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TNY festivities begin!

Posted in TNY on Friday, Oct. 6, 2006

(Click on the image to go straight to Emdashes’ TNY Festival coverage!)

Maybe you can’t make it in person, or maybe Emily Gordon’s reportage is indispensable to your New Yorker Festival experience. In either case, go to the beautifully redesigned emdashes at its new address: emdashes.com.

I spent all night under Emily’s judicious whip, doing and re-doing the above logo for her festival reportings—and all my editors know how much I love an editor who knows how get the best out of me! It was all worth it!
Also, it was about time I stopped unpacking and drew something! (Meanwhile, back to unpacking!)

And if you’re in town, come to Matt Diffee’s “Rejection Collection“ book signing at Festival Headquarters (Union Square’s Barnes & Noble) tomorrow! Five of my cartoons are in the book!

Have fun!

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Introducing the adverlita…

Posted in etc. on Friday, Oct. 6, 2006

The handy walking, intuitive coffee cup and milk pitcher, on standby, waiting for those telltale signs that you need a cuppa. The sugar you have to get up and find yourself, for the exercise. (image: carolita johnson)

Down time has given me the opportunity to think about newyorkette and resolve to change a thing or two. Here’s resolution number one. Who needs Google Ads? My little brother used to click on them, hoping to make me some dough. But it turns out multiple clicks by friends and family are against the rules! There’s a name for that! It’s called cheating! I have yet to reach the fifty dollar mark since February when I started newyorkette! My readership are not shopping, and I congratulate them! Who needs half the stuff those ads come up with?

So I’m getting rid of Google Ads this weekend, and plan on creating my own ads. Maybe I’ll do fictional products, or maybe I’ll do real ones for things I like, just like that. Or funny ones about things I don’t like. Why not? Is there a law against it? (If there is, do let me know!)

Above, a rough sketch for an ad promoting a product I think we need. (Okay, a product I need.) So far, I’m calling these ads “adverlitas,” since “madvertisements” is already taken. (Rhymes with “Carolita.”)

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Today’s not my day

Posted in NYC on Monday, Oct. 2, 2006

But it’s emdashes’ day! Check out the launch of the fresh new emdashes.com!

My life is still a bit like the above raw scan of random drawings I found on my hard drive. Except my life is a lot messier, as I’m up to my ears in boxes, and am slowly chipping away at the whole unpacking process. Which would be easier if the previous tenant had vacated the last third of his belongings, ahem. I have only just been able to find my modem and set it up with DSL (no thanks to JosÃ© of Verizon DSL’s technical support, who was completely useless to me), and I’ve just been greeted by The Cockroach (there’s always one of particularly generous dimensions to great one upon moving in), who is testing my territorial limits.

(I haven’t unpacked my bug spray and industrial strength roach killer that the exterminator gave me as a going away present yet (oh, yes, my exterminators always bask in the appreciation I shower them with, and they take good care of me), but wait till I do. It’ll be a fine how-do-you-do for mister yucky under my chair here. Apparently it will kill him and put a curse on all his sons and daughters, biblical style. He knows who I’m talking about.)

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