It's a Hell of a Town

If you haven't been by The New Yorker's online presence, you should check it out (yes, I'm telling you what to do). You should also send me cash.

The New Yorker website has lots of articles and fiction and pictures. But I mostly just go for the cartoons. Each week they put up a new batch of cartoons. And starting about six months ago they started a cartoonist-of-the-month blog. One of their cartoonists blogs for a month about whatever strikes their fancy, as long as it has something to do with their cartooning (and sometimes when it has nothing to do with it). Granted, it's been hit or miss. June's blog by Michael Crawford was a definite hit (click here to see the blog). He showed his cartoons, other peoples' cartoons, pictures he took, paintings he painted, and even mashup-fiction written by Anton Chekov (not from the Enterprise) and Raymond Chandler. Starting this month it would appear that they've gotten rid of the guest cartoonist blogger and have started a more free-for-all cartoon blog, called the Cartoon Lounge, which will feature multiple cartoonists each month as well as guests and secret societies. Or so the voices in my head keep telling me.