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My quirky, haunting story about a unique kind of friendship between a man and some birds.
(click on the drawing, for the story!)

On a mug! And there’s still time to get it with standard shipping by December 24th! Only available through my cafepress shop, here.

Based on a true story.

My last article in thehairpin.com is about my life with Macs and men, from the first Mac I ever bought back in 1991. RIP Steve Jobs. Read it, here.

A written and illustrated piece of mine, called “The Evolution of Ape-Face Johnson,” the narrated slideshow version of which I performed at The Rejection Show a few years ago, appeared in The Hairpin this week. I love The Hairpin. If you don’t know it, please get to know it. Especially if you are a girl or woman. Or a good man.

(please click on the cartoon to get the larger version and more info)

But are they like the Mets? That’s the question.

Due credit must be given to this painting for inspiring the parents.

Also, this Oscarina also appears at The Huffington Post today, here.

Well, in NYkette’s news, we had a caption contest at The New Yorker, and you can still vote on your favorite caption, here.

And we’ve had a few Oscarina’s in the Huffington Post! I try to make sure there’s on there every Monday. I call it “Political Monday at Oscarina.”

This one is about the middle class worker’s duty to strike:

I’ll always think of this as Roy G. Biv day, you know why? Of course you do, if you ever had to memorize the colors of the rainbow in the right order: Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet—ROYGBIV, or, Roy G. Biv, as we art students say to ourselves when we try to remember. Nice guy, Roy.

Congratulations to New York, where we can all be gay in every sense of the word now, as equally as anyone. Boo to you Ruben Diaz, but as this is a democracy, we have to uphold your right to dissent from common sense if you must. Do everything else right, and I’ll be okay with you. But you better do everything else right, bud.

I’ll have to repost this Oscarina (as seen on the Huffington Post recently) in honor of it all. Blow it out your asses, conservatives! (click on the image if you need it bigger).

Oscarina’s getting more and more “likes”, and has appeared a few times on the Huffington Post’s comedy site, notably today, regarding the marriage equality struggle in NY.

Also in the news, I’ve created a page on Facebook, for those for whom newyorkette is not enough!  Please feel free to go there and “like” away. I need at least 25 likers before I can get a username, they say.

I haven’t been submitting much to The New Yorker due to working on more personal stuff, but I’m getting back in the groove, and you will be seeing me there again soon, if they haven’t given up on me in disgust, thinking I just got lazy.

Meanwhile, here’s the lastest Oscarina, for your entertainment. Click on the image to open a larger one if you can’t read the text.:

Oscarina never hides her feelings.

Click on the image for the larger version at oscarinaland.com.

Just kidding. Although I did do this latest Oscarina while on Claritin, having finally caved and gone for the allergy meds, what with the cherry blossoms poisoning the air!

By the way, for anyone subscribing to Oscarina previously, your link may be obsolete since I accidentally deleted the entire website and had to start over again from scratch. So, please update! I’ll keep posting here until everyone’s on board, then you can go to  oscarinaland.com for your Oscarina.

(click on the image to see the larger image at home on oscarinaland.com)

As always, Oscarina can be found at oscarinaland.com!

This week I did an Oscarina that I only got silly with after publishing. Silly sometimes comes later, and I like silly. So there are two versions. First and second, below.

And as always, Oscarina can be found at oscarinaland.com.

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I forgot to tell you I’ve been working on a new weekly cartoon, called Oscarina! She’s been getting a pretty good response so far, which surprises me, actually. She’s just a pet idea I had about a grumpy little girl who happens to look and think a lot like me when I was a little girl. Big coincidence! Ha!

Anyway, here’s a sample and a link.

The first Oscarina (click on the cartoon for a larger version in situ):

The ERS’s production of Gatz was one of the more moving theatrical experiences in my life, so when they asked me to donate some artwork for the benefit auction, I was only too happy to do so. I ordered some mypenguin “naked” editions of The Great Gatsby from a Waterstones bookstore in London (because Penguin wouldn’t sell directly to the USA for some reason), but they took so long to arrive that I ended up going to Barnes & Noble to buy whatever edition I could find of The Great Gatsby, and drew on them. I was so pleased with one of the drawings that I had it turned into a rubber stamp to use on the mypenguin books whenever they finally arrived (long, sad story! they don’t use tape on their packaging in the UK, it seems! they are all so polite over there that they just ask the books to stay inside the box, and off they go!).

Here is one of the three books that DID arrive (the fourth is still AWOL —hello, Waterstones!), with my rubber stamp on it:

The ERS’s production of Gatz was one of the more moving theatrical experiences in my life, so when they asked me to donate some artwork for the benefit auction, I was only too happy to do so. I ordered some mypenguin “naked” editions of The Great Gatsby from a Waterstones bookstore in London (because Penguin wouldn’t sell directly to the USA for some reason), but they took so long to arrive that I ended up going to Barnes & Noble to buy whatever edition I could find of The Great Gatsby, and drew on them. I was so pleased with one of the drawings that I had it turned into a rubber stamp to use on the mypenguin books whenever they finally arrived (long, sad story! they don’t use tape on their packaging in the UK, it seems! they are all so polite over there that they just ask the books to stay inside the box, and off they go!).

Here is one of the three books that DID arrive (the fourth is still AWOL), with my rubber stamp on it:

(Click on the goat above, and then on the blue “view calendar pages” link, or here, to see each month’s animal.)

For those that haven’t taken advantage of my “Get someone’s goat” heifer.org offer, there’s the “Critter Calendar,” which contains an animal drawing per month, taken from my heifer.org collection. Some of these drawings are no longer available as originals, having been given away as part of the offer, so this is your chance to have them as a print. Only $17.00 each, two dollars (the profit after cafepress.com’s production fee), will go to heifer.org as a donation before January 1st. I hope to sell enough of them to at least buy a goat for $120.

Personally, I have already bought a goat in my parents name for Christmas, as have a friend or two. I highly recommend this charity—you have probably already received their catalogue in the mail. Check it out!

Click on the pic to see the winning caption. (I don’t choose the winner, in case anyone wants to ask me about it—I leave that to the New Yorker!)