Originally tweeted by DavidSipress (@dsipress) on December 30, 2022.
Enjoy other funny cartoons by David Sipress at the top and bottom of this post: Good cartoons teach us a lot if we’re willing to learn and laugh at our little foibles and neuroses. Included are links to interviews and articles about him, as well as funny cartoons by others and a short video.
A friend sent me this poem, I Worried by Mary Oliver, which fits perfectly with the sentiment of the cartoon!
Cartoons that make us laugh at ourselves are the funniest and wisest. Here’s one I found that caught me by surprise. As soon as I read the second line of the quote below the image I could not stop laughing. Even now, when I think of it, I chuckle to myself. It says a lot!
It was posted on Narrative Magazine‘s Instagram page. The signature at the bottom suggested Sipress. I searched on Instagram and found David Sipress. He’s another cartoonist published in The New Yorker cartoons. I’d seen his work before and think he is a brilliant commentator on life, pointing out the crazy humor in current affairs.
A Case For Pencils interviewed him about his work. They include a link to an audio of him talking about cartoons while taking a yoga class. They also embed a video of a lecture he gave at Williams College Alumni Reunion 2008: Illustrator and cartoonist David Sipress, Class of 1968, discusses the art of cartooning and The New Yorker.
Update: On March 7, 2022, NPR’s Terry Gross interviewed New Yorker cartoonist David Sipress on Fresh Air about his new book, What’s So Funny? A Cartoonist’s Memoir, (March 8, 2022). This show is posted in the Author Interviews Fresh Air March 2022 archive, available as: It took this ‘New Yorker’ cartoonist 25 years to achieve his childhood dream.
I’ve posted other cartoons, light and dark, that tickled my funny bone. This one by Gahan Wilson is another unexpectedly funny New Yorker cartoon—what this fortuneteller tells her client. And this other funny one tellingly depicts our obsession with the past and future, ignoring how to be in the present moment!
The cartoon at the top of this post on my favorite romantic movies is where we go to keep learning our life’s lessons. Towards the bottom of that same post I inserted a related New Yorker cartoon by Roz Chast that perfectly reminds me of Bill Murray waking up each morning in the brilliant little film, Ground Hog Day, but with a twist!
An astute and funny one by Alex Gregory shows us what social media can do to us. And the brilliant cartoons and videos in this post deal with cellphone addiction and love in the digital age.
Rick Hotton, creator of the award-winning cartoon Holy Molé, opens our hearts and minds with insightful humor. Speaking of interfacing with reality through computers instead of our own eyes, this cartoon make us laugh realizing there’s more to life when we’re truly present.
If you’re up for non-stop laughter, check out Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons of 2020. It’s in The New Yorker’s 2020 in Review culture section of their December 14 issue. They’re very funny and relatable!!!
This one-minute video from CBC Comedy’s 22 Minutes on how to deal with dietary restrictions at Christmas dinner is hilarious because it’s true!
Cartoon wisdom from Karl Stevens appears in this week’s print edition of The New Yorker. It’s all about learning to live in the moment. Turns out Karl has been doing TM for 7 years. Says it’s completely changed his life for the better, helping him focus on living a cleaner life.
Updated July 13, 2022: David Sipress posted another hilarious cartoon on Instagram about the frustration of trying to express one’s creativity.
August 2, 2022. David Sipress posted today’s very funny newyorker.com Daily Cartoon—what most Americans can’t seem to do when on vacation.
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