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416. NYC Banksy Museum Sketches, Leunig Dies & Santa has a Brother!

+ Morris perfects his Baby Cobra

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Welcome to issue #416 of New York Cartoons.

Well, Christmas is just around the corner. I’m at the table with all my cartooning pals in the Manhattan Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society, crackin’ wise and eating chicken.

It feels strange that it has already been a whole year since this sketchbook from last Christmas in Paris, but I guess that’s how it goes:

Paris Sketchbook #1: Christmas Creatures of Bar 228

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December 26, 2023
Paris Sketchbook #1: Christmas Creatures of Bar 228

👆 Play this while reading. It was recorded on location.

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Duck Days are Over

I woke this morning to learn that Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig had died. In 2004, Leunig told an interviewer: ''I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people, immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe.''

I never met Leunig. He wasn’t much for socialising with other cartoonists. I would wear his artwork for a full month each year on my Melbourne International Comedy Festival tag. His work was very iconic, especially in Melbourne.

Leunig worked at The Age, part of the same Nine media group that fired me last year, forcing the retirement of the 102-year-old comic strip I’d been working on. Earlier this year, Leunig’s contract was not renewed in what he called a "throat-cutting exercise". I tend to agree.

I remember an interviewer during the Melbourne Writers Festival being shut down after calling him a cartoonist— he didn’t take too kindly to the title; “I’m a poet and philosopher who draws.” he corrected. It was an odd moment for someone who was so famous for drawing cartoons (sometimes very controversial ones.)

The loss of any cartoonist in this world is sad- especially those who have been putting this art form into the world for so many decades. Condolences to his family and friends.

New York Banksy Museum Holiday Pop-up

I was at the Banksy Museum’s* holiday market this past weekend, drawing people and their dogs. (*Yes, there’s a Banksy Museum in New York). A big thanks to ArtsClub for setting the whole thing up. You can see some of the drawings in this week’s Sketchbook below. Anyone who’d like one for themselves, drop me a line!

Speaking of Christmas…

I did a book with Simpsons writer and Producer Mike Reiss, which makes a great holiday gift for the kids in your life!

Sandy was having the time of his life in Bali. He was living the care-free island life, surfing, and hanging out on the beach with his friends. He was so content that he had almost forgotten about Christmas. That is, until he got a call from someone he hadn’t heard from in years…his big brother Santa Claus!

This hilarious holiday book tells the story of what happens when Santa’s sleigh gets stuck in the wet sands of Bali and he has to call on his estranged, lazy, fun-loving little brother Sandy to save Christmas. With witty writing by Emmy® award winning humor writer and longtime executive producer of ‘The Simpsons’, Mike Reiss and delightful illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield, ‘Santa’s Brother Sandy Saves Christmas’ is sure to be a hit with everyone on your list!

This week on Process Junkie, I take a look at turning down the volume to hear your own voice!

Process Junkie
On Turning Down the Volume to Hear Your Own Voice
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Nothing says "Will You Marry Me?" like a cartoon that says "Will You Marry Me?"

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March 6, 2024
Nothing says "Will You Marry Me?" like a cartoon that says "Will You Marry Me?"

Back in 2022, I received a note from a reader of my work with an interesting request.
She’d been thinking about getting engaged to her partner for a while, but said the whole—‘getting down on one knee in real life’—thing felt a bit awkward.

Both of them are in love with New York, and their neighborhood in particular, and never plan on leaving. So, she landed on a creative way to pop the question: to have a New Yorker cartoonist draw it. (As a New Yorker cartoon!)

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This week’s Sketchbook is a small selection from the Christmas pop-up market at the Bansky Museum in New York. I was drawing people’s dogs. And kids.

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I was click baited hoping to see some Banksy sketches, but this photo of Morris was the best thing that could have happened to me today. Thanks, Jason. I have 4 Banksy’s hanging in my condo. Same number as my other favorite artist, Chatfield, spread between home and work studio.

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So Morris now does yoga?

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I hid these cards around New York and got the weirdest emails back.
How a real-world experiment to 'find my rat people' resulted in some of the craziest responses from Real New Yorkers.
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Silencing the Court Jesters.
10 years ago, cartoonists were murdered for drawing offensive things. Things have not been getting better since.
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Sketchbook: Live Drawing the 2025 Westminster Dog Show in New York
So many good boys and good girls. So many.
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