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Welcome to New York Cartoons!
Stories from an Aussie Cartoonist & Comedian's life in New York.
Oct 14, 2020
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Jason Chatfield
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Marginalia & Meisterstücks: Backstage at the Comedy Cellar with Neil deGrasse Tyson
On the existence of aliens, the myth of the platypus, and why you should never use the word "marginalia" in front of the world's most famous scientist.
May 25
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Jason Chatfield
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472. New York Explodes (with boos), A New Yorker Knicks Cartoon, & Austin Kleon returns!
Plus! New Yorker Softball, High Line Sketchbook , and Morris is thrilled to participate in the festivities.
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Silencing the Court Jesters.
Jan 5, 2025
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DMA#37: How to Survive Farting At The Queen (and Why Hippos are Murder Potatoes)
Mar 9
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Jenny Lawson (thebloggess)
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Kissing The Ring
Jan 8, 2025
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Why Hanlon’s Razor is the Only Thing Keeping Me from screaming into a Pillow
Feb 17
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How to make a living drawing pictures in a world that keeps updating its software while you’re still installing the last update?
Oct 21, 2025
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The “F-Word” and the End of the Joke
Feb 8
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I've Been Invited to Guest Lecture at Stanford this Fall. (Yikes!)
Surely, this is some kind of administrative error...
Oct 22, 2025
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Jason Chatfield
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A Daily Toon for the New Yorker: Real Knicks Fans Who Are Terrible with Money (a love letter to the Garden)
Drawing the New York pecking order, one flimsy nib stroke at a time
Jun 8
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Jason Chatfield
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Nice Followers You’ve Got There...
On the indignity of letting an algorithm decide if your friends are allowed to see your art…
Jun 6
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Jason Chatfield
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Eight Duck Salads with Gus Van Sant
A New Yorker Cartoonists' Lunch with one Hollywood's finest directors.
Jun 5
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Jason Chatfield
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DMA#53: Drinking Your Own Bath Water: A Morning with Rich Sparks
"Getting a dog right doesn't mean getting a dog funny."
Jun 3
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Jason Chatfield
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Rich Sparks
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DMA#53: Rich Sparks!
Tune in at 12:30pm EDT Today
Jun 3
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Jason Chatfield
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DMA #52: The Patron Saint of NYC Comedy Photos, with Mindy Tucker
Mindy's spent twenty years quietly building her one million-strong photographic history of New York comedy... now she's opening up her archive to share…
Jun 2
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Jason Chatfield
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51:58
DMA#53: Drinking Your Own Bath Water: A Morning with Rich Sparks
"Getting a dog right doesn't mean getting a dog funny."
Jun 3
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Jason Chatfield
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Rich Sparks
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DMA#53: Rich Sparks!
Tune in at 12:30pm EDT Today
Jun 3
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Jason Chatfield
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DMA #52: The Patron Saint of NYC Comedy Photos, with Mindy Tucker
Mindy's spent twenty years quietly building her one million-strong photographic history of New York comedy... now she's opening up her archive to share…
Jun 2
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Jason Chatfield
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Don't forget! DMA#52 with Special Guest Mindy Tucker (Monday 1pm)
The best photographer in New York comedy has been quietly building a museum of all of us...
May 31
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Jason Chatfield
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DMA#51: 'Truths Are Just Jokes That Nobody Laughed At' with Myq Kaplan
The Show That Ended Before We Were Done: On what kiwis have to do with great art, what pliers have to do with Buddhism, and why the second part of…
May 31
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Sketchbook: Stooping in New York City
...and the morbid pandemic-era sidewalk game of "Fled or Dead".
May 3
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Jason Chatfield
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Comedy Sketchbook: The Sounds and Sights of Hasbrouck Heights w/Chris Redd, Sean Morton, & Melted Diner "Cheese."
A 9 year-old Journal Entry from a New Jersey road gig at Bananas Comedy Club
Apr 10
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Jason Chatfield
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Sketchbook: Library Bar At the Nomad Hotel (2018)
Eavesdrawing at my favourite time of year...
Apr 6
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Jason Chatfield
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Comedy Sketchbook: The Sounds and Sights of Hasbrouck Heights w/Chris Redd, Sean Morton, & Melted Diner "Cheese."
A 9 year-old Journal Entry from a New Jersey road gig at Bananas Comedy Club
Apr 4
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Jason Chatfield
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Sketchbook: Drawing Dogs at the 2026 Westminster Dog Show
New York goes all out for the 150th Annual Westminster Dog Show - the second-oldest sporting event in America
Feb 4
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Process Junkie
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The Key Habit of the World’s Greatest Artists
Plus! A big announcement of an upcoming guest on Draw Me Anything...
Jun 6, 2025
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Jason Chatfield
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What I Learned About Trusting the Process from Ross Barkan's "Glass Century" Launch
On the value of grounding stories in specific details.
May 28, 2025
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Jason Chatfield
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Artist VS AI: I went head-to-head ChatGPT for 30 minutes straight...
DMA#8: The Great AI Flop: Artist vs. Algorithm
May 15, 2025
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Jason Chatfield
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AI Really Is Coming For Artists
What the new WEF report tells us about the impending AI-induced bedlam.
May 13, 2025
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Jason Chatfield
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Thinking In Watercolour w/special guest Jessie Kanelos Weiner!
DMA#7: Learning from mistakes in watercolour & drawing dogs
May 9, 2025
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Jason Chatfield
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Jessie Kanelos Weiner
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📫 WEEKLY EMAILS
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471. Pizza on the Fire Escape, Drawing Dogs in the West Village & Stooping in NYC
Plus! An Award Nomination for Ya Boy, A Big Surprise Post for Tomorrow, & Morris finds the perfect pillow...
