424. Oh Mary! Oh Gary! Oh My Dog!
+ Morris is exhausted from doing press for the new book...
Welcome to Issue #424 of New York Cartoons!
I hope you don’t mind me emailing you twice in two days. I’ve been busy.
This week I got to live draw the Westminster Dog Show in New York, which has been an eye-opener, to say the least. (Also a leg-raiser.) Everything you imagine it to be, it is. If you’ve seen “Best in Show”, you know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t— do yourself a favour…
The exciting part was getting to reveal the thing I’ve been working away on for over 2 years now: the culmination of so many ideas into one big book of cartoons about being a dog owner:
I’ll be sharing my sketches from the show with Premium Subscribers later this week. If you haven’t already, be sure to upgrade now!
This week’s Sketchbook is a sneak peek at the drawing board from the new dog book I mentioned above. I’ll be sharing all kinds of process drawings and behind-the-scenes snippets over the coming months…
The funniest show I’ve seen on Broadway
One of the good things about living in Hell’s Kitchen is I’m a couple of blocks away from the best shows in the world. (One of the bad things is stepping in mystery liquids when on my morning coffee run.)
So! I went to see a few different shows this past week; the first was a comedy wine-tasting show called “In Pour Taste” from a couple of irascible Aussie comics and a sexy sommelier. The next was an incredible show from yet another Aussie comic called “300 Paintings”, which followed the story of the comedian/artist’s journey into a manic episode that lasted a full year, resulting in the production of a comically massive volume of abstract paintings.
The last, and the absolute best, was a show I’ve been wanting to see since it was off-broadway with playwright and lead Cole Escola playing Mary. It’s called “Oh, Mary!” and it gave me a stitch.
Oh, Mary! is a dark comedy about a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Unrequited yearning, alcoholism, and suppressed desires abound in this 80-minute one-act play that finally examines the forgotten life and dreams of Mrs. Lincoln through the lens of an idiot. I couldn’t recommend it highly enough.
This week on Process Junkie, I dive deep into my love of the humble pencil.
I used to work at an animation studio and my bosses names were Mary and Gary and they brought their dogs to work, so this title made me do a double take.
I’m seeing Oh, Mary! In 2 weeks!!! So excited!