I just realized I never put a link up to this article, written about me and my good man and fellow cartoonist Michael Crawford. I guess I just figured the New York Times was coverage enough! Anyway, here it is: Where Punchlines Pay The Rent. And no, there’s no audio of me playing the banjo badly! Phew!
I re-post this every year for Father’s Day. Click here!
I’ve added lots of new items to my newyorkette storefront at cafepress.com! Check it out. Animals from my heifer.org giveaway repertoire, and new items like aprons and travel mugs…
It’s June, which means wedding season. Here’s my cartoon from last week’s The New Yorker, on the subject of proposals.
Go see it, it was GREAT! Here’s some drawings I did in the dark from the seat that was so kindly given to me by a friend who couldn’t make it.
Fort Tryon Park:
This is the blizzard view of the GW Bridge.
UPDATE: Fort Tryon Park, at night.
Hey, lady, there’s three giant dames standing behind you trying to give you sound advice, but you’re feeling so sorry for yourself that you’re going to settle for Bacchus on the rebound.
But seriously, if you can make it to the Met for “Ariadne auf Naxos,” by all means go see it. It’s a beauty. And Kathleen Kim’s Zerbinetta gives a way better performance than Nina Stimm’s Ariadne. She’ll make you laugh, just like she promised, and Ariadne will put you to sleep a little (just like Zerbinetta promised, too). I very much disagree with the Times’ review, particularly on the subject of Kathleen Kim and Sarah Connolly, who as far as I could hear, both outshone Nina Stimm that night. I wonder if my ears aren’t cultivated enough anymore from not hearing enough opera lately to appreciate Stimm. And if so, I don’t see what’s wrong with it. Maybe opera singers should appeal to less cultivated ears a little more.
It was gone by midday. It must have had a sell by date like the fresh organic chicken I ordered from Fresh Direct. The one that said sell by [the day I received it].
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According to my calendar, it’s Immaculate Conception Day. Albertus Magnus makes for some interesting reading on the subject of how Immaculate Conception is possible, if you can manage the Latin. And if you can, have fun! I might add that the Immaculate Conception was conceived well after it supposedly happened, and that the word for “maiden” in Ancient Greek (in which language the first Bibles were written), was usually the same word as the word for “virgin.” The idea being that a maiden was usually a virgin, because she was unmarried. That’s all I’m gonna say about it. Except that the very first Christians were not so quick to judge and unwed mother as some of the latter day ones.
Another way we cartoonists make money is by being paid to draw at high end events where a New Yorker cartoonist is just the thing. I got a reputation for making people look good, so I hardly ever get to just draw cartoons at these events. People love having their portraits drawn, even by bad portrait artists, isn’t that funny? It’s a bit like having their palm read, irresistible, even if it’s obviously a scam. And it’s fun, anyway. How many artists get interesting people to sit for them for free, and even get paid to draw? This is one of the portraits I was most proud of, from an event the other day. This guy was a dream to draw—great face, great style.
I put this up on my salon blog. Everybody’s doing blogs on these net magazines, so why not me?
Click on the image to go to The New Yorker.
(Or if by any chance you’d like to buy it (or a print of it), click here instead.)
This is my cartoon in this week’s “style issue” of The New Yorker! Click on it to go to the online magazine, and see it and others by my esteemed colleagues.
On the Huffington Post:
On Salon.com:
Based on a true story. This happened to me about every ten feet when I lived on 156th Street and Broadway. But it also happened in many other locations around the city, and, I have it on good authority, to many other women!
To see this on the Huffington Post’s site, click here.
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My week began on the subject of death. Let’s hope it ends in something more cheerful, like the successful neutering of our dog! We’ve been thinking about replacing his nuts with some tiny wind chimes.
Anyway, here are this week’s Huffington Posts, exceptionally there are two, due to Ted Kennedy’s demise. See what I (and quite a lot of commenters) think of death panels by clicking on the image below.
And see what I think of Ted Kennedy, by clicking on the image below. Full disclosure: I’m 44, and the first time I heard about Ted Kennedy, it was for Chappaquiddick. So, for my generation, his life began with that moment, and the rest of his life has been about atoning for it. I’d say he did a good job, and that it diminishes his efforts if you forget that he was actually redeeming himself in the world’s eyes nonstop, and inexhaustibly. Plus, you can’t have one Ted Kennedy without the other Ted Kennedy.
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