Draw Me Anything with Jason Chatfield

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.newyorkcartoons.com Jessie Kanelos Weiner came back on Draw Me Anything this morning. That makes her my only three-time guest, which I announced live and then immediately wondered aloud whether we still had anything to talk about. (We did. We talked for 45 minutes and I never once got to the drawing I’d prepared.) (Watch the full re...

Hello again, friend! We did it. Scott Dooley and I birthed a book! You’re Not a Real Parent Until... is out today. It’s pub day! (Publication day, for those of you not in the biz. For those of you in the biz, my condolences.) Earlier today, Scott and I went live here on Substack for our official virtual launch. Thank you to everyone who tuned in live and shared your parenting experiences! (Watch t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.newyorkcartoons.com Michael Maslin has been in The New Yorker for 49 years… He has catalogued every cartoonist who ever drew for the magazine, and wanted me to know that, off camera, he is surrounded by “a lot more books.” (Not his books. Just books. A man after my own heart.) Thank you to everyone who tuned in and left comments dur...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.newyorkcartoons.com Stay tuned for the full recap tomorrow…

Thursday, midday. Paul Noth is in Milwaukee, where he moved back after 20 years split between the Upper East Side and the Princeton area, and where he now has, as he put it while wandering to another room mid-stream to chase better WiFi, multiple rooms. (We get it, Paul. You don’t live in Manhattan anymore.) First order of business: it’s Noth , rhymes with both . He’s been letting people say “Nawt...

Thursday, midday. Paul Noth is in Milwaukee, where he moved back after 20 years split between the Upper East Side and the Princeton area, and where he now has, as he put it while wandering to another room mid-stream to chase better WiFi, multiple rooms. (We get it, Paul. You don’t live in Manhattan anymore.) First order of business: it’s Noth , rhymes with both . He’s been letting people say “Nawt...

Wednesday, midday… Brian Biggs is alone in his Philadelphia studio, an old garage he describes as a hermit cave, holding his phone in one hand and a pen in the other. I’m at my drawing board doing the same. For the next hour, 90 people watched 2 grown men show each other their doodles. If you missed it live, the replay is above. What follows is what you missed, with links to everything we held up...

Wednesday, midday… Brian Biggs is alone in his Philadelphia studio, an old garage he describes as a hermit cave, holding his phone in one hand and a pen in the other. I’m at my drawing board doing the same. For the next hour, 90 people watched 2 grown men show each other their doodles. If you missed it live, the replay is above. What follows is what you missed, with links to everything we held up...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.newyorkcartoons.com On Wednesday at 8pm, I did something I have never done in 20 years of cartooning: I drew a stork, live, on the internet, while two grown men discussed laundry detergent… (I know. Weird that it took me so long, right?!) Let me back up. I went live on Substack with my co-authors on a book we’re writing about how co...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.newyorkcartoons.com Carly Valancy beamed in from Valencia, Spain. Some of you will remember Carly. She interviewed me on her Substack, A Good Omen, a while back. This week I got to return fire. Four years ago, Carly reached out to the writer Alex Dobrenko` . When she interviewed him, she asked who she should talk to next. He said me...

Subscribe, rate, and please leave us a funny ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review wherever you listen to podcasts. Welcome back for another episode of Is There Something In This? Outside, seaplanes kept coming down the East River like they’d been thrown, and every twenty minutes Scott and I stopped mid-sentence to watch one not crash. One aborted, came around, and hit the water hard enough that we both made the...

About twelve years ago, a teacher hired me to draw a caricature of her colleague as a gift. The colleague, she mentioned, was a New Yorker cartoonist. I said yes immediately, then realised I had no idea what the man looked like. That’s the whole profession, basically. You know the work, you know the signature, you’ve never seen the face. “It’s the perfect crime,” Avi Steinberg said this week, a de...

About twelve years ago, a teacher hired me to draw a caricature of her colleague as a gift. The colleague, she mentioned, was a New Yorker cartoonist. I said yes immediately, then realised I had no idea what the man looked like. That’s the whole profession, basically. You know the work, you know the signature, you’ve never seen the face. “It’s the perfect crime,” Avi Steinberg said this week, a de...

