depicting Benjamin Netanyahu as a guide dog leading Donald Trump (portrayed as a blind man) sparked controversy over perceived antisemitism, Kirschen criticized the cartoon, which he believed was using both anti-semitic tropes and a lack of creativity. Kirschen has criticized the general field of political cartooning for condoning antisemitism. In an interview he gave the example of a cartoon by Dave Brown depicting Ariel Sharon as eating babies, which won several awards. Kirschen says his cartoons are designed to make people laugh, which makes them drop their guard and see things the way he does. In an interview, he defined his objective as a cartoonist as an attempt to "seduce rather than to offend." Kirschen is opposed to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and has criticized it in his cartoons. In 2015, he founded a virtual campus named the Dry Bones Academy of Cartoon Advocacy and Activism. Awards Kirschen won the Israeli Museum of Caricature and Comics' Golden Pencil Award for his work. Books Trees, the Green Testament (1993) The Dry Bones Haggadah (2016) Young and Innocent: The Way We Were (2017) References External links Dry Bones homepage Dry Bones blog The Dry Bones Project Dry Bones comic strip 1973 comics debuts American comic strips Israeli comic strips Gag-a-day comics Bonei Zion Prize recipients Satirical comics Comics about politics