I am currently in Tel Aviv, Israel, on a speaking tour as a cultural envoy for the US State Department. I have been meeting with Israeli cartoonists and members of the public. Tomorrow, I go to Jerusalem to meet with Palestinian cartoonists. I will write about it all soon, and post photos!
Category: News
Pregnant and CEO
There were a lot of articles recently about the hiring of Marissa Mayer as head CEO of Yahoo. Why is that news? It is true there are still not many as many women CEOs as men, although it is changing. What got the media worked up about this was that she announced on twitter within moments after she was hired (it was quick) that she is 7 months pregnant. Shocking! Will she be able to handle it all? How do women do it? I am sure on her CEO salary, Mayer will be fine. Let’s just hope the media isn’t hanging on her every move.
Pick Your Own Lunch
Just a silly summertime cartoon. I love doing Sabrett cartoons, and have done a lot of them in my time. What makes them especially fun for me is that they are usually captionless, and I love drawing captionless cartoons. And, the best part: Sabrett cartoons are pretty much always about New York City, one of my favorite places.
This is a cartoon I did this week responding to the new immigration policy that Obama enacted last week via Executive Order. I write about it more extensively on my new column for Forbes.com, here.
Look Day for Cartoonists at The New Yorker
Tuesday is “look day” at The New Yorker. That means cartoonists go in to the magazine on 42nd street, ride the elevator to the 20th floor and show their cartoons to the cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff. Mankoff may hold a few cartoons from each cartoonist to take to a meeting with David Remnick later in the week. The two editors then decide our cartoon fate for the week. Then, most of us go out to lunch at a great little restaurant in Times Square called Pergola. This week was much the same except more cartoonists than usual showed up– I didn’t photograph as many as I wish I had. A documentary film is being made about our profession, and we just had to be there. They filmed us eating too. Doesn’t it sound like a fantastic film?
Dads Make Good Moms
It’s almost Father’s Day, did you miss the memo? How could you, what with all the advertising about these holidays. Advertisers must really be scrambling, there are so many changes to the cliches of parenthood these days. And in my opinion, all good changes. There shouldn’t be just one way to be a mom or a dad. Moms can be dads and dads can be moms. End of story.