I said at the top of this episode that I didn’t want to call Josh Gondelman a comedian, because the word does about a third of the required work. Here is the CV, and I have since checked it against his actual bio rather than my memory, which is a courtesy I extend to guests and to no one else. Five years at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver , first as web producer and then as staff writer, where...

I said at the top of this episode that I didn’t want to call Josh Gondelman a comedian, because the word does about a third of the required work. Here is the CV, and I have since checked it against his actual bio rather than my memory, which is a courtesy I extend to guests and to no one else. Five years at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver , first as web producer and then as staff writer, where...

Over Austin Kleon ’s shoulder, the whole time we talked, Lynda Barry watched us. Not the actual Lynda Barry; an original manuscript page from Cruddy , hanging on his studio wall next to an outtake from Making Comics . He calls them his Guardian Spirits, and the plan is to keep adding to them until he’s got a full pantheon of demigods looming over his desk. I understand the impulse completely. I’ve...

Over Austin Kleon ’s shoulder, the whole time we talked, Lynda Barry watched us. Not the actual Lynda Barry; an original manuscript page from Cruddy , hanging on his studio wall next to an outtake from Making Comics . He calls them his Guardian Spirits, and the plan is to keep adding to them until he’s got a full pantheon of demigods looming over his desk. I understand the impulse completely. I’ve...

Let me tell you who Myq Kaplan is, because if you’re not already a fan, that changes today. He’s been doing comedy for going on twenty-five years. He has a Comedy Central special. He was a finalist on Last Comic Standing . He’s been on Comedy Bang Bang and Keith and the Girl more times than I can count. He has two specials on YouTube - AKA and Rini - and a new one he’s just recorded. He runs a Sub...

Let me tell you who Myq Kaplan is, because if you’re not already a fan, that changes today. He’s been doing comedy for going on twenty-five years. He has a Comedy Central special. He was a finalist on Last Comic Standing . He’s been on Comedy Bang Bang and Keith and the Girl more times than I can count. He has two specials on YouTube - AKA and Rini - and a new one he’s just recorded. He runs a Sub...

My drawing board is currently covered in a mix of art supplies and aggressively pungent deli meats. I’ve got a puddle of Higgins ink dangerously close to a towering pastrami on rye, and my entire apartment smells of mustard. Outside my window, a sanitation truck is violently reversing down 9th Avenue. The floorboards are vibrating. On my monitor, looking entirely too relaxed for a man navigating t...

My drawing board is currently covered in a mix of art supplies and aggressively pungent deli meats. I’ve got a puddle of Higgins ink dangerously close to a towering pastrami on rye, and my entire apartment smells of mustard. Outside my window, a sanitation truck is violently reversing down 9th Avenue. The floorboards are vibrating. On my monitor, looking entirely too relaxed for a man navigating t...

There’s a cartoon early in Rich Sparks’s new book of a man my age, alone in a bath, lifting a spoon to his lips. No setup, no crowd, no scene. Just the act, and a title underneath: “Youp.” Where I’m from, that’s a diagnosis. My uncle Greg taught it to me as a child: “Mate, get a load of this bloke. He drinks his own fucken bath water.” (Australian for arrogant.) First cousin to tall poppy syndrome...

There’s a cartoon early in Rich Sparks’s new book of a man my age, alone in a bath, lifting a spoon to his lips. No setup, no crowd, no scene. Just the act, and a title underneath: “Youp.” Where I’m from, that’s a diagnosis. My uncle Greg taught it to me as a child: “Mate, get a load of this bloke. He drinks his own fucken bath water.” (Australian for arrogant.) First cousin to tall poppy syndrome...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.newyorkcartoons.com When I first moved to New York 12 years ago, I did what every terrified transplant does: I asked other comedians for advice… This was a mistake, because comedians are a bag of cats and no two of them agree on anything. One told me to do every open mic in the city. One told me to do none of them. One told me, with...

“You cannot write a line of code that replaces the invisible labour, the thousands of terrible rough sketches, and the deeply human derangement required to make a truly great cartoon.” If you try to launch a print humor magazine in the 21st century, most financial advisors will tell you to just set your money on fire instead; it’s faster, it requires less paperwork, and it keeps you warmer in the...