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Dry Bones (comic strip)
Dry Bones is an English-language Israeli political cartoon strip by Yaakov Kirschen that was published by The Jerusalem Post from 1973 until 2023, and then by the Jewish News Syndicate from 2023 until Kirschen's death in 2025. Dry Bones was syndicated in North America by Cagle Cartoons.
Dry Bones was syndicated to Jewish community newspapers around the world and has been reprinted and quoted by The New York Times, Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, CBS, the AP and Forbes. It offered a pictorial commentary on current events in Israel and the Jewish world.
The name of the comic strip refers to the vision of the Valley of Dry Bones in the Book of Ezekiel (37:1–14). The main character of the cartoon is Shuldig – Yiddish for guilty/to blame.
Yaakov Kirschen was born as Jerry Kirschen in Brooklyn, New York City, in 1938.
While studying art at Queens College, his first cartoons were published in Cracked magazine in 1960. After graduating in 1961, he landed a job drawing greeting cards for Norcross, but was soon fired for "jocular" behavior. Later, he worked for a company that produced self-instructional training courses for computer companies including NCR and IBM; but he continued freelancing as a cartoonist for magazines like Playboy.
In 1971, he moved to Israel with his wife and three children, and changed his name to Yaakov. He had hoped to work in computers, he once told the New York Times, but discovered that "what this country really needed was cartoons." He soon approached the Jerusalem Post with a strip inspired by the work of Jules Feiffer. The Post snapped it up, and Dry Bones debuted in 1973. The strip quickly became a hit.
A notable cartoon in 1979 lampooned U.S. President Jimmy Carter's demand that Israel withdraw from "occupied territory", by proposing that America return its own "occupied territories" to Mexicans and Native Americans. Carter responded to Kirschen with a note saying his satirical plan "would make my job much easier!"
In 1980, the New York Times began international syndication of a new strip from Kirschen, called Adam An', starring Adam, Eve, and the snake in the Garden of Eden. It ran until 1982.
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Dry Bones (comic strip)
Dry Bones is an English-language Israeli political cartoon strip by Yaakov Kirschen that was published by The Jerusalem Post from 1973 until 2023, and then by the Jewish News Syndicate from 2023 until Kirschen's death in 2025. Dry Bones was syndicated in North America by Cagle Cartoons.
Dry Bones was syndicated to Jewish community newspapers around the world and has been reprinted and quoted by The New York Times, Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, CBS, the AP and Forbes. It offered a pictorial commentary on current events in Israel and the Jewish world.
The name of the comic strip refers to the vision of the Valley of Dry Bones in the Book of Ezekiel (37:1–14). The main character of the cartoon is Shuldig – Yiddish for guilty/to blame.
Yaakov Kirschen was born as Jerry Kirschen in Brooklyn, New York City, in 1938.
While studying art at Queens College, his first cartoons were published in Cracked magazine in 1960. After graduating in 1961, he landed a job drawing greeting cards for Norcross, but was soon fired for "jocular" behavior. Later, he worked for a company that produced self-instructional training courses for computer companies including NCR and IBM; but he continued freelancing as a cartoonist for magazines like Playboy.
In 1971, he moved to Israel with his wife and three children, and changed his name to Yaakov. He had hoped to work in computers, he once told the New York Times, but discovered that "what this country really needed was cartoons." He soon approached the Jerusalem Post with a strip inspired by the work of Jules Feiffer. The Post snapped it up, and Dry Bones debuted in 1973. The strip quickly became a hit.
A notable cartoon in 1979 lampooned U.S. President Jimmy Carter's demand that Israel withdraw from "occupied territory", by proposing that America return its own "occupied territories" to Mexicans and Native Americans. Carter responded to Kirschen with a note saying his satirical plan "would make my job much easier!"
In 1980, the New York Times began international syndication of a new strip from Kirschen, called Adam An', starring Adam, Eve, and the snake in the Garden of Eden. It ran until 1982.