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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.

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:

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.:

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!)

It’s having a cartoon in the “Cartoon Issue” of The New Yorker!

On a sadder note, Leo Cullum, one of the great New Yorker cartoonists, passed away this weekend. He was a true gent, a swell guy, and a brilliant cartoonist, and I’ll be sad not to see him around anymore. Links to articles on his life and his passing here, and here.

Here’s the latest of my cartoons in The New Yorker magazine. They’re both cartoons I drew a while ago, which may be evident from the drawing style. Sometimes a cartoon waits a little while before being published, for no particular reason other than that there are a lot of cartoons waiting to be published, so someone has to wait a while. It’s nice to see cartoons I forgot about! Much better than getting them back in a “kill” envelope.

and:

In case you’re wondering why clicking on one cartoon links to the New Yorker’s website, and the other links to the cartoonbank, the older cartoons are no longer accessible to me on the magazine’s website, so I have to link to the cartoonbank instead.

Forgot to post this cartoon, which appeared in the August 2, 2010 issue:

(That’s what I always think when they say the wedding vows!)

PS!! I have started a new website (as opposed to this blog) because my old one (carolita.org) is too hard to update, unfortunately, and gave me too many headaches and heartaches. My new website can be seen by clicking HERE.

It’s June, which means wedding season. Here’s my cartoon from last week’s The New Yorker, on the subject of proposals.

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.

My latest cartoon in The New Yorker, based, again, on a true story. I was late for a job due to stubbornly remaining at my table in Bryant Park while a couple of dingdongs tried to stare me away. Totally worth it, since this cartoon came of it.  And my client didn’t notice I was late, anyway. And I got to use the word “dingdong.”

I was sure my mother would think I was making some jibe about her, so I did my best to make these people look like nobody in our family! But of course, it is a jibe about her! Hahahahahah! Just kidding. It’s a jibe about every woman’s mother, because nobody is special enough to think this is directed at any one particular mother, sorry! Or maybe, lucky you, everybody!

Click on the image to link to The New Yorker.

I’ve been saying that for months! (My friends know that only too well, alas!)

I have been inactive for the last weeks due to preparing to move, and then moving, and then unpacking, all of which takes way more time than anyone would reasonably think! And now I’m doing my taxes, so I’ll be scarce at least a week longer. But here’s my latest cartoon in The New Yorker—which I almost didn’t know about, since my New Yorker hasn’t been forwarded to my new address yet, and I hadn’t seen the magazine. Thanks to my friends for letting me know!

I think there’s also an ad for The Bubble Lounge with an illustration by me, too. If anyone sees it, let me know!

Based on a true story, I did this cartoon hoping there would one day be a New Yorker “Sex Issue,” never imagining it would be bought, but always dreaming it would be published!

Above is how time flies for me. I did this doodle this morning while drinking my coffee. Suddenly I realized it was time to run to my day job! Thus, “time” and “carrots.”

As far as cartoons go, here’s my latest in The New Yorker:

And here’s my debut on 23/6, the Huffington Post’s comic relief site, with a musing on President Bush and the Shoe Incident.

When I sell a cartoon, or see one published, I like to put up my rejects for good measure! So, first, here’s a link to my latest cartoons to appear in The New Yorker, this week a Halloween-themed one, and earlier, a childhood/artist-themed one. If that’s not enough, here’s a IQ-test game called “I don’t get it” from the Cartoon Issue, in which one of my old cartoons makes an appearance!

Now to the rejects!

I tried to come up with some images for The Bubble Lounge, one of my illustration clients, because I didn’t like the photo they asked me to use for a champagne delivery promo I was working on for them, but both my ideas were rejected!

Oh well! Here they are:

This one was inspired by a Japanese delivery truck logo I once saw in Tokyo.

And this one just popped into my head, inspired by a Le Monde graphic  for newspaper delivery used in their subscription ads:

If you have a sharp eye, you may already have noticed the link in the sidebar pointing to the Cartoon Lounge, the cartoonist’s blog on The New Yorker’s website. If not, surprise!

This is a cartoon I sent in for the “Worst things about summer” post, which is in excellent company with fellow cartoonist’s illustrations of the worst of summer. I was really glad to send it in, because only the day before found me riding the subway with a friend when a fellow commuter rose to debark, and I felt impelled by some premonition of discovery to look down at his seat to the left of me, whereupon I noticed he had left behind the surprisingly well-defined outline, in microscopic moisture droplets clinging to the orange plastic seat, of his buttocks.

“Look! Butt-condensation!” I said to my friend. Who ignored me. “Look!”, I repeated, generously forgiving him for ignoring me, “Butt condensation!” My friend barely turned halfway around to me and said, “Only you would notice that.” Oh yeah? Well, now maybe a few other people will notice it too, and have a name for it! I can’t wait till I hear someone else pronounce the glorious words, “butt condensation.” It’ll make me so proud.

I sympathize with Evan Forsch, whose main complaint about summer is that he can’t wear his home-made goose down vest, but I beg to disagree: he could wear it. It would just be unbearably hot. Me, I have the opposite problem (see photo to the left): I have to wear parkas all summer (for my day job), and it’s no fun but it pays well. For desperate moments I have one of these.

BTW - thanks to Zach Kanin for perpetuating the stereotype that portrays us cartoonists as always drunk. It’s bad enough people think all we do is sleep all day when we’re not drawing or drinking. Now I’ll never be able to convince people that my flask is only filled with water. (It really is only filled with water. I mean it.) Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go back to bed.

I won’t be exactly roughing it, as the slogan goes. But I’ll be working!
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