Back To Normal
Whatever that is
Hey everybody! I’m back in New York after a hectic—and really fun- week at the Oscars. Waiting for my flight, I drew this man on my iPhone with my finger. His neck was bent in a crazy way. And the plane nose was that big.
I find the whole Oscar thing envigorating— the people are all so nice at the Academy. I am grateful for the opportunity to draw there for five days. All my drawings are in one place if you want to see them, on my Medium column. Or just scroll back in my archives here on Seeing Things.
Jumping back into “real life,” I’d like to let you know that I am teaching a course on the history of The New Yorker cartoons, 1925-2022 again at New York City’s venerable culture hub, the 92NY. It is four consecutive Thursdays, 7pm EST. You can register here. If you do end up taking this course, please let me know, maybe in the comments during the course. I will have time for questions after each class, I look forward to that.
Here is a sample drawing, from Helen Hokinson:
I will eventually cover modern cartoons, but this week I will talk about the early years!
There’s a lot of news I have not paid attention to while away. I’m hoping the financial stuff just calms down completely. and/or goes away. During the Great Depression, The New Yorker stayed afloat, it was actually getting very successful around then. And they did not publish that many drawings about The Depression. Here’s one by William Galbraith Crawford, 1934.
More tomorrow. Thanks for being here!