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Welcome to New York Cartoons!
Stories & Sketches from an Aussie Cartoonist & Comedian's life in New York.
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The New Yorker's 98th Birthday Party
A recollection on the Eve of its 99th
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Sketchbook: Stooping in New York City
+ the morbid pandemic sidewalk game of "Fled or Dead".
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The Magical Writing Desk
A borrowed rolltop I called home for 6 years.
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Sketchbook: Overheard at the Comedy Cellar
Eavesdrawing in New York. First published in the New Yorker
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Paris Sketchbook #1: Christmas Creatures of Bar 228
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Larry David Hated My Caricature of Him.
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The New Yorker's 98th Birthday Party
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The World's Oldest Comedy Club.
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📫 WEEKLY EMAILS

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#382: Seinfeld's Movie, Airmail in NYC, Backyard Comedy, The Vessel of Death & more!
+ Morris
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#381: The Worst Haircut, AI Gives a Helping Hand, & Sophie VS. Jersey City
+ Vincent Price in a Tarago, Jason re-appears on Comic Lab, The Infinite Sketchbook & Morris bails on the warm weather...
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#380: I Survived The 2024 NYC Tremor, Total Eclipse of The Park & The 'Curb' Finalé
+ Your Poll Responses & Morris stakes dibs on his viewing chair
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#379: Vitruvian Dysmorphia, Doggo Brainfarts & Morris gets his guns out!
+ Sparky's 100th & A new logo for Andrei
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#378: A Crotch Muppet at a NYC Burlesque Show, Doggo Sketchbook, The Greek Diner Coffee Cup Mystery & More!
+ Donkey juice farmers, Messages from you, & Morris gets up close and personal
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🗒️ SKETCHBOOKS

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Paris Sketchbook #4: Red Lady Moses at Le Grand Rex, a Bathroom Emergency, & A Lovelorn Christmas Orphan
Visiting Le Grand Rex to Watch Aquaman in French on Christmas Day was an eye-opening experience.
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Paris Sketchbook #3: "Comfy Duck"
"Comfy Duck" at Bar Vaudeville
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Paris Sketchbook #2: Christmas Day Orphans at Café Vaudeville
Eavesdrawing the wandering Christmas orphans
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The 2023 Self-Portrait
Another year, another uncomfortable self-portrait
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Paris Sketchbook #1: Christmas Creatures of Bar 228
Eavesdrawing the patrons and staff at The Plaza Hotel of Paris
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🗽 YOUR SHOUT (Reader Submissions)

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🗽Your Shout #2: The Missing Wallet of The Lower East Side
A Reader Submission from "Hell Square"
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🗽Your Shout #1: The Chess Pigeon of Washington Square Park
A Reader Submission from Nazareth Rivas
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☕️ LONG READS

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The Worst Haircut Of My Life
Sweeney Blob: A traumatic run-in with the "Professional barber" on East 3rd street
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A New York Burlesque Show, A Crotch Muppet, The Stripper Police & A Belarusian Prison Guard
A Tiger Queen and a sexagenarian stripper on a Ukulele- What more could you want from a Burlesque graduation show?
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A Botched Audition, a Hair-Dryer, and a hunt for Piña Colada mix.
Another idiotic day in my life in New York, circa 2017.
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The New Yorker's 98th Birthday Party
A recollection on the Eve of its 99th
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The Sounds and Sights of Hasbrouck Heights
A Journal Entry from a New Jersey road gig from 7 years ago
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A Night at the "Moulin Rouge" AKA: The Al Hirschfeld Theatre
The 1400-seat jewel outside of New York's Diamond District
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Is A.I. Art Killing the Live Cartooning Business?
Keeping ahead of the A.I. Art Generators that are gobbling up my bread and butter is getting a little bit silly.
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A Decade of Zen: 10 Unexpected Lessons from Daily Meditation
They say sitting is the new smoking. Unless you're meditating.
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⚡️ SHORT READS

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Total Eclipse of the Park
I went up to look over Columbus Circle and Central Park to see today's Solar Eclipse with a gaggle of fellow New Yorkers.
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Charles M. "Sparky" Schulz 100th Birthday Wall
In honor of what would have been Sparky's 100th birthday, cartoonists across the country paid tribute to the Peanuts creator in their own comic strips.
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Nothing says "Will You Marry Me?" like a cartoon that says "Will You Marry Me?"
2 years ago, I received a cartoon commission with a twist... here's how it ended.
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A Fever Dream Encounter with Louis C.K.
A COVID-stricken escape for fresh air brings an unexpected brush with fame... or does it?
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The 2023 Self-Portrait
Another year, another uncomfortable self-portrait
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Sketchbook: The Blocked & Reported New York Holiday Party
My friend Ethan suggested I attend a podcast gathering at Slattery's Pub in midtown on Saturday night. Here are my blurry -and almost certainly…
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Jerry Seinfeld is doing a movie about Pop Tarts.
He dropped in to Gotham tonight to do some new material before leaving a little nugget on stage.
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Subway Sketchbook #1: Doggy Bags of the MTA
The Rule-Bending Heroes of the New York Subway
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🎙️COMEDY

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Backyard Comedy Shows in New York
When New York sees a space for chairs and a mic, best believe it'll turn into a pop-up comedy show.
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Jason Chatfield
A Botched Audition, a Hair-Dryer, and a hunt for Piña Colada mix.
Another idiotic day in my life in New York, circa 2017.
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The Sounds and Sights of Hasbrouck Heights
A Journal Entry from a New Jersey road gig from 7 years ago
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The World's Oldest Comedy Club.
Dangerfields might have been a bit of a shithole, but it was MY shithole.
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Larry David Hated My Caricature of Him.
"Katie Couric wants you to draw a caricature of Larry David for the wall at Sardi's. She would like to present it to him at the restaurant, live on her…
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From Maspeth to Manchester
My third-favourite Bosnian comedian booked a comedy show Friday night in the middle of a Ukrainian restaurant in Maspeth.
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