January 6th, 2022. I was not able to watch all the news coverage on the day, but have been reading about it since, about all the worries that our democracy is in danger. I believe it. As a cartoonist who sometimes draws about the news, I want to draw about…

Sometimes it’s quite clear when there is a first, other times it’s not. As a cartoonist who is a woman for The New Yorker, I am interested in those who came before me. We can say with some assurance that the first woman to publish a cartoon in The New…

Each individual cartoonist has their preferred things to draw. Some call them “tropes,” “devices,” “visual metaphors,” “cliches.” Frankly, none of those words fit what I’m talking about. I grew up an avid follower of Charles Schulz’s strip Peanuts, and he had a few visual settings he would use repeatedly. Snoopy’s…

The finale of the series “Succession” was challenging to live draw

I’ve live-drawn many things over the past six years since I discovered this digital form of journalism. The other night, I decided to live draw a scripted television show, which I did only once before during the Mad Men…

I love to live draw what I see and feel, and this is what I did last Sunday. …

This article was originally published in Persuasion.

I have been a cartoonist all my life. I began drawing when I was 7 years old, and my love of cartoons began when I realized I could make others smile with my pen. But it was the chaos of America in the…

There are numerous ways to get someone to laugh. I’m not a student of humor theory, I just have been practicing it my whole life, starting with an audience of one: my mother. From the beginning, drawing funny pictures was my way to communicate, and I discovered it was a…