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We Are the Random Ants.

On Mo Willems, ant culture, and refusing to walk in a straight line

Sep 18 • Jason Chatfield

#473: The Summer Roundup: Muppets, Martinis, & Miniature Hot Dogs...

Everything I did this summer instead of resting, in 1 insanely big pile...

Sep 14 • Jason Chatfield

9/11 in New York

To live in New York is to live with the memory woven into daily life. It’s in the firehouse plaques, the fading murals, the names etched in stone. It’s…

Sep 11 • Jason Chatfield

Ten Australians.

A red carpet, two martinis, and 10 names worth saying out loud.

Sep 10 • Jason Chatfield

Sketchbook: Strangers Are Easy

Back to work, whatever that means now.

Aug 18 • Jason Chatfield

Sketchbook: Overheard at the Comedy Cellar

Eavesdrawing in NYC. First published in the New Yorker (2022)

Aug 16 • Jason Chatfield

Spider-man: Brand New Day- A Love Letter to New York, Postmarked Glasgow

The latest is the best one about New York. Not a frame of it was shot here.

Jul 31 • Jason Chatfield

I Officiated a Titanic-Themed Wedding as a Doomed Maritime Captain in Alphabet City Because Of Course I Did.

On marrying my friends on the door of a doomed ocean liner on Avenue B.

Jul 24 • Jason Chatfield

"The Man on the Trunk of the Tree."

Pat Oliphant, 1935-2026

Jul 14 • Jason Chatfield

I landed in America on the 4th of July

Coming to America (Republished)

Jun 29 • Jason Chatfield

472. New York Explodes (with boos), A New Yorker Knicks Cartoon, & Austin Kleon returns!

Plus! New Yorker Softball, High Line Sketchbook , and Morris is thrilled to participate in the festivities.

Jun 9 • Jason Chatfield

Eight Duck Salads with Gus Van Sant

A New Yorker Cartoonists' Lunch with one Hollywood's finest directors.

Jun 5 • Jason Chatfield

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