May 11
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Jason Chatfield
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470. Michigan Comedy Diaries, The Jetsons in NYC & 'The Shit is Out Of The Horse...'
Plus! Sarah Elizabeth Hill, A Waking Up Sketchbook, & A throwback to Morris with a tiny squishface
Apr 24
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Jason Chatfield
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469. The Met Review Launch in NYC, No Kings March, & A New Jersey Comedy Sketchbook
Plus! AI, Eggs and Humanity, A Zillion DMA Episodes, & King Morris gets his own Throne...
Apr 7
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Jason Chatfield
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468. A Triple-DMA Week, Lectures on Tap in NYC, Emily Flake Is Officially Funny & Comedy in Michigan!
Plus! Mort has a birthday, MoCCaFest 2026, & Morris gets
Mar 20
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Jason Chatfield
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467. My Style Guide, A Graphite Anchor, Pulped Books, Margreet DeHeer, A Literary Reading at a KGB Bar, & AI Rulings in the Supreme Court!
Plus! My talks with Sarah Hill and Jenny Lawson, & of course, Morris.
Mar 10
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Jason Chatfield
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Is There Something In This?
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#61: Special New Yorker 100th Anniversary Episode: Our Top 4 Favourite Cartoons of All Time & Our New Book!
Feb 18, 2025
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Jason Chatfield
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#60: Loose Bees, Superbowl Cartoons & Caricaturist Protests
Feb 1, 2025
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Jason Chatfield
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#59: Discussing Post-Election Cartoons
Nov 25, 2024
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Jason Chatfield
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#58: God's Arrest Warrant
Nov 2, 2024
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Jason Chatfield
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#56: Vincent Price driving a Tarago
Apr 17, 2024
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Jason Chatfield
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Nice Followers You’ve Got There...
On the indignity of letting an algorithm decide if your friends are allowed to see your art…
Jun 6
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Jason Chatfield
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Marginalia & Meisterstücks: Backstage at the Comedy Cellar with Neil deGrasse Tyson
On the existence of aliens, the myth of the platypus, and why you should never use the word "marginalia" in front of the world's most famous scientist.
May 25
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Jason Chatfield
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Al Hirschfeld, the Algonquin, & Why I Moved to New York City
Hunting for NINAs at the home of the roundtable.
Apr 28
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Jason Chatfield
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ANZAC Day in New York
Lest We Forget (...what we have, while we have it.)
Apr 23
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Jason Chatfield
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Comedy Sketchbook: The Sounds and Sights of Hasbrouck Heights w/Chris Redd, Sean Morton, & Melted Diner "Cheese."
A 9 year-old Journal Entry from a New Jersey road gig at Bananas Comedy Club
Apr 10
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Jason Chatfield
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Apocaloptimism & Why We Should Probably Stop Letting Billionaires Grade Their Own Homework
The new film "The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist" was a real A.I.-Opener
Apr 7
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Jason Chatfield
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The Pro Human AI Declaration & the Regulation of Eggs.
33 basic principles to ensure artificial intelligence actually benefits humanity instead of destroying it...
Apr 5
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Jason Chatfield
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Comedy Sketchbook: The Sounds and Sights of Hasbrouck Heights w/Chris Redd, Sean Morton, & Melted Diner "Cheese."
A 9 year-old Journal Entry from a New Jersey road gig at Bananas Comedy Club
Apr 4
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Jason Chatfield
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⚡️ SHORT READS
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Eight Duck Salads with Gus Van Sant
A New Yorker Cartoonists' Lunch with one Hollywood's finest directors.
Jun 5
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Sketchbook: Stooping in New York City
...and the morbid pandemic-era sidewalk game of "Fled or Dead".
May 3
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Jason Chatfield
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"Hot as all Christ out there."
A small morning implosion in an Inwood diner
Feb 20
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Jason Chatfield
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Sketchbook: The Hats of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York
Happy Turkey Day! Put something on your head.
Nov 27, 2025
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A Dog for a Dog
Award-winning cartoonist Jerry Scott surprises the hell out of me with a custom oil painting of Morris...
Jun 24, 2025
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Jason Chatfield
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Kissing The Ring
A cartoon in solidarity with Ann Telnaes
Jan 8, 2025
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Jason Chatfield
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Sneaking Into The Good Room with Meryl Streep: A Wild Night of Bottomless Martinis & Parasol Churros
A Pickleball Player's Guide to Crashing a Fancy Fundraiser Party
Nov 22, 2024
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Jason Chatfield
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Upper East Side Story: A Cartoonist's Report
Substack throws a writers' party at EAT, sending in the cartoonists to document the damage.
Nov 14, 2024
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Jason Chatfield
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An Evening with Sam Harris
Ruminations on Sam Harris' "Truth and Consequences" live essay reading at the Beacon Theatre in October 2025.
Nov 9, 2025
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Artist Spotlight: Sergio Aragonés
Still proving that the best art comes from the margins.
Sep 27, 2025
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#22: Zoe Si
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Mar 5, 2025
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Jun 17, 2024
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#20: Asher Perlman
Someone You Might Like if You Like Jokes That Make You Shit Yourself Laughing.
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#19: Dana Jeri Maier
Someone You Might Like if You're a Fellow Process Junkie
Nov 1, 2023
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#18: Anthony & Lauren LeDonne
Two someones You Might Like For a Litany of Literary Reasons
Oct 25, 2023
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Someone You Not Only Might Like, But Might Be Able to Help!
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