CAJ at The New Yorker Festival, plus before and after pics!
Me and fellow TNY cartoonist Michael Crawford at TNY Festival HQ, in the Acura Lounge, which commissioned me to draw this backdrop above, as well as the caption contest drawing below for this event.
In case you were curious, the image was the client’s idea, and below is the first draft, which was modified to the above as follows: – client was afraid it looked like the people were going to be run over by the speeding Acura, so crosswalk and clear “walk” signal on street sign were added, while pedestrians were instructed to look both ways, even though they had the light – client was afraid butterflies and birdies might end up splattered on windshield, so all flying objects were directed by flight control to fly in a safer zone – client was afraid the bunnies might be run over, so bunnies were sent to “live on a farm upstate” (meaning, I cooked them into a nice stew and served them to my children). – client didn’t like “bush” in back seat, so “bush” promptly relocated to the roomy trunk, while the flowers growing in the street were picked and placed behind the cartoonist’s ear in a coquettish manner – cartoonist refrained from submitting a version with pedestrians bodies flying in the air after being hit by speeding Acura, and multiple bunnies flattened with tire tracks plastered on street.
Hooray for Photoshop! And FYI, I did not provide a caption myself.