December 18, 2019
The New Yorker's most-liked-on-Instagram cartoons of 2019.
Collected here. I'll just present my favorite from the group (beating the others because of the clarity and precision of the drawing):
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Nootropics are huge on the coasts right now. I was in Oakland for business over the summer and saw an old friend of mine and the subject of nootropic effectiveness and legality came up. He kept railing against the anti-Kratom and anti-salvia crowd, and that this was uncharted territory for mankind's productivity.
I said, "Dude. What is coffee?"
Maybe it's just me but New Yorker cartoons aren't as funny as they used to be. And do they still have, Block that Metaphor?
I like the red one.
Most of them were really lame, making the "I think I'll kill myself" game too easy to win.
I drew a lot of those same ideas over the years.
And, of course, there's this for the wingers...
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That is dope. Just became my new wallpaper.
If any of you are ever in Paris, highly recommend Le Procope. Originally an 18th century coffee house frequented by Voltaire (still have his table), now a restaurant.
They have most of, but not all of Louis-Léopold Boilly's Recueil de grimaces all over the walls, including his famous sketches of Les Amateurs De Café (The Coffee Amateurs/aka drinkers). Coffee was still a very strange drink in those times, and coffee considered a salacious beverage that fostered libertine ideas and insurrection so much so that some countries even considered its outlaw. The various 'coffee amateurs' are seen holding up their noses at the drink, studying it, smelling it, sipping it very carefully. They're quite funny.
Also, when you look at Boilly's 'funny faces' and those in the 19th century UK's Punch I think we'd all agree that the New Yorker Cartoons represent yet another de-evolution in artistic taste, talent, and topicality. What happened to us?
They were all funny as hell. I must be a secret New Yorker.
The one with Greta was LOL funny.
Lucid-Ideas: "What happened to us?"
Good question. TV? Government schools? Lowered standards to the NAMs don't look so bad?
Probably lots of things, none good.
>> Maybe it's just me <<
It's not just you.
I resemble that cartoon.
The first page of google images for "cartoon pouring coffee in head" has this joke five times. No filter paper though. I had a friend who had it on a coffee mug a zillion years ago.
It's right up there with the two guys on the desert island...
Most of them were really lame
The last few mags I picked up, I went directly to the caption contest.
I have a New Yorker subscription. I vaguely remember some of them, but most faded into oblivion. The one I remember was the one about the jacket that you can only wear one day a year and that you might as well get rid of because it's just cluttering up the closet. I own such a jacket. That cartoon really hit home.....That's what New Yorker cartoons do best. They illuminate the small, subliminal truths that make our stay here on earth seems so trivial and unmemorable.
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