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Welcome to New York Cartoons!
Stories from an Aussie Cartoonist & Comedian's life in New York.
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Jason Chatfield
Thank you for making New York Cartoons a Substack Best-Seller! 🥳
The tale of two emails that recently changed the course of my life.
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Spilling Ink at the Hotel Chelsea
Substack invited me to live-sketch a rare night with iconic writers, Mary Gaitskill and Tavi Gevinson.
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A Night at Radio City Music Hall
A shooter on the loose, a new comedy special, and the journey of NYC's longest Banh Mi. Ronny Chieng's "Love To Hate It" tour kicked off with several…
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Silencing the Court Jesters.
10 years ago, cartoonists were murdered for drawing offensive things. Things have not been getting better since.
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A free cartoon in your inbox every Tuesday!
Sketchbook: Stooping in New York City
+ the morbid pandemic sidewalk game of "Fled or Dead".
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The Magical Writing Desk
A borrowed rolltop I called home for 6 years.
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The Canary in the Coalmine of Loisaida
Curlie wears a different suit for each day of the week.
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The Legend of Tiger Hood
Boxing is a lot like Comedy. (Except it hurts less when you do it badly.)
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Coming to America
July 4th, 2014... I sold or donated everything I owned, and jumped on a plane to start a new life in the United States. I had no idea what was waiting…
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431. April Fools, New Yorker Covers Masterclass & Draw Me Anything!
+ Adolescence, Consciousness, Draw Your World & Morris gets a new handbag!
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430. Draw Me Anything, A Substack Live About the New Book & The End of the Political Cartoonist?
Plus! 10th Anniversary Show for Picture This & Morris finds his soulmate
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Sarah Fay
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New York Cartoons
New York Cartoons
A free cartoon hits your inbox every Tuesday + stories from my sketchbook that prove being a New Yorker cartoonist & comedian in Manhattan is exactly as unhinged as you'd imagine.
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Process Junkie
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The Curiosity Department
Introvert Drawing Club
Introvert Drawing Club
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Sketchbook
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429. Rejected Shorts, Purim Sketchbook, & Drawing NYC Mugshots
+ MoCCaFest 2025, Picture This 10th NYC Anniversary, New Jokes + Art Gallery Comedy & Morris gets on the payroll
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428. Official NYC Book Launch Announced, Bezos Kills Editorial Freedom (Again) & A Sketchy Assignment with a Twist!
+ Liana Finck on Broadway, Pruning your darlings & Morris discovers his new favourite book
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427. A Marx Brother Birthday at the Algonquin, Democracy Under Siege & The Outsider Art Fair
+ The return of 'Someone You Might Like' & Morris finds his happy place.
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#22: Zoe Si
Someone You Might Like if you enjoy great line and have a penchant for marathon training.
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426. Dogs in Beds, A New Aussie Pub in NYC, & the New Yorker Centoonial!
+ Substack Bestsellers Drinks & Morris' gets "resting walk face."
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📫 WEEKLY EMAILS

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431. April Fools, New Yorker Covers Masterclass & Draw Me Anything!
+ Adolescence, Consciousness, Draw Your World & Morris gets a new handbag!
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429. Rejected Shorts, Purim Sketchbook, & Drawing NYC Mugshots
+ MoCCaFest 2025, Picture This 10th NYC Anniversary, New Jokes + Art Gallery Comedy & Morris gets on the payroll
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Jason Chatfield
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428. Official NYC Book Launch Announced, Bezos Kills Editorial Freedom (Again) & A Sketchy Assignment with a Twist!
+ Liana Finck on Broadway, Pruning your darlings & Morris discovers his new favourite book
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Jason Chatfield
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427. A Marx Brother Birthday at the Algonquin, Democracy Under Siege & The Outsider Art Fair
+ The return of 'Someone You Might Like' & Morris finds his happy place.
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Jason Chatfield
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426. Dogs in Beds, A New Aussie Pub in NYC, & the New Yorker Centoonial!
+ Substack Bestsellers Drinks & Morris' gets "resting walk face."
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✍️ LIVE DRAWING

