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(image: carolita johnson)

There are quite a few of us cartoonists with blogs out there, but when we’re appointed “cartoonist of the month” at the New Yorker’s blogroom, our sometimes dilatarious, slacker ways vanish into thin air, and the cartoonist of the month really steps up to the plate in ways I suspect even the appointed didn’t realize was possible! Have a look! If you ever wanted to ask a cartoonist a personal question, it’s highly likely it’s answered as a matter of course by a cartoonist of the month. It’s also a lot of fun to say “cartoonist of the month.”

Cartoonist of the month:
January: Mick Stevens
February: Michael Maslin

This is part of a little project I’ve been experimenting with in watercolor. Particularly appropriate for today’s weather!

I try to make it to Jason Polan’s quite famous Taco Bell Drawing Club whenever I can, but it’s not often enough!
Here are a couple of my very silly ball-point pen doodles from the last meet-up. My inspiration was New York’s vermin, which I assume to be possessed of rather degenerate character traits to match their lifestyles. And if you object to my classifying squirrels as vermin, just call up the ASPCA, who I called once when I caught a vandalous squirrel that I wanted them to pick up and book. They said they did not take care of “vermin.”

My classification of vermin mostly extends to critters who savagely violate my window boxes. Like that squirrel I caught two years ago. Boy, was he pissed! (It was a humane trap, don’t worry! And he learned his lesson, becoming much more respectful of my window boxes after his release!) (The lesson was reinforced from time to time by the aid of a garden hose I hooked up to my kitchen sink, near the window. You don’t want to mess with a cartoonist.)

Here is the Taco Bell Drawing Club’s blog: drawingattacobell.blogspot.com

Go vote! Make history! This is a big one!

If you’re not sure where to vote, check this link, here.

I won’t be exactly roughing it, as the slogan goes. But I’ll be working!
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I had forgotten about this till now, when I got to the last page of my magazine this week, but here you go — my TNY Cartoon Caption Contest appearance, with the winning caption by Mr. Phelps (not related to the Mr. Phelps of “Good morning, Mr. Phelps, your mission, if you decide to take it…”): “I’ll walk, you shovel.”