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Silencing the Court Jesters.
10 years ago, cartoonists were murdered for drawing offensive things. Things have not been getting better since.
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Barks & Recreation: The Book Launch Where Your Dog Is Actually Invited!
Today is Publication Day! Come and help us celebrate the launch of the new book this week at the AKC Museum of the Dog in New York City.
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Hair Dryers, Pen Nibs, and the 610th Cartoon: New Yorker Cartoonist Tom Toro Spills the Ink
DMA#22: From Rejection Slips to Shareholder Apocalypse: The Tom Toro Experience
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Ann Telnaes: Talking Musk VS Trump & Freedom of Expression!
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I hid these cards around New York and got the weirdest emails back.
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Comedy Over Tragedy: Austin Kleon's Masterclass On Creative Survival
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Sketchbook: Live Drawing the 2025 Westminster Dog Show in New York
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Kissing The Ring
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Drawing Dogs with Claire Powell!
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448. Dogs in Bars, Pigeon Mugs, & A Nun Taking a Selfie
Plus! Tom Toro and Hilary Campbell, Another Jazz Album Cover, Puppy Sketchbook, & Morris gets engaged
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Is the Art of Editorial Cartooning Dead? + Quentin Blake's Latest, & Millennial Snot!
#448: Plus! Come meet me in person, some Philadelphia Eagles News, & Morris returns to living his best life.
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Getting Humaned, My Road Kit, & Deathbed Comedy
#447: Plus! On the road again...
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On the Road Again…
What's my "Ride-Or-Die" Drawing kit for when I’m out of the studio?
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Adventures in Self-Publishing, Deathbed Comedy, & Why Walking is Running with Brendan Leonard
DMA#21: With Special Guest Brendan Leonard of Semi-Rad.com
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New York's Tech Influx is Real... Is it Draining The Culture?
It's a cycle as old as time, but that doesn't make it any less of a bummer.
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"Drawing is for feeling, writing is for thinking." A discussion about AI, Blackwing Pencils, & Human Consciousness with Amy Kurzweil
DMA #20: Blackwing pencil x Waking Up Surprise with special guest Amy Kurzweil- How Two Cartoonists Solved the Mysteries of Consciousness Using Only…
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Hair Dryers, Pen Nibs, and the 610th Cartoon: New Yorker Cartoonist Tom Toro Spills the Ink
DMA#22: From Rejection Slips to Shareholder Apocalypse: The Tom Toro Experience
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Tom Toro
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Adventures in Self-Publishing, Deathbed Comedy, & Why Walking is Running with Brendan Leonard
DMA#21: With Special Guest Brendan Leonard of Semi-Rad.com
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Brendan Leonard
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"Drawing is for feeling, writing is for thinking." A discussion about AI, Blackwing Pencils, & Human Consciousness with Amy Kurzweil
DMA #20: Blackwing pencil x Waking Up Surprise with special guest Amy Kurzweil- How Two Cartoonists Solved the Mysteries of Consciousness Using Only…
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Draw Me Anything Recap Post
Look, I know you've been waiting to catch up on these...
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Adventure Sketching, Pickleball, & Bus Rides with Samantha Dion Baker
DMA#19: Live from Brooklyn!
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4th of July on the Jersey Shore
I’d never once been to the Jersey Shore— all I’d ever heard about it was there was something called a Snooki and and lots of house-sized flags.
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Sketchbook: Live Drawing the 2025 Westminster Dog Show in New York
So many good boys and good girls. So many.
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Sketchbook: The Launch of The Metropolitan Review
My attempt to put words together about a new publication reviewing the putting together of words.
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422. The Annual Self-Portrait, Puking in Pennsylvania, & Picture This Returns!
+ 3 Hours on New Jersey Transit, Cultivating boredom in your creative process & Morris' sunny disposition
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#420. Rodneys Sketchbook, New Yorkers Comedy Show, Railing Against Subway Crime & More!
+ Do cartoons have to be funny? and Morris reveals his winter look.
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The Taste Gap (And Why Your Art Is Trash at First... But That’s Okay)
The Taste Gap: You know your work sucks. You’re not wrong. But it’s not because you’re bad—it’s because your taste is good. Let’s talk about that weird…
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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...
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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.
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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
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AI Really Is Coming For Artists
What the new WEF report tells us about the impending AI-induced bedlam.
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448. Dogs in Bars, Pigeon Mugs, & A Nun Taking a Selfie
Plus! Tom Toro and Hilary Campbell, Another Jazz Album Cover, Puppy Sketchbook, & Morris gets engaged
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Jason Chatfield
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Is the Art of Editorial Cartooning Dead? + Quentin Blake's Latest, & Millennial Snot!
#448: Plus! Come meet me in person, some Philadelphia Eagles News, & Morris returns to living his best life.
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Getting Humaned, My Road Kit, & Deathbed Comedy
#447: Plus! On the road again...
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Blackwing Surprise, E. Jean Carroll, & Talking Substack on The Illustration Department Podcast
#446: Plus! Brendan Leonard, Dexter premiere, ComicLab podcast in Boston, Rutger Bregman, Jazz club Sketchbook, Picture This! & Morris gets a donut.
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Philly Librarians, Independence Day & Christophe Niemann on A.I. & Drawing NYC
#445: Plus! The Gift of Fire, An Unfortunate Comedy Photo, Pickleball, Manhattanhenge, & Morris finds his new happy place
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New York's Tech Influx is Real... Is it Draining The Culture?
It's a cycle as old as time, but that doesn't make it any less of a bummer.
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I landed in America on the 4th of July.
11 years ago today, I started a new life in this insane experiment of a country. How do I feel about it now?
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The Mayoral Candidates Ranked by How Much Ink They Cost Me.
Adventures in Political portraiture for Substack's New York Mayoral Election coverage.
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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...
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Portrait of the Critic as a Mucus Factory: A Feverish Night with Dorian Gray
Sarah Snook's kaleidoscopic performance on Broadway
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AI Really Is Coming For Artists
What the new WEF report tells us about the impending AI-induced bedlam.
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Postponed Parade: How I Turned Musicians' Isolation into Visual Chaos (Without Therapy)
The process of designing a jazz album cover for one of my favourite musicians.
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Projections of Grandeur: Confessions of an Accidental Theatre Set Designer
Process: 12 years ago, projection technology wasn’t the AI-fueled fever dream it is today— but I got to push the limits during a show in Melbourne.
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⚡️ SHORT READS

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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...
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Kissing The Ring
A cartoon in solidarity with Ann Telnaes
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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
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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.
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The Morning After.
Elect him once: Shame on You. Elect him Twice: Shame on Us.
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Japan Sketchbook #1: Sunday in the Park with Charcoal
Eavesdrawing the patrons of one of Kyoto's Maruyama Park
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The Night Trump Blocked Me on Twitter.
Somewhere in a tunnel between West 4th and 2nd Ave, I got up the President's nose.
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15 People and Things I Would Rather Vote for Than Trump...
The Evergreen Cartoon I Never Anticipated...
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Someone You Not Only Might Like, But Might Be Able to Help!
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