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Why Mr. Shuldig always wears orange and blue ...

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

Years ago, Israel was split over the withdrawal from Gaza. There were large public demonstrations, for and against. One side used orange as its color. The other wore and marched under a blue banner.

I so strongly believed (and still do) in remaining objective, that since that time and as a reminder to myself, my alter ego Mr. Shuldig always wears orange and blue!

Political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., made aliyah to Israel in 1971 and began drawing “Dry Bones” in January 1973. The internationally syndicated, award-winning cartoons ran in The Jerusalem Post for 50 years. They were reprinted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and other mainstream media publications. The “Dry Bones” story has been covered by CBS, CNN and Forbes, among other outlets. He was a member of America’s National Cartoonists Society and the Israeli Cartoonists Society. Kirschen died at 87 on April 14, 2025.
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