Wartime Boyfriend, Dead Hot NYC Mayoral Election, & This Week's Special Guests

#443: Plus! Ronny does my job, Premium Emily Flake Content, Happy Puppy Customers, Café Luxembourg & Morris gets his sassy underbite on.

Hey again, friend.

Welcome to Issue #443 of New York Cartoons! It’s the New York Mayoral Election today, and it’s a dead heat (also, people are dying in the heat.) As I’m writing this, my shoes are melting into the floor, and the sweltering city is slowly flooding with a tsunami of human sweat. The heat advisory warnings have their own heat advisory warnings. I’m Schvitzing.

Anyway… I wrote up my feelings on several of the candidates after drawing portraits of them last week, if you care to have a wee peek.

The Mayoral Candidates Ranked by How Much Ink They Cost Me.

Come see me do some jokes out my face, won’t you?
Last night I hosted Gotham Comedy Club and had the best time. It’s one of the best clubs in the world, and I’d love you to come to my show there next Monday, 30th June @ 7pm. It’s always an unpredictable line-up, with frequent drop-ins from comics like Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan. If you’re in town on the 30th and interested in coming, drop me a line in reply to this email, and I’ll send you more info on tickets. Would love to see you there!

Photo by Clint Hild

Drawing Live 11am Today with Beth Spencer!
I’m going to be joined today (Tuesday) at 11am EDT by

Beth Spencer

of the

Introvert Drawing Club

— one of the first and best Substacks I ever subscribed to.

You should come for the art and shop talk, but stay for the very cute antics from little Reggie. Morris and Reggie would be friends. I know it.

Then on Thursday, I’ll be cracking wise and talking comedy and art with my only repeat guest, creator of La Vie En Watercolour and author of Thinking In Watercolor,

Jessie Kanelos Weiner

.

If you didn’t catch my chats last week, you can catch the replays below. I spoke and drew with both

Mason Currey

and

Liana Finck

about all manner of creative malarkey. Take a peek below:

Anyone else deeply jealous of Ursula K. Le Guin’s daily routine? This is what I thought the life of being a writer would be… All I can relate to is the last part.

1. I went to see Paul Simon at the Beacon Theatre (Paid Subscribers will get an exclusive peep), and dropped in to my favourite NYC restaurant after the show— Cafe Luxembourg.

   

   The very clever Rob Wilson has redesigned their logo, and I like it a lot!

   Looks like it started as a sketch on the tablecloth, and turned into this…

   cafeluxembourg

   

   A post shared by @cafeluxembourg

2. I got to attend another great

   Substack
   best-sellers event last week —this time in some kind of absurd rooftop oasis garden in Brooklyn. It was tremendous. Substack throws the best events. See some past ones here. And here.

   

   

3. ‘Friend of the Stack’, Ronny Chieng tried his hand at doing my job live on camera this week… I’m disappointed to say that he absolutely nailed it without even trying. I was hoping he’d at least find it slightly hard.

   

I’ve been drawing people’s dogs into the new book. If you’d like one, just email a photo of your dog (or your friend’s dog) and I’ll send you a copy.

Here are some happy customers…

The Sketchbook this week is a drawing I made of the great Emily Flake as a kid. It was her birthday was last week. I gave her this as a gift, but the gift here is truly the coolest hair in American history.

If you aren’t following Emily yet, take a look at her hilarious work here.

If you’re new here, or you haven’t had a moment to wander back through the archives of profound genius I’ve shared up to this point, take a peek at the following scribblings:

Gary Gulman: Grandiloquent - When Words Take Flight

The New Yorker Cartoonists Centoonial Party

Last Call at the Brickyard: A Comedy Post-Mortem

I hid these cards around New York and got the weirdest emails back.