#388: Drawing New Yorkers' Dogs in Madison Square Park, Sidewalk Chalk Talk, Pareidolia Pete & more!

+ An Asterisk in Central Park, Aussie Boycott Comic, Tote Bags & Morris the bat piglet

Totes? (Totes.)

Thank you for responding to my poll last week— the results are in, and the majority of you said there is no such thing as too many tote bags. Bless you all. You will now be presented with multiple tote designs to buy for yourselves, loved ones, and total strangers in the park.

Drawing New Yorkers' Dogs in Madison Square Park

If you’re anywhere near Madison Square park this Friday (tomorrow, 6/7) I’ll be drawing caricatures of people with their pups 11am—2pm. Come by and get a free scribble of your mutt!

🎨 Once upon a boycott in Australia…

Read the rest of the above comic by David Blumenstein, which is ostensibly about last year’s Walkley Awards boycott (they were sponsored by big oil) but also touches the generational difference between cartoonists in that country. (I laughed too much at “I’m gonna go get the chicken.”)

SPEAKING OF BALLS!

Each week the New Yorker softball team meets at the softball diamond in Central Park and plays against Vanity Fair, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and other magazines based in New York. The tradition goes back decades…

No game this week. If you didn’t catch last week’s scandalous match report, you can find it here:

This week’s Sketchbook is from an image I saw on Judy Horacek’s newsletter.

While I do love the convenience of an iPad/Wacom/Xenselabs tablet… I can’t ever replicate the joy of using analog tools. I’m launching a new Substack called “Process Junkie” to explore all of the joys of the Process of making art. If you’re interested in that kind of thing, you can sign up here.

“When a bat loves a piglet very much...”