…Coming to you from the sun and pee-drenched sidewalks of Hell’s Kitchen, welcome to Issue #430 of New York Cartoons!
Thank you to everyone who has subscribed since the above video went live yesterday. If you’re new here, start here and work your way down. I’ve been writing this newsletter for 9 years (4+ of those on Substack), and I feel like there’s something for everyone at this point. 430 Issues! What an insane, compulsive obsession I’ve developed here.
I’ve been enjoying writing and drawing for all of you, and I’ve got a few great new posts in the hopper, ready to publish this coming week for paid subscribers. Keep your eyes peeled!
“Use Substack to get an agent & launch your book with Mikala Jamison & Jason Chatfield”
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I talk about the new book (Out April 29!) and how it came to be, and how the publishing industry has been changing, how it works, how it doesn’t, what I’m doing to promote the book, and much more. Sarah is a great resource for all things Substack, but also for writers and authors (with and without agents) who are interested in launching both new and backlisted books.
I got to meet (and draw) Sarah at a dinner party in New York recently, and we immediately locked in, spending so much time talking shop. Process is my favourite topic, so if you start talking to me about it, you’re gonna need a hose to get me to stop.
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Big News!
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This week’s Sketchbook is dedicated to my uncle Jack, who my family had to say goodbye to this past week. He always lit up the room with his cheeky laugh. A perfect role model for how to live well, spreading joy wherever he went.
We'll all miss him very much. 😞
10th NYC Anniversary Picture This Show
Thank you to all of you who came out to Union Hall on the weekend for the epic 10th Anniversary show of Picture This!— where we saddle a cartoonist with a comedian for the night to draw what they’re talking about and see what falls out. I ended up hosting the show and also drawing for Kevin Casey White. We may or may not have created an iconic (and deeply offensive) cartoon character in real time. We had a last-minute drop out, so the hilarious
(follow her Substack) jumped in and murdered, fresh off performing her latest hour on the same stage an hour before. It was a great show— to find out when the next one is, follow @PictureThisComedy
Is this the end of the political cartoonist?
I read an interesting article this week about the state of political cartooning —both internationally and domestically in my home country of Australia— in the Sydney Morning Herald. I’ve written before about the cacophony of furious hair-triggered outraged opinions that can so easily be flung at creators now, thanks to the comments section of social media. The other issue is one of ‘intended audience’. If a cartoon is created for a specific reader and finds its way into a totally different audience online through some other means of publication, the implications can be pretty dire, especially if the intended message becomes completely skewed by removing the context in which the cartoon was made.
I’ve always lived by the mantra of ‘the reaction doesn’t belong to you’, but in the age of social media, we’re now open to our work being shared with unintended audiences (and unintended consequences.)
From the SMH:
Another challenge for modern cartoonists is the cacophony of furious opinions about their work, which can lead to vicious, personal attacks. “The ability of social media to take a cartoon way outside of its intended audience, often for the express purpose of inviting a pile on, has certainly been cause for many cartoonists to decide that social media is not worth the pain, or that maybe they won’t touch a subject,” Wilcox told a recent cartoon symposium.
Read the rest of the Article here.
He has fallen in love with my shoe. I’m very happy for him, and wish them both nothing but the best.
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