Eavesdrawing in the Centre of the Universe - Today at 1pm EDT
A live broadcast with Sneaky Artist Nishant Jain, from the most overstimulating intersection on Earth...
I pay a genuinely offensive sum of money every month to live in the loudest, most aggressively overstimulating city on the planet.
I live in Hell’s Kitchen, where the ambient noise is just a relentless, looping soundtrack of screaming sirens (and humans) and yellow Caterpillars scraping concrete. Yet, because my executive function operates like a squirrel trapped in a wheelie bin, I spend 90% of my time hunched over a drawing board next to the window, clutching a Blackwing like it is a life raft.
It occurred to me recently that calling this publication New York Cartoons is a bit fraudulent if I never actually show you around New York. I am just a guy drawing in a box.
So today, I am fixing that…
I am dragging the Draw Me Anything broadcast out of my apartment and into the absolute neon belly of the beast. I am going to Times Square. At 1:00 pm Eastern Time, I will be out there with my sketchpad, sitting entirely unprotected, surrounded by tourists having mid-holiday meltdowns and bootleg superheroes demanding five-dollar bills.
And I am not doing it alone. I have coerced my good friend and repeat guest, Nishant Jain, into the chaos. You know him as The Sneaky Artist. We have been in the Substack trenches together for a while now. We are just two exhausted immigrant artists trying to make this whole thing work without getting deported or losing our minds.
Nishant started from India and ended up in Canada, and I dragged myself from Australia to the US. Whenever we get together, the conversation refuses to stay on track. We will be out there in the middle of a pedestrian plaza, clutching our pens, pivoting wildly from the mechanics of cross-hatching to the deconstruction of Jacques Derrida, all while actively dodging rogue pedicabs and the smell of roasting nuts.
It is a terrible place to concentrate.
Times Square is a monument to sensory overload. It’s the birthplace of a million unhinged stories. We will be observing the absurdity, making horrific jokes, and drawing whatever you throw at us, live in the middle of the madness. Bring your prompts, bring your questions about philosophy or pen angles, and watch us try to maintain focus amid the mailstrom.
Tune in live at 1:00pm US EDT TODAY!
‘til then…
Your pal,
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Live from New York, it's Monday afternoon with Jason and Nishant! But I can't be there.... I'll be in my weekly, free, adult ballet class in New Mexico with a dozen other over-60 women. There's got to be a cartoon in there somewhere! P.S. I bought your book, Nishant. (It's more affordable than a plane ticket and less likely to run out of jet fuel). Thank you.
Loved sharing the feeling of being with you two in the middle of crazy NYC while you were simultaneously totally eviscerating AI and also sketching away! Very energizing!