New York Cartoons: Best of 2024

If you’ve been stockpiling articles to read ‘when you get time,’ Dead Week is the perfect opportunity to do so.

2024 has been wilder than a Times Square Elmo on a can of Monster Energy. Amid the madness, New York Cartoons somehow became a Substack Best-Seller, which either means you all have excellent taste or we're collectively experiencing a shared delusion. Either way, I'll take it. Thank you.

If I had to sum up this year in a single gif, it would be…

For those of you hoarding newsletters like squirrels before winter, Dead Week is your moment. You know, that weird, liminal space between Christmas and New Year's when time loses all meaning, and you can't remember if it's Tuesday or February.

Below is everything I wrote this year. Feel free to pick through it like a ravenous aunt at a charcuterie board before Christmas dinner. It’s yours to enjoy. Nobody’s watching.

And hey, if you've been enjoying this circus of creativity but haven't upgraded to a paid subscription yet, consider this my subtle-as-a-brick hint: Every paid subscription means one less freelance gig I have to take, which means more time to write these newsletters instead of drawing another corporate mascot that looks suspiciously like an off-model bootleg of Spongebob Squarepants. Plus, it helps justify to my accountant why I keep writing off bagels as a "business expense."

With love, your pal,

If you’d prefer a menu list of links to browse and pick from, here is everything published in 2024:

• A Small Moment on the Sidewalk Outside Trump Hotel on Thursday

• 'How do you decide who you're going to be when you get up in the morning?'

• Madison Square Bark!

• 3 Hot Hours Stranded on New Jersey Transit with Livid Passengers

• 15 People and Things I Would Rather Vote for Than Trump...

• A Botched Audition, a Hair-Dryer, and a hunt for Pina Colada mix.

• A Fever Dream Encounter with Louis C.K.

• A New York Burlesque Show, A Crotch Muppet, The Stripper Police & A Belarusian Prison Guard

• A New Yorkers Night at Rodney's (feat. a New York City Icon. Also, OnlyFans)

• A Night at Radio City Music Hall

• A Night at the "Moulin Rouge" AKA- The Al Hirschfeld Theatre

• A Quiet Place- Day One

• An Honour to Be Double-Nominated!

• Are Cartoonists Writers?

• Backyard Comedy Shows in New York

• Caricaturing the Caricaturists in Paris- Then and Now.

• Charles M. "Sparky" Schulz 100th Birthday Wall

• Dispatches from NancyFest 2024

• I hid these cards around New York and got the weirdest emails back.

• Japan Sketchbook #1- Sunday in the Park with Charcoal

• Join me on Notes - by Jason Chatfield - New York Cartoons

• MAD Magazine Finally Gets the Curtain Call it Deserves

• My dog just encountered his first AI Robot Dog on the NYC Sidewalk

• Nothing says "Will You Marry Me?" like a cartoon that says "Will You Marry Me?"

• NYC Is 'Dead' Forever- Here's Why Not

• Paris Sketchbook #2- Christmas Day Orphans at Cafe Vaudeville

• Quiche Lorraine on Pablo's Patio

• Sketchbook- Smudge Man

• Sneaking Into The Good Room with Meryl Streep- A Wild Night of Bottomless Martinis & Parasol Churros

• Spilling Ink at the Hotel Chelsea

• Thank you for making New York Cartoons a Substack Best-Seller!

• The $1000 CartoonStock Caption Contest

• The 2023 Portrait

• The Long and the Short of It

• The Morning After.

• The New Yorker VS. New York Review of Books - A Scandal in Central Park

• The New Yorker's 98th Birthday Party

• The Night Trump Blocked Me on Twitter

• The Sounds and Sights of Hasbrouck Heights

• The Vessel. (Of Death)

• The Worst Haircut Of My Life

• Today's Daily New Yorker Cartoon- Halftime at the Felony Finals

• Total Eclipse of the Park

• Upper East Side Story- A Cartoonist's Report

• We Drew every street in New York City on Our Apartment Wall.

If you’d prefer them all with wee previews of what they’re about, take a squiz…

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