☕️ LONG READS

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…

Feb 19 •

Jason Chatfield

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.

Feb 17 •

Jason Chatfield

Sketchbook: Live Drawing the 2025 Westminster Dog Show in New York

So many good boys and good girls. So many.

Feb 16 •

Jason Chatfield

Sketchbook: The Launch of The Metropolitan Review

My attempt to put words together about a new publication reviewing the putting together of words.

Feb 4 •

Jason Chatfield

Last Call at the Brickyard: A Comedy Post-Mortem

Fear and Loathing in Radiator Country

Jan 27 •

Jason Chatfield

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.

Jan 20 •

Jason Chatfield

Silencing the Court Jesters.

10 years ago, cartoonists were murdered for drawing offensive things. Things have not been getting better since.

Jan 5 •

Jason Chatfield

A Tale of Two New York Cities: From Hudson Yards to Hell's Kitchen

Notes on a 4-year sojourn among Manhattan's blue glassed sky castles

Jan 4 •

Jason Chatfield

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…

Dec 20, 2024 •

Jason Chatfield

Spilling Ink at the Hotel Chelsea

Substack invited me to live-sketch a rare night with iconic writers, Mary Gaitskill and Tavi Gevinson.

Sep 9, 2024 •

Jason Chatfield

3 Hot Hours Stranded on New Jersey Transit with Livid Passengers

"I repeat: There are no trains goin' in or out of New York. We don't know when service will resume. We apologize for the inconvenience..."

Jul 7, 2024 •

Jason Chatfield

MAD Magazine Finally Gets the Curtain Call it Deserves

The Usual Gang of Idiots were Demigods in my Pantheon growing up; The exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum is a perfectly curated collection of…

Jun 25, 2024 •

Jason Chatfield

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