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429. Rejected Shorts, Purim Sketchbook, & Drawing NYC Mugshots
+ MoCCaFest 2025, Picture This 10th NYC Anniversary, New Jokes + Art Gallery Comedy & Morris gets on the payroll
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Sketchbook: Live Drawing the 2025 Westminster Dog Show in New York
So many good boys and good girls. So many.
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Sketchbook: The Launch of The Metropolitan Review
My attempt to put words together about a new publication reviewing the putting together of words.
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#420. Rodneys Sketchbook, New Yorkers Comedy Show, Railing Against Subway Crime & More!
+ Do cartoons have to be funny? and Morris reveals his winter look.
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416. NYC Banksy Museum Sketches, Leunig Dies & Santa has a Brother!
+ Morris does some Baby Cobra
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415. Drawing Googlers & Mastercarders, Substack > TikTok & Christmas Viewing!
+ Waking Up Gift Cards, and Morris finds you in the Christmas tree
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Upper East Side Story: A Cartoonist's Report
Substack throws a writers' party at EAT, sending in the cartoonists to document the damage.
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Spilling Ink at the Hotel Chelsea
Substack invited me to live-sketch a rare night with iconic writers, Mary Gaitskill and Tavi Gevinson.
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☕️ LONG READS

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The New Yorker Cartoonists Centoonial Party
A hundred New Yorker Cartoonists walk into a bar...
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Small Circles: On Drawing Numismatists and Finding Your Own Kind
An eventful night between the New Yorker 100th Anniversary Cartoonist Show at The Society Of Illustrators & the New York International Numismatic…
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3 Covers to Celebrate the 100th Birthday of Eustace Tilley
The very first edition of The New Yorker was published on this date in 1925.
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Sketchbook: Live Drawing the 2025 Westminster Dog Show in New York
So many good boys and good girls. So many.
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Sketchbook: The Launch of The Metropolitan Review
My attempt to put words together about a new publication reviewing the putting together of words.
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Last Call at the Brickyard: A Comedy Post-Mortem
Fear and Loathing in Radiator Country
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Gary Gulman: Grandiloquent - When Words Take Flight
The Gul's unmissable new show at the Lucille Lortel Theatre is an ode to the written (and spoken) word.
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Silencing the Court Jesters.
10 years ago, cartoonists were murdered for drawing offensive things. Things have not been getting better since.
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Jason Chatfield
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⚡️ SHORT READS

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Kissing The Ring
A cartoon in solidarity with Ann Telnaes
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Sneaking Into The Good Room with Meryl Streep: A Wild Night of Bottomless Martinis & Parasol Churros
A Pickleball Player's Guide to Crashing a Fancy Fundraiser Party
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Upper East Side Story: A Cartoonist's Report
Substack throws a writers' party at EAT, sending in the cartoonists to document the damage.
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The Morning After.
Elect him once: Shame on You. Elect him Twice: Shame on Us.
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Japan Sketchbook #1: Sunday in the Park with Charcoal
Eavesdrawing the patrons of one of Kyoto's Maruyama Park
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The Night Trump Blocked Me on Twitter.
Somewhere in a tunnel between West 4th and 2nd Ave, I got up the President's nose.
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15 People and Things I Would Rather Vote for Than Trump...
The Evergreen Cartoon I Never Anticipated...
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A Quiet Place: Day One
A love story between a New Yorker and a slice of pizza.
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💁‍♀️ PEOPLE YOU MIGHT LIKE

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#22: Zoe Si
Someone You Might Like if you enjoy great line and have a penchant for marathon training.
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#21: @Hilary B. Price
Someone You Might Like if you enjoy funny panel cartoons.
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#20: Asher Perlman
Someone You Might Like if You Like Jokes That Make You Shit Yourself Laughing.
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#19: Dana Jeri Maier
Someone You Might Like if You're a Fellow Process Junkie
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#18: Anthony & Lauren LeDonne
Two someones You Might Like For a Litany of Literary Reasons
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Anthony LeDonne
#17: Joe Dator
Someone You Not Only Might Like, But Might Be Able to Help!
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#16: Emily Flake
Someone You Might Like Who Helps Other People You Might Like
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#15: Anna Codrea-Rado
A Best-Selling Substacker You Might Like!
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