#406: Beacon Theatre Artwork Reveal, Live Sketches in Bryant Park, Election Sketchbook & More!

+ New York Dice-Roll & Morris says Hello

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Welcome to issue #406 of New York Cartoons.

I hope you’re having a relatively sane and happy Friday ahead of this coming long weekend. Some people call it Columbus Day. Some people call it Discoverer’s Day. Others ignore it completely. Federal holidays are the strangest thing about adapting to American life; their timing within the calendar makes working life absolutely bonkers… I’m still adapting to the term “The Holidays”, which pretty much marks the season from Halloween through to Christmas and New Year, where everything is either a mad scramble to the finish line or a resigned ‘throwing up of the hands’ at a project that will inevitably be shunted into Q1.

New York is cold again, and we all know what that means…

Pulling out my jackets and coats from storage is like a paleontological dig each year, and of course, it means I leave the house rolling the dice on what to wear. Scott insists this one was not based on an actual marital fight, but…

A New Icon at an Old Icon.

The Beacon Theatre is one of New York’s most storied and beautiful theatres. It is the perfect venue for comedy. Jerry Seinfeld’s residency there is now as iconic as Billy Joel’s at Madison Square Garden. My friend Ronny sold it out again last night and asked me to do the promotional/show art for the big date, his last in New York for the year-long tour. It never stops being surreal seeing your work up on the big screens:

Pascal Campion does it again.

When people ask what the difference is between being able to punch in a prompt and get some incredible artwork and asking a trained human artist to create something by hand, there are so many bases to cover that it can be overwhelming. Where to start?

Well, Pascal Campion —as ever— has managed to distil it down to a pretty clear picture in the coming below. Click to view the whole thing.

Coming up on Process Junkie, the iterative process of creating the art for Ronny’s animated show poster/show screens. Going from the rough thumbnail ideas…

…To the finished art.

This week’s Sketchbook is a selection from a live caricaturing gig I did at a rooftop bar in Bryant Park this week. If you have an event coming up, book me now!