neverborn cartoon honoring New Life Church parishoner and security guard Jeanne Assam, who saved countless lives as a result of the brave and unfaltering decisions she made this past Sunday in Colorado.

This story also has three Minnesota principles comprising of two victims and one hero. Twenty-six year old Tiffany Johnson of Chisholm, Minnesota was shot and killed at the Youth With a Mission center in Arvada; Burnsville resident Charles Blanch suffered multiple shots to his leg at the same location. Jeanne Assam is a former Minneapolis policewoman who was fired for what the MPD refers to as a 'truthfullness' issue, having to do with words she may or may not have said on a city bus. Think about that next time you're riding Metro.

Colorado Christian Shootings

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Fatal church shootings may be linked -RockyMountainNews

Four die (including the gunman) and an additional six are wounded in two separate attacks Sunday against Christians in Colorado.

Thanks to Karen at Karen's Korner for the posting the above to her Police confirm megachurch shooter is Matthew Murray, 24 post.

Commentator beenthere has kind words for faithmouse at Michelle Malkin.

A thread at Igbgaming displays the Christmas LOL Cat cartoon from last year.

Hillary Chipmunk makes her way onto a thread at qubetv.

Thanks to Christine for including faithmouse on her new MySpace WorldIMHO.

Hollie-Is-Right's LiveJournal is just one of the sites showing the most recent ACLU Ferret cartoon via Stop The ACLU's feed.

Kaiserfam's StumbleUpon features the regularly updating toon in his thumb's up for our Catacombers affiliate.