New York Cartoons: Best of 2024
If you’ve been stockpiling articles to read ‘when you get time,’ Dead Week is the perfect opportunity to do so.
2024 has been wilder than a Times Square Elmo on a can of Monster Energy. Amid the madness, New York Cartoons somehow became a Substack Best-Seller, which either means you all have excellent taste or we're collectively experiencing a shared delusion. Either way, I'll take it. Thank you.
If I had to sum up this year in a single gif, it would be…
For those of you hoarding newsletters like squirrels before winter, Dead Week is your moment. You know, that weird, liminal space between Christmas and New Year's when time loses all meaning, and you can't remember if it's Tuesday or February.
Below is everything I wrote this year. Feel free to pick through it like a ravenous aunt at a charcuterie board before Christmas dinner. It’s yours to enjoy. Nobody’s watching.
And hey, if you've been enjoying this circus of creativity but haven't upgraded to a paid subscription yet, consider this my subtle-as-a-brick hint: Every paid subscription means one less freelance gig I have to take, which means more time to write these newsletters instead of drawing another corporate mascot that looks suspiciously like an off-model bootleg of Spongebob Squarepants. Plus, it helps justify to my accountant why I keep writing off bagels as a "business expense."
With love, your pal,
If you’d prefer a menu list of links to browse and pick from, here is everything published in 2024:
A Small Moment on the Sidewalk Outside Trump Hotel on Thursday
'How do you decide who you're going to be when you get up in the morning?'
3 Hot Hours Stranded on New Jersey Transit with Livid Passengers
A Botched Audition, a Hair-Dryer, and a hunt for Pina Colada mix.
A New York Burlesque Show, A Crotch Muppet, The Stripper Police & A Belarusian Prison Guard
A New Yorkers Night at Rodney's (feat. a New York City Icon. Also, OnlyFans)
A Night at the "Moulin Rouge" AKA- The Al Hirschfeld Theatre
I hid these cards around New York and got the weirdest emails back.
My dog just encountered his first AI Robot Dog on the NYC Sidewalk
Nothing says "Will You Marry Me?" like a cartoon that says "Will You Marry Me?"
Paris Sketchbook #2- Christmas Day Orphans at Cafe Vaudeville
Sneaking Into The Good Room with Meryl Streep- A Wild Night of Bottomless Martinis & Parasol Churros
Thank you for making New York Cartoons a Substack Best-Seller!
The New Yorker VS. New York Review of Books - A Scandal in Central Park
Today's Daily New Yorker Cartoon- Halftime at the Felony Finals
We Drew every street in New York City on Our Apartment Wall.
If you’d prefer them all with wee previews of what they’re about, take a squiz…
A Small Moment on the Sidewalk Outside Trump Hotel on Thursday
Out front of Trump International Hotel moments after the verdict was handed down, a man could be seen gleefully scribbling in chalk in the sidewalk.
15 People and Things I Would Rather Vote for Than Trump...
When I drew this back in early 2020 for The Weekly Humorist I did not anticipate it becoming an evergreen series that could run in the year of our Lord 2024. How did we even get here? 🫣
A Quiet Place: Day One
There’s something surreal about walking out onto the streets of New York after having just witnessed the city succumb to a brutal alien invasion.
An Honour to Be Double-Nominated!
I had to check if a blob of ink had flung onto my screen (not the first time today.) The sequence of letters and words in the email seemed to tell me I’ve been nominated for not one, but two divisions for this year’s Reuben Awards!
Backyard Comedy Shows in New York
Over the past 17 years, I’ve done stand-up shows everywhere from the back of a bus, to a micro-kitchen in Queens— to a backyard in the Lower East Side.
MAD Magazine Finally Gets the Curtain Call it Deserves
The day I became an Idiot was the highlight of my professional cartooning career.
NYC Is 'Dead' Forever: Here's Why Not
Back in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, New York was hurting. It was bleak.
Paris Sketchbook #2: Christmas Day Orphans at Café Vaudeville
👆 Play this while reading. It was recorded on location.
The $1000 CartoonStock Caption Contest
Every month, the cartoon boffins over at CartoonStock.com run a caption contest similar to the New Yorker, Except there’s $1000 of prize money.
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The Morning After.
I awoke at 6am, blearily checked my phone, and found that the worst fears my gut had been warning me about had been realized. The man who blocked me on Twitter is going to be President. Again.
The New Yorker VS. New York Review of Books - An Asterisk in Central Park
Each week, the New Yorker team meets at the softball diamond in Central Park to play against writers, fact-checkers, and cartoonists* who work at other publications like Vanity Fair, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and several others.
The Night Trump Blocked Me on Twitter.
I’d just finished my last comedy spot for the night (and my fifth whiskey) and descended into the subway at West 4th. The first two spots didn’t go well, the last one did. I was on a high.
The Vessel. (Of Death💀)
It’s January, 2021. I’m walking Morris around the Vessel. It’s where he poops every morning, like clockwork.
Upper East Side Story: A Cartoonist's Report
This event was also reported in the New York Times on 14th November, 2024.
