Snacking, Sketching, & Surviving Gastrointestinal Grief with New Yorker Cartoonist Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

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From Peanuts to Prilosex: An Hour with Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

I spent a very quick hour yesterday talking to

Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

—New Yorker cartoonist, comedian, burlesque performer (stage name: Anita Prilosex), and owner of what might be the most voluminous sketchbook collection in Brooklyn. Which, considering the artistic density of that borough, is saying something.

Hilary joined me for another edition of Draw Me Anything, streaming in from the roof of her apartment where she lives with Margie (her black lab who's more well-travelled than most diplomats) and Odie (a dog so fluffy he can barely run). We covered everything from her massive new book to earthquake survival techniques to the great menstruation war of 2023 that broke out in her Instagram comments section.

Longtime readers might remember Hilary from my “Someone You Might Like” section from 2023:

On Schulz, Snoopy and Golfing Californians:

Hilary's grandfather was golfing buddies with Charles Schulz. Not just casual acquaintances—they ran Pro/Am tournaments together, and Sparky would come over to draw for Hilary's mother and her seven siblings. "There were drawings from Schulz everywhere. Originals!” she said, with the casual tone of someone who grew up thinking this was normal. She learned to draw by copying Peanuts strips, which explains her mastery of negative space and line economy. "I just wanted to be Snoopy," she admitted. "He was the cool one. Dancing all the time."