Geez, where has the summer gone? It’s been a real hot sweaty mess of creative transition.
My garden was fun to care for, and didn’t produce much actual food but DID produce this absolute monster sunflower which is, somehow, still growing.
I have been running a lot more (marathon next year??). I was compelled to buy one of those hydration vests, which I learned is little more than a horrible, sweaty girdle that is very hard to actually drink water out of.
I’m trying to set myself up for a long stretch of primarily drawing. A friend said something wise about how your workspace should remove all obstacles between you and creativity - so, I organized my whole workspace to maximize access to the art supplies and books I want to use more. Highly recommend for a hit of that fresh “back to school!!!” feeling.
I had a cartoon published in the September 9, 2024 edition of the New Yorker -
Always such a treat for this to happen, especially when it feels like I’ve been so absorbed in non-cartoon business for so long.
Fun fact: I wrote this caption intending it to be a jab at lawyers and their chronic inability to say a straight “yes” or “no” to anything - but then i googled the actual phrase and realized it’s actually officially called a “Glomar response,” associated with the US Freedom of Information Act. Oh well. The more you know! (This reminds me of how i did not know what “Kafkaesque” meant until I drew this cartoon and watched this Onion video.)
(Below the paywall: sketches & process for this New Yorker cartoon; fancy new pen; very exciting project announcement; inspirational book!)