A colleague once said early in my career, after seeing an unusually cut-and-pasted original, "Greenberg doesn't draw cartoons, he just assembles them." Here in the Photoshop era, there's no cut-and-paste work, but sometimes for the sake of expediency I'll need to do a cartoon in components. Here are the ink lines as scanned in:



I made the decision to do the piles and signs separately, so that I could make gritty piles without messing up the signs. And because Bush, Abbas and Olmert were going to be small, I drew them slightly larger so that I could do the detail of their faces, then shrink them a bit.