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No more cartoons in AIRMAIL… (opens the original)
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Since the death of Sam Gross in 2023, the conscience of American gag cartooning has been , whose wonderful Substack is well worth a subscribe (full disclosure: Jason had me on his podcast, and I managed not to throw up or anything). Jason alerted me that AIRMAIL, which began life as Graydon Carter’s weekly newsletter/soft-landing from Vanity Fair, is no longer running cartoons. Piece is below.<a class="embedded-post" href="https://www.newyorkcartoons.com/p/the-handwriting-was-on-the-wall?utm_sou
Sex and Newsprint (opens the original)
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There’s been a lot of discussion about Gloria Steinem lately, and she’s interesting to me as someone who loves both the Sixties and the history of American magazines. Lots of posters have offered a link to her famous two-part 1963 piece in SHOW Magazine where she posed as a Playboy bunny. (The link is here.) In Steinem’s goodbye glow-ups, people have called it a forgotten piece of the New Journalism canon, and Steinem an underrated writer. After Part One, I didn’t really agree; the energy in Ste
Why You Do That? (opens the original)
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In the ’70s, I lived with a bunch of college kids. In the ’80s, I desperately wanted to be one, then was one. In the ’90s, I still was one for a second, and then helped an ever-shifting group of them keep a student magazine in business. Whatever its public-facing alibi, this was not as much a publication as an excuse to drink and laugh and (sometimes, if you’re lucky) get laid, which explains why it’s been in business for 154 years. That prolonged sojourn in the Land of the Late Adolescent laste
The United States of Standup (opens the original)
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The premise behind modern standup is the idea—first elucidated by Lenny Bruce but now an article of faith—that “honesty” in standup leads to a healthier society. Like “sunshine being the best disinfectant,” talking about something naturally reduces its negative effects. For example: the problem isn’t the sex, which is natural and good, but our hangups about it, which are sick. Here’s Bruce’s famous routine on the N-word (WARNING! The bit obviously includes the N-word), which cuts out before he r
Dear Mr. President— (opens the original)
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"It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."—NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman justifying space junk hitting the Moon. FOX News, 8/5/26Dear Mr. President—You probably don’t remember me, but I was at your beautiful Mar-a-Lago last October attending the Marketing Association of Southwestern Michigan’s annual function. Halfway through my humorous “Report from Emeritus Members” you happened into the banquet room to grab some shrimp. Nobody thought it was really you, which
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