Cartoons a Day Late

As I was thinking about the Everyone Draw Mohammed Day, I thought about what would qualify as an image of Mohammed. Would it be a drawing of his face. What if he were unrecognizably far away or just part of his body was illustrated. Would that count as blasphemy? What if he was in an image, but hidden? What if there were no image, but I just said he was there. That got me thinking about my first drawing, which I call “Mohammed in a Blizzard.”


Going down this path led me to some of those little drawings that are kind of optical illusion doodles—they look like one thing, but can be seen in another way. Is it blasphemy to draw Mohammed as a geometrical shape? I call this “Mohammed Frying an Egg.”


In a like vein, I can draw just his hands and feet in “Looking Out a Window at Mohammed Climbing a Tree.”


None of my illustrations are meant to picture Mohammed in a negative light. In fact, my last illustration is a triumphant image of conquest. This is a stick man image of Mohammed in a drawing I call, “Mohammed at the Top of Mount Everest.”