For Illustration Friday, subject: Perspective. When I first started cartooning I realized that I knew nothing about perspective. I looked at other cartoonists' work and was amazed at how they had  several things in the drawing, all the proper size! I bought (easy) books, asked people, but most of all I practiced, and studied how other cartoonists ...

Oops, did I spoil the cartoon? For Illustration Friday: propagate is the challenge. And chickens do that. This is an easy idea to tinker with, if you're good with words. The ending to Which came first, could be anything, and I think I've come up with half a dozen gags over the years. But politics has ...

they RENEWED them. Or they used to. When they read them hardcopy. I drew this in my minimal phase. One of my favorite cartoonists in the New Yorker was Ross. Herbert Ross? Don't know, he only signed his last name. When Bob Mankoff became editor, this guy was kicked out. (Tell me, has the New Yorker ...

Don't lies involve prevarication, entanglements, and just plain trouble? Especially when you lie about the food! Fortunately for this excellent waiter (who reminds me somewhat of the excellent and rather erotic waiter I had recently at Mimi's - yeah, I know, Mimi's?!) - he tells the truth! From my Daily Special restaurant cartoon series - especially for ...

Time for a new cartoon! Actually, although the color is new, this is quite  old - one of the first cartoons I ever did, and part of a series I did with coffins. I was surprised, death is a fairly common topic with cartoonists - I heard Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of the New Yorker, ...

For Illustration Friday: subject is frozen. Well, it would have been understandable, and all too easy to do ice cream for this subject. But it's almost Halloween! And this is a very very cold...drink. You know what the waiter is about to say, right? Cold as a witch's toes in a brass bottle. Isn't that how it ...