☕️ LONG READS

Talking with fellow New Yorker, Sarah Hill: Pulped Books and the Fine Art of Failing

A recap of my chat with Sarah about the messy, masochistic reality of making a living as an artist in 2026, on "The Login Podcast."

Mar 7 • Jason Chatfield

The Sludge, The KGB Bar, and The Rebirth of Print.

A Night Out with The Metropolitan Review

Mar 6 • Jason Chatfield

Plotting the Media Rebellion from a Hidden Bar

Why the lifeboat is starting to look a lot better than the cruise ship.

Feb 27 • Jason Chatfield

🔓 Unlocked: DMA#35: Drawing on the Edge of the Authoritarian Abyss with Ann Telnaes & Patrick Chappatte

"In an autocracy, the autocrat never picks up the phone. He doesn't have to."

Feb 23 • Jason Chatfield, Chappatte Cartoons, and Ann Telnaes

46:05

The Cathedral of Eustace Tilley: 100 Years of the New Yorker Closes at the New York Public Library Today

Wandering the NYPL centennial show, staring at red-penciled manuscripts, and realizing I am a tiny, ink-stained footnote in history.

Feb 21 • Jason Chatfield

DMA#35: Drawing on the Edge of the Authoritarian Abyss with Ann Telnaes & Patrick Chappatte

"In an autocracy, the autocrat never picks up the phone. He doesn't have to."

Feb 18 • Jason Chatfield, Chappatte Cartoons, and Ann Telnaes

46:05

Why Hanlon’s Razor is the Only Thing Keeping Me from screaming into a Pillow

There is an email you sometimes get as a cartoonist that usually arrives at 2 a.m.

Feb 17 • Jason Chatfield

The Future Isn’t Polished. It’s Fingerprinted.

I read the Stills Trends Report for 2026 the way I read most trend reports. With one eye, a coffee I don’t need, and a low-grade suspicion that I’m…

Feb 13 • Jason Chatfield

The “F-Word” and the End of the Joke

But as I read this latest piece in The Atlantic, I realised I have to stop being polite about terminology. Let's just call it what it is.

Feb 8 • Jason Chatfield

Why the thing that kills us won’t be a Terminator, but a chatbot that read a weird Reddit thread from 2014

The End Will Be Hallucinated

Feb 5 • Jason Chatfield

Sketchbook: Live Drawing the 2025 Westminster Dog Show in New York

So many good boys and good girls. So many.

Feb 2 • Jason Chatfield

New York Cartoons 2025 Wrapped: The Best, The Weirdest, The Most Beloved

Cartoons, road trips, hell gigs, dogs, robots, and the year you somehow kept reading

Dec 23, 2025 • Jason Chatfield

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