Frog & Peppers (Art Club 11)

Dogs Bark... Frogs Move On! 675-B/W

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Woof! Woof!

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...If the bell can ring any moment?
مرا در منزل جانان چه امن عیش چون هر دم
جرس فریاد می‌دارد که بربندید محمل‌ها

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How can I rest by my Lover...

Happy 4th of July!

To All our American and Americanophile Friends, Happy 4th of July with this all-time favorite song!
Regular Frogs resume Monday :-)

Ramadan Mubarak! Ramzan Mubarak!! Ramazan Mubarak!!!

It does not matter if you spell it Ramadan, Ramzan or Ramazan: this Muslim holy month has just begun.

As for the exact date, we don't rely on an improbable moon-sighting (although we admit we like the idea, as long as it is done with naked eyes, not with binoculars or similar items) but follow the beautiful Saudi Aramco calendar which gives June 18th as the first Fasting Day.

We wish a Happy Ramadan to everybody: to those who understand the fasting as a physical obligation as well as to those who focus mainly on its spiritual aspect.

Our strip will pause for two weeks. Please come back on July, Monday the 6th.

May the Frogs be with you!

Good Fasting! 674-B/W

Do you have pencils? Please, colour the Froggies!

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Oh well, Ramadan is here: let's fast from worry and fear!

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I am worried for him: Shaykhs tend to become sticky.
This is true...

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Hee hee hee my Zebrafriend has become a Shaykh...
It is good for the Zebrettes: devotion will lend their art wings...

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Look at them! They follow Zubin closer than his shadow...

Cartoon Club 3 (Art Club 10)

Here we are, back to black paper (Canson, 240 g/m - 145 lbs), sketching Mickey from *Walt Disney's World of Fantasy* by Adrian Bailey. We bought this book in New York City, year 1989. At that time there were vendors of books all around the streets of Manhattan.

Zebrahoy! 673-B/W

Do you have pencils? Please, colour the Froggies!

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We have borrowed a mount from the Baburnama!

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Waw! That is fun! Although it might be too long a swim for little zebras!?!
Swim? Oh no...

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Oh! Are you going too? Do you sing?
Not really. I am chaperoning a whole choir of Zebrettes...

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I love sufi poetry with a jazzy flavour!
Me too! I can't wait for the full moon's karaoke at Castel Sufiano...

Cartoon Club 2 (Art Club 9)

Funny Folks sketched from *The Art of the Princess and the Frog* (right) and *Big Book of Cartooning* (left) on Strathmore Toned Gray sketch paper.

"Drunk Through You" (Jazzy Ansari) 672-B/W

Zubin sings a quatrain of Kwaja Abdallah Ansari, the Sage of Herat.
Do you have pencils? Please, colour the Froggies!

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Drunk I am through you!
Freed from wine and cup!!
Prey, your prey am I!!!
Freed from trap and bait!
You I seek in Kaba and Bot-khane!!
From these freed am I except for You!!!
مستِ تو ام از بادہ و جام آزادم
صیدِ تو ام از دانہ و دام آزادم
مقصودِ من از کعبہ و بتخانہ تویی
ورنہ من از ایں هر دو مقام آزادم
mast-e taw am az bade-ho jam azadam
sayd-e taw am az dane-ho dam azadam
maqsud-e man az ka'be-ho botkhana taw-i
var na man azeen har daw maqam azadam

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Your prey am I freed from trap and bait. You I seek in Kaba and Bot-khane (Idol temple). From these...
صیدِ تو ام از دانہ و دام آزادم
مقصودِ من از کعبہ و بتخانہ تویی
ورنہ من از ایں هر دو مقام

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Freed from wine and cup!!!
از بادہ و جام آزادم

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Drunk am I through You!!!
مستِ تو ام

Watercolor 1 (Art Club 8)

This is a 10x10 cm (4x4 inches) watercolour of the Universel Murad Hassil, a Sufi Temple in Katwijk-aan-Zee, the Netherlands.

Folk Tales! 671-B/W

Do you have pencils? Please, colour the Froggies!

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Yet, for every frog there is a prince!

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And hungry wolves hiding in the woods...

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Gingerbread houses, flying carpets, magic lamps...

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Fairy tales are full of enchantment...

Cartoon Club 1 (Art Club 7)

Sketches of Hands and Horses from old *How to...* American books. Highly recommended for lifting up one's spirit! :-) If you want just one, try this.

Choices 670-B/W

Don't you think this Strip needs some colours?

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I opt for fairy tales!

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Whatever helps the soul to remember its home, is good...

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Devotion to a holy man or place...

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Music: yes! Or art, or poetry...

Sketch from a Photo (Art Club 6)

Himmat (همت) / Desire 669-B/W

Don't you think this Strip needs some colours?
The word "Himmat" appears in five verses in the Koran. To translate in Christian terms what Himmat is, read Matthew 13:45-46.

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What turns me on is Jazz!

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Yet above sobriety and inebriety I am...
Click here to the Persian lines of Sheikh Ghouri and Prince Sanjar's story (from Attar's *The Conference of the Birds*).

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Drugs bloom and wither...

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Prohibitions come and go...

Quick Sketches (Art Club 5)

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In case anyone is tired of discussing about the prohibition of alcohol in Islam, click here to a new topic for ranting among friends (on Facebook and elsewhere) ;-).
Besides... don't you think this Strip needs some colours?

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Would the French truly mind Air France serving hemp on its flights?!?

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Hee hee! Why should Qatar Airways not have an eye for business? Besides...

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Hmm... I think he is a joker mocking his secular French friends who call the Qatari hypocrites for serving wine...

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This Saki (Barman) is either a joker or a literalist...

Study of Frogs (Art Club 4)

Qatar Rays 667-B/W

Cheers! Click here to the related article.
Don't you think this Strip needs some colours?