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!

674-d

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

674-c

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

674-b

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

674-a

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!

673-d

We have borrowed a mount from the Baburnama!

673-c

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

673-b

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

673-a

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!

672-d

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

672-c

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

672-b

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

672-a

Drunk am I through You!!!
مستِ تو ام