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Whodunit

The Aug. 25 Dry Bones cartoon about the plane “crash,” in which Yevgeny Prigozhin is said to have died.

Dry Bones cartoon Whodunit
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

Today’s cartoon only “works” if you remember the weird news about the Wagner Group anti-Putin march, which ended with the “yes he’s alive” versus “no he isn’t” debate.

To get a laugh out of you also requires that you heard the news about the plane “crash” and reacted cynically with the assumption that Putin was responsible.

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death will probably remain forever a whodunit puzzle alongside the many other assassinations, about which we continue to offer theories.

At the very least we know that he did not commit suicide.

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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