Tail the Prophet

We'll all be following the prophet this weekend. If you haven't already, don't forget to print a copy of the Ward Cartoonist Conference Packet.

Babel's Building Material

Sadly, were about nine months too late in our Come, Follow Me study for this one (or, if you're an optimist, three years and three months too early).

Your October 2026 General Conference Activity Packet

Isaiah, man. Am I right?

General Conference is just around the corner. Time to download and print your Ward Cartoonist General Conference Activity Packet! Thanks to my kind collaborators, Gaby Herrera and Dani Queiroz de Souza, the packet is also available in Spanish and Portuguese. These two incredible ladies have been translating the packets for over a decade!

If the conference packet isn't enough to sate your appetite for Church-themed activities to entertain your young (or young at heart), Let me direct you to an assortment of my books (sadly, none of them will help you understand Isaiah):

• Doctrine and Covenants Come, Follow Me Activity Book
• The Book of Mormon Come, Follow Me Activity Book
• The New Testament Come, Follow Me Activity Book
• The Old Testament Come, Follow Me Activity Book
• Super Sunday Activity Book
• Scripture Power Activity Book
• Now That I Am Baptized: A Puzzle Book for LDS Kids

For those of you uninterested in print, check out my apps (iOS only, sorry!). Your kids will love LDS Scripture Heroes or Book of Mormon Adventure available at the Apple App Store.

Finally, I should mention Mission Daze, my collection of nearly 500 comic strips tracking a missionary from mission call to homecoming. It's a great gift for any missionary.

25-Minute Lessons Redux

You might remember poor Brother Jones and his Aaronic Presthood class from a month ago. They're back.

Church Nightmare

Maybe I should have saved this one for October.

Left Hand/Right Hand

At least she took something from scripture study.

Ammon's Mission Call

This might not be exactly how it went down.

Latter-day Saint Gameshow

We've been doing two-hour church for over seven years and yet I'd guess most of us wouldn't be able to tell what class we're holding from one Sunday to the next.

(By the way, the gameshow host was inspired by this guy.)

25-Minute Lessons

Are you guys ready for September? One hour sacrament meeting and then two 25-minute classes crammed into the next hour. Maybe practicing a few weeks in August isn't a bad idea.

Christians to the Lions

This is as close to a political cartoon as you're going to get on this website--and it is only a couple of months late! In early June the Department of Defense revised the number of religious affiliations it recognizes from over 200 to 31. When the Department first presented its revised list, it failed to list the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a Christian faith. This caused enough of an uproar that the Department of Defense revised its list again, this time removing the "Christian" designation altogether (rather than including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in that designation). 

I have got so many thoughts on this story, but nobody's coming to this website to hear the political rantings of a cartoonist. So I'll just end with this: beware anyone who argues that the United States should be a "Christian" nation because chances are the person making that argument doesn't view you as a Christian at all.

Pioneer Travel Time

It really is a shame the pioneers didn't have a handful of magical reindeer they could have hitched up their wagons to. Just eight of those guys* could have delivered dozens of wagons to the Salt Lake Valley in minutes (and just imagine everything the Saints could have brought if they'd also somehow managed to secure Santa's magic bag).

*Nine if there's fog.

Pioneer Trek by Sea

I'm shocked no one has thought of this yet. Youth Pioneer Trek participation would be through the roof!

Two hundred thirty-nine Saints left New York harbor in February 1846 and travelled around Cape Horn on the sailing ship Brooklyn finally arriving in San Francisco on July 31, 1846. The company of Saints joined the larger population of Latter-day Saints in Utah in 1848. 

Mountain of the Lord

July is the time of year where we make fun of our pioneer ancestors (and the youth cosplaying as them) on this website! The mountain of the Lord has got to be a whole lot less appealing when your pushing or pulling a heavy handcart up it.

Eternal Family or Eternal Road Trip

July is (of course) pioneer gags her on this webpage. The pioneer gags start next week. In the meantime let's celebrate the unique delight that is the family road trip. Believe me, I've felt like this before.

Farewell Season

Despite being discouraged in the Church's handbook for 20+ years, missionary open houses are very much a thing where we live. It might be the most openly flaunted broken rule in the Church (my family isn't innocent either).

That said, we are definitely in mission farewell season now.

Crying Repentance

Today's gag is featured in the June 2026 issue of the For the Strength of Youth magazine.

Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam

Since the Primary would have you believe that you're only wanted for a Sunbeam until the January of your 4th year, it's not surprising that this guy would struggle with some unresolved trauma.

The Brother of Jared's Bright Idea

The world wasn't ready...

Graduation Season

I have yet to be to a graduation ceremony that didn't feel like it was going to last for eternity. This one literally might.

Galactus

Thanks to everyone who participated in our first ever Ward Cartoonist caption contest. It was so much fun, we are definitely doing it again!

Here's the annotation of all my co-creators:

• Do you have... (greghumphreys1986)
• The power of the... (Klinton)
• Well OK but... (Shawn Lindseth)
• Where do planets... (bigben126)
• Take me to... (Tom Brand)
• Wait...you're saying... (Brett Bates)
• For those of you... (jon.freestone)
• Define large in... (Anonymous)
• Tell me more... (joelvandegraaff)
• Turns out the one... (Janeal Lynn Shippen)
• Wait, does this.../Every superhero.../Gigantor went looking... (jena_vdg)

It was so fun to see submissions from former mission companions, a fellow cartoonist, another fellow cartoonist's padawan, and a couple of my siblings (even if one of them didn't recognize who Galactus is). If I had to pick one, I would have gone with Brett Bates' submission, although jon.freestone's made me literally laugh out loud.

Okay, that's it for the summer movie preview week. Back to the regular schedule Monday.