I just wanted to see if you were awake. Yeah, I did a bunch of condom cartoons. I think it was for National Lampoon, when they had a call-out for…
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This is a typical New Yorker cartoon about Hollywood. Not that this is really Hollywood, of course, but it’s what NEW YORK thinks Hollywood is. You got your palm trees,…
For Illustration Friday: cocoon. I’ve done a few cartoons about butterflies not going back to the cocoon, moving on, and sadly, in this case, living only one day. You did…
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Yeah, I wrote about Navy sonar killing whales over on my political cartoon site. MFA sonars send intense pulses of noise through the water that can disrupt or injure marine…
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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…
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 been a big part of my life this last year, working for Slate, so these hens have that on their mind, too.
I’ve been thinking recently about New Yorker cartoons vs Editorial cartoons – which I’m spending most of my time doing? now. New Yorker cartoons are easy, so easy that anyone can do it, and they can and do, with the little caption contests. I haven’t looked at the contests in years, but there are many clever entries, I’m sure.
“But I can’t draw,” they sigh. That’s what she said.
That’s what I said. I wanted to write them, not draw them, but I sent ideas to a couple of New Yorker guys, they said they didn’t buy gags, and I gave up on just writing right away. I’d have to learn to draw. Sigh.
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.…
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