Remembering 'Dry Bones’ cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen, who sketched Israeli feats and foibles for 50 years - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Remembering 'Dry Bones’ cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen, who sketched Israeli feats and foibles for 50 years - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Yaakov Kirschen’s first cartoon was published in the Jerusalem Post on Jan. 1, 1973. The comic, called “Dry Bones,” starred a Ziggy-like character named Shuldig, a bald and bristly everyman, and his dog Doobie. I first read Dry Bones in Hebrew school, when it served as an American Jewish teen’s introduction to the mild kvetching and occasionally pointed political musings of an average “Anglo” Israeli — that is, an immigrant from an English-speak…