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September 2026

A Gift for a Gift (Something you can hold in your hand.)
Send a friend this newsletter, and I'll mail you both a hand-made drawing!
 • Jason Chatfield
Paris Sketchbook #1: Christmas Creatures of Bar 228
Eavesdrawing the patrons and staff at The Plaza Hotel of Paris
 • Jason Chatfield
Quiche Lorraine on Pablo's Patio
An unforgettable halfternoon of wonder at the Picasso Museum in Paris.
 • Jason Chatfield
Caricaturing the Caricaturists in Paris: Then and Now.
Revisiting the "Artistic Hub" of Paris, 13 years later.
 • Jason Chatfield
The French Village That Pays Cartoonists in Cows
I’ve been invited to France’s great cartooning festival. (My French peaked in Year 9.)
 • Jason Chatfield
You Pay on the Way Out...
Two comedians in Paris, one relationship, and a pay-what-it-was-worth door.
 • Jason Chatfield
Exhibit A: How every essay you read here begins…
“The first draft of everything is shit.” ~ Hemingway? (Probably?)
 • Jason Chatfield
I’ll sketch your kid! (Because robots can’t.)
The AI knock-offs are coming and I have exactly one countermeasure...
 • Jason Chatfield
DMA #58: Paul Noth... He Tells It Like It Is
A Cartoonist Laureate on Draw Me Anything: Mankoff's first words, a homemade sash, and the most-shared cartoon The New Yorker rejected first.
 • Jason Chatfield
52:45
We Are the Random Ants.
On Mo Willems, ant culture, and refusing to walk in a straight line
 • Jason Chatfield
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