2 DMA's This Week: Cartoonist Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher & Jeremy Caplan of WonderTools!
Tune in this week: Tuesday and Thursday for a double hit of DMA!
Don’t Forget: DMA with the Legendary Kevin KAL Kallaugher on Tuesday, then Jeremy Caplan on Thursday!
This is just a quick reminder to charge your plastic styluses and brew a fresh pot of coffee. Tuesday, we are going live with the absolute master of political cartooning, Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher - and what better day to have two people of largely Irish descent than St. Patrick’s Day?
If you joined us last time he was on the stream, you already know why you need to tune in. KAL has spent the last four decades drawing for The Economist and The Baltimore Sun. He has caricatured every major world leader with terrifying, surgical precision. He understands the mechanics of crosshatching and political satire better than anyone alive.
I, on the other hand, am currently struggling to draw a pigeon wearing a tiny top hat. (I spent thirty-five minutes vigorously researching the particular felt density of 19th-century haberdashery. It did not improve the drawing. It just made me late to dinner.)
We are going to talk about the cartooning paradox we discussed last time, how to survive as an analogue artist in a world that is constantly catching fire, and whatever else comes up while we scribble. It is a little digital monastery for the easily distracted. Because if there is one thing cartoonists need, it is adult supervision.
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That brings me to our second guest for this week…
We are drowning in a frictionless tech deluge. Every week, there is a new platform to master, a new algorithm to appease, and a new AI tool threatening to automate us into oblivion. It feels like we are all just huddling together for warmth around the glow of our screens, trying to figure out how to actually get our work done without losing our minds.
That is exactly why I am sitting down with Jeremy Caplan on Thursday’s Draw Me Anything at 11am EDT.
Our conversation is going to be less of an artist chat and more like a tactical war room briefing for survival in the digital era. Jeremy is the Director of Teaching and Learning at CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. He used to write for TIME Magazine. Before that, he was a violinist. He is one of those infuriatingly talented people who seems to have lived three lifetimes.
But more importantly, he is the creator of the massively popular Wonder Tools newsletter right here on Substack. Jeremy spends his days wading into the deep, chaotic waters of the internet. He tests, breaks, and reviews new apps, sites, and digital tools so the rest of us do not have to waste our precious hours doing it. He helps over 80,000 subscribers figure out what is actually useful and what is just digital noise. His goal is to help people do what they already do more enjoyably, efficiently, and creatively.
Aaaaanyway…
‘til then!
Your pal,
PS. Look, if this actually did something for your brain (or at least distracted you from the creeping dread of your own inbox for six minutes), please consider restacking this and sharing it with your people. It’s the only way the word spreads.
