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I have an article up at thehairpin.com, with photos and cartoons, all about every job I ever had before becoming a cartoonist.
Here’s a teaser:

You can click on the image above for the article.

I had my “recipe comix” moment at saveur.com! Click on the excerpt below for the full strip (and recipe)!

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.

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)

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)

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!

I just realized I never put a link up to this article, written about me and my good man and fellow cartoonist Michael Crawford. I guess I just figured the New York Times was coverage enough!  Anyway, here it is: Where Punchlines Pay The Rent. And no, there’s no audio of me playing the banjo badly! Phew!

I re-post this every year for Father’s Day. Click here!

Fort Tryon Park:

This is the blizzard view of the GW Bridge.

UPDATE: Fort Tryon Park, at night.

According to my calendar, it’s Immaculate Conception Day. Albertus Magnus makes for some interesting reading on the subject of how Immaculate Conception is possible, if you can manage the Latin. And if you can, have fun! I might add that the Immaculate Conception was conceived well after it supposedly happened, and that the word for “maiden” in Ancient Greek (in which language the first Bibles were written), was usually the same word as the word for “virgin.” The idea being that a maiden was usually a virgin, because she was unmarried. That’s all I’m gonna say about it. Except that the very first Christians were not so quick to judge and unwed mother as some of the latter day ones.

Another way we cartoonists make money is by being paid to draw at high end events where a New Yorker cartoonist is just the thing.  I got a reputation for making people look good, so I hardly ever get to just draw cartoons at these events. People love having their portraits drawn, even by bad portrait artists, isn’t that funny? It’s a bit like having their palm read, irresistible, even if it’s obviously a scam. And it’s fun, anyway. How many artists get interesting people to sit for them for free, and even get paid to draw?  This is one of the portraits I was most proud of, from an event the other day. This guy was a dream to draw—great face, great style.

I put this up on my salon blog. Everybody’s doing blogs on these net magazines, so why not me?

On the Huffington Post:

On Salon.com: