424. Oh Mary! Oh Gary! Oh My Dog!
+ Morris is exhausted from doing press for the new book...
Welcome to Issue #424 of New York Cartoons!
I hope you don’t mind me emailing you twice in two days. I’ve been busy.
This week I got to live draw the Westminster Dog Show in New York, which has been an eye-opener, to say the least. (Also a leg-raiser.) Everything you imagine it to be, it is. If you’ve seen “Best in Show”, you know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t— do yourself a favour…
The exciting part was getting to reveal the thing I’ve been working away on for over 2 years now: the culmination of so many ideas into one big book of cartoons about being a dog owner:
I’ll be sharing my sketches from the show with Premium Subscribers later this week. If you haven’t already, be sure to upgrade now!
Huge Announcement! Cover Reveal of Our New Book About Dogs...
Friends, I’m writing this to you from the 2025 Westminster Dog Show, which has taken New York by storm this past 3 days. I’ve been live-drawing the show and immersing myself in the dog world even more than usual. This is my happy place.
This week’s Sketchbook is a sneak peek at the drawing board from the new dog book I mentioned above. I’ll be sharing all kinds of process drawings and behind-the-scenes snippets over the coming months…
The funniest show I’ve seen on Broadway
One of the good things about living in Hell’s Kitchen is I’m a couple of blocks away from the best shows in the world. (One of the bad things is stepping in mystery liquids when on my morning coffee run.)
So! I went to see a few different shows this past week; the first was a comedy wine-tasting show called “In Pour Taste” from a couple of irascible Aussie comics and a sexy sommelier. The next was an incredible show from yet another Aussie comic called “300 Paintings”, which followed the story of the comedian/artist’s journey into a manic episode that lasted a full year, resulting in the production of a comically massive volume of abstract paintings.
The last, and the absolute best, was a show I’ve been wanting to see since it was off-broadway with playwright and lead Cole Escola playing Mary. It’s called “Oh, Mary!” and it gave me a stitch.
Oh, Mary! is a dark comedy about a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Unrequited yearning, alcoholism, and suppressed desires abound in this 80-minute one-act play that finally examines the forgotten life and dreams of Mrs. Lincoln through the lens of an idiot. I couldn’t recommend it highly enough.
This week on Process Junkie, I dive deep into my love of the humble pencil.
Gary Gulman: Grandiloquent - When Words Take Flight
There are few people other New York comics talk about with genuine reverence (mainly because comics are too busy thinking about ourselves), but in the same breath as greats like Norm, Attell, Rock, Patrice, and Burr, you'll hear us speak of The G-Man. “T
I used to work at an animation studio and my bosses names were Mary and Gary and they brought their dogs to work, so this title made me do a double take.
I’m seeing Oh, Mary! In 2 weeks!!! So excited!