I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes: In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art. I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:

So deeply weird.

Election Night 2024. We cut to a @thebeaverton.com pitch meeting. We are brainstorming headlines for Trump's second term. "He'll create 'The Patriot Games,'" I say. "Like the Hunger Games, but dumber." "He can't," my editors say. "That would break satire forever." We laugh. That's true. It would.

Happy mishmash, everybody! An excerpt from Sugar Shack, available at your local bookshop, library, and wherever books are sold! (1/3)

Ugh hate to do this, but I'm completely out of savings and don't have a new gig until the new year. We have rent and bills covered for this month, but nothing for food AND we need some thrifted winter gear for the littles. Any sugar settlers appreciated! www.paypal.com/paypalme/api...

Why are there eight dishes of mashed potatoes?

Can’t help but wonder if the army of lawyers those Globe reporters had to quadruple check everything for should have got some byline credit too. A devastatingly thorough investigation. 🎁 link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a4378ff...

From the archives…2022.

[...] Frog: whyyyy Scorpion: It's in my nature to sting Frog: ok but next time you won't sting me right Scorpion: What no I just said — Frog: Hop on!

“like you've got a subconscious lock on frauds because it's just more comfortable staring into a mirror with feathers hung from it.” 🧵

I have loved seeing this project come to life! You too can catch a glimpse of #Lethbridge’s Slough Serpent on a joirney around Henderson Lake. Thank you @ericdyck.bsky.social for brightening up the pathway! #yql #brightertogetheryql #yqljenn

New comic, because here we go:

Not even remotely the point, but this napkin really drives home the idea that much of caricature drawing is stopping before you add all the details that distract from the essence of the subject.

Beth? What have you been up to, Beth?

Quick reminder: NYC’s new First Lady, Rama Duwaji, is a cartoonist! www.comicsbeat.com/zohran-mamda...

Everyone: Bluesky will never be as good as the old site. Bluesky:

I firmly believe the Jays would have won had Diefenbaker not cancelled the Avro Arrow.

I will never forgive Danielle Smith for forcing me to reconsider my opinion of pre-2020 Danielle Smith.

I was a scrutineer last night, and I’ll tell you the system that is in place is brutal. Those folks deserve our respect. There are some failsafes, but having witnessed the process it’s easy to see how double counting can occur.

Well done, UCP. Everyone’s faith in elections counting is restored. Spare a thought for the poor election workers, who already hold themselves to such a high standard, being put in a position of second guessing themselves like this. lethbridgenewsnow.com/2025/10/22/s...

I just backed Care/Giver on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/car...

In the age of AI, outrage over torepaku odd to say the least.

pro tip, go outside and look at the goshdang moon right now

We should probably be planning for the possibility of Carney ending up in a detention centre.

Admittedly, Charles Rusnell weighing in on Al Beeber was NOT on my bingo card for this election.

I can’t be there in person, but there is an Eric comic in Alberta Comics Love! Congrats to the team at @renegadeartsent.bsky.social!

Calgary readers! Join us this Thursday 7pm at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social to celebrate positive love and comics. Alberta Comics Love is our new anthology featuring 50 short comic stories about love in all its unique, quirky & diverse dimensions can bring us. #yyc #booklaunch

And the #banning of #comicbooks in Alberta under the auspices of ‘protecting the children’ is even older - my MA research focused on Alberta’s ‘forgotten’ censor - the AB Advisory Board on Objectionable Publications and their anti-comics campaign from 1954-1976 carleton.ca/ccph/wp-cont...

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

Go read more of Jen’s great comics at jensorensen.com like the non-figurative Luddite you know you are!

You are asking a lot of questions that are raised but in no way answered by my t-shirt.

I should probably stop wearing my Forest Fire Vax t-shirt in public when I’m not in the mood to have to explain it.

Um, wut.

I suspect we’ll look back fondly on the foyer era.

Flong, fa-flong, flong, flong.

Archie comics were never quite the same after they sold out to Big Bike Gear.

Just the worst timeline.

Sorry, voters of Canmore! You are not worth a $30 stop at Staples for a new sign!

It doesn’t count unless you get your directions from your FIL and he tells you three bewilderingly different alternate routes before you can even finish writing down the first set of directions.

Happy tariff day, everyone!

Got to draw with chalk today at work ❤️

Poilievre has a message for the by-election voters. #abpoli #Canada

Wait, do I have to wear a tie?

Hello, Lethbridge city council… Maybe this, instead of police tanks and fences around parks? Just saying.

The sense of duty to be a rational voice with the ear of those in power is compelling. Hey may have underestimated the firehose of nonsense.