The Burning of Our Fields and Trees

The burning of our precious trees by the incendiary kites of Gaza has hit us deeply and left us emotionally drained.

With the growing isolation of Israel, the explosion of antisemitism, the Gazan attacks on our trees, and the world's apathy, I've decided to publish an Annotated Edition of my original graphic novel "Trees, The Green Testament". It's the story of Israel and World History as told by the Trees!! Get yours at http://amazon.com/author/kirschen or order a copy directly from me for me to autograph and for my LSW (Long Suffering Wife) to mail to you from our home in Israel http://store.drybones.com/

It makes a wonderful gift and comes with our love and best wishes in this time of terrible stress and wonderful prophesied miracles to come.

Get your copy now!

Approaching 80 Years Old

Trees, The Green Testament is a Graphic Novel that I wrote and drew back in 1993.

I was shocked when the front page of the Wall Street Journal reported that my book was being accepted by American Christians as a work of prophecy. Ultra-Orthodox Jews declared that it had actually been written by the reincarnated soul of a long-dead Jewish sage!? I immediately withdrew all support for the book! I was a political cartoonist and did not want to be seen as some kind of religious nut-case!

But the years have slipped by, I'm about to celebrate my 80th birthday (March 8) and I want to share the incredible "Trees" experience with my friends and fans. so I wrote a free book in which you can read the story of how I came to write Trees, The Green Testament
And with the growing isolation of Israel, the explosion of antisemitism, the street attacks on European Jews, and the world's apathy to the genocide of Christians in Africa and the Middle East, I've also decided to publish an Annotated Edition of the original book. The story of Israel and World History as told by the Trees!! Get yours at http://amazon.com/author/kirschen or order a copy directly from me for me to autograph and for my LSW (Long Suffering Wife) to mail to you from our home in Israel http://store.drybones.com/

It makes a wonderful gift and comes with my love and best wishes in this time of wonderful miracles and terrible stress.

Fathers' Day (and Beyond)

In honor of Fathers' Day,
consider the gift of Jewish Continuity,
the Dry Bones Passover Haggadah.

Order now from Amazon!

Snapshot from GA

Bones and the LSW

I thought you might like to see a snapshot of me and the LSW (Long Suffering Wife) taken at our Dry Bones Haggadahs booth at the "GA" convention in Jerusalem last week. * * * Go to store.drybones.com to peek inside the Haggadah, find out why the Haggadahs come in "plain brown boxes", and maybe decide to order a box of Haggadahs for you and yours (while supplies last, and don't say we didn't warn you).

Shipping the Haggadahs

The Haggadahs in our Livingroom

If you ordered copies of the Dry Bones Haggadah, they're now in the mail or about to be. * * * We're not on Amazon. This is a personal outreach from us to friends and fans and those they love. The LSW (Long Suffering Wife) and I are now boxing up and shipping out the hot off the press, first edition copies of our gorgeous Dry Bones Passover Haggadahs. Our inventory is warehoused in our livingroom, and we're shlepping the books to mail from our local Post Office. * * * Go to store.drybones.com to peek inside the Haggadah, find out why the Haggadahs come in "plain brown boxes", and maybe decide to order a box of Haggadahs for you and yours (while supplies last, and don't say we didn't warn you).

03 - the Blackout

Thursday, October 31, (continued)

"What else could possibly go wrong? We were soon to find out."

 -the closing entry in previous Diary Episode 02

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New Print Run!
Our printer agrees to do a new print run with careful quality control!  But we'll get the Haggadahs just hours before the opening of the  General Assembly of the Jewish Federations  where we've taken a Dry Bones Haggadahs booth to launch our "campaign to make our Haggadah THE Haggadah for 2014 and generations to come".  

Back to Work!
 as explained previously, Kim, our talented book designer and cover artist had come to visit so we could work on designing the Dry Bones Haggadah "roll up" standing sign for our booth at the  GA. ...and so we settled down to do just that. We've already done a large cartoon backdrop for the booth which shows Mr. Shuldig and a Haggadah. It is wider than it is tall. The "roll up" is taller than it is wide. I'll have to redraw the picture so that it is vertical. Simple.


The Blessing:
In Israel rain is a blessing. The land, after our long hot summers yearns for the refreshing water of our rainy season. And so, suddenly the skies opened and thunderstorms broke out. Unfortunately the brief torrewntial downpour took out the electricity in our neighborhood. Kim's computer could continue on battery power but how could I draw in the pitch blackness of the total darkness? By the way, pitch blackness in contemporary Hebrew is "Egyptian Darkness" pronounced Hoshech Mitzrayim  ( referring to the Passover plague that the Egyptians were hit with). Hmmm.

And So:The LSW held a flashlight while I drew the line drawing to scan which Kim could then color on her Mac. So far, so good, but then, having drawn the cartoon, we realized that without electricity the scanner wouldn't scan! Kim came up with the answer. I held the flashlight to light my drawing, while she shot the cartoon with her iphone and then emailed it to herself, and opened it on her Mac.

The LSW snapped a photo of Kim and me. Her flash has illuminated the total darkness. Kim is on the left facing the bright screen of her laptop Mac: I am to her right on a couch, behind one of the many many candles  that the LSW had set out. One is tiny and on the floor (bottom right, next to chair leg) a third is above and behind that.

Below is the drawn-in-the-dark "roll up" sign after Kim's coloring. Not bad.

* * * This is Haggadah Diary Episode 03 Click for Haggadah Diary Episode 02 Click for Haggadah Diary Episode 01

To Be Continued . . .

You can get your set of haggadahs (in plain brown boxes) in one of two ways. One, online at the http://store.drybones.com and two, at our booth at the upcoming General Assembly of the Jewish Federations to be held in Jerusalem on Nov 10-11.

the Haggadah for 2014

I and the LSW (Long Suffering Wife) have spent the last year on the creation of a very special haggadah that I believe can deliver the gift of Jewish Continuity and the Joy of being Jewish. Our goal is to make this THE haggadah for 2014 and for generations to come. It has, at last, been fully checked and proofread. The First Edition of the Dry Bones Passover Haggadah is about to go to press in Jerusalem.

Meanwhile the ebook (pdf) is ready. If you were a Kickstarter Haggadah Funder you'll be getting your Digital Haggadah within a few days.
Others can check it out at www.store.drybones.com

Let's make this THE Haggadah for 2014!

Our Job

I really and deeply believe that it is "our job", keeping our history and peoplehood alive for the next generations and for generations to come to come. That's why I've spent the last year on the creation of a very special haggadah that I believe can deliver the gift of Jewish Continuity. You can check it out at a "Mom & Pop store" we've set up online. I'm the Pop and the Mom is the LSW (Long Suffering Wife).

store.drybones.com