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Thank you Stan! , E. Sjule , Margreet de Heer , Loitt , Michael Maslin's Ink Spill , and the nearly 500 others for tuning into my live video with Liza Donnelly yesterday! Join me for my next live video in the app next Thursday, Sept 4th at 12pm EST when I speak with political cartoonist Kevin KAL Kallaugher . You can follow his new Substack here: Nearly 500 people tuned in yesterday for Drawing Me...

I spent an hour yesterday drawing with Samantha Dion Baker —artist, author, and one the best Substackers on drawing—and came away feeling like I'd just had the best kind of therapy session. Which, as it turns out, is exactly what Sam's work is all about. Sam joined me from her studio in Dumbo, and what started as a casual chat about pickleball evolved into a masterclass on using art as a tool for...

How Beth Spencer Started an Art Movement with a Five-Minute Sketch I need to tell you about Beth Spencer —not because she asked me to (she didn't), but because watching her work on Substack these past few years has been like watching someone perfect the art of making strangers feel less alone with a pencil and a really good attitude about being terrible at things. Beth runs the Introvert Drawing C...

Thank you to those of you who tuned in to my live stream with Nishant Jain ! If you missed it live, I hope you enjoy the replay above. Join me next Tuesday & Friday for my next TWO live episodes with Best-selling Author and Artist Austin Kleon & Two-Time Pulitzer Prize-winning Cartoonist, Ann Telnaes . Tiny People, Big Ideas: My Drawing Lesson with Nishant Jain Yesterday, I had the pleasure of tal...

Yesterday, I sat down with Matt Ruby , a comedian who's somehow managed to turn drug experimentation into art, philosophical wisdom into punchlines, and crowdwork critique into a manifesto. What started as a chat about joke writing quickly devolved into an exploration of why we're all slaves to Chinese algorithms, how meditation is the antidote to everything, and why tension might just be comedy's...

Two Megalomaniacs Walk Into a Democracy: Ann Telnaes on Cartoons, Chaos, and Why We Can't Look Away Earlier today, I got to speak with Ann Telnaes , 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the most fearless voices in political cartooning. (Also, one of my favourite people in the world.) We discussed the urgent question: “How do you document democracy's slow-motion car crash when two unhinged maniacs...

Thank you The Bob , Brendan Leonard , Tammy Evans , Bill Cusano , Mariana Marques , and the 500 others who tuned into my live video with Austin Kleon yesterday ! New York Cartoons is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Join me for the next one on Friday at 11am EDT — I’ll be talking & drawing with special guest, Two...