This is so good. He paints everyday foods.
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A busy MOMA day
Went to MOMA yesterday because it was raining. But who am I kidding, I would have gone anyway.
But so many other people showed up as well. They mobbed Starry Night, I guess mostly because it was moved from the fourth floor to the second floor for some sort of exhibit related to that era.
I found a wallet on the floor and brought it to lost and found. The lady there said, “Thank you, I’ll keep it for you.”
I said, “Don’t keep it for me, hold it for the rightful owner.”
She said, “Right.”
Hopefully he gets it. I didn’t really go through it, but there might have been a phone number, I didn’t think of it at the time.
This is the third time I found someone’s wallet. One time it was on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa. A guy left his wallet on the roof of his car at a gas station and drove off. All the papers and everything blew out of the wallet along with the wallet. My friend Victor and I chased down the papers and managed to track down the guy using a check that was in the wallet.
Anyway, if you ever lose a wallet, check with me, I might have it.
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Visited MOMA, again
Visited one of my favorite places again yesterday – MOMA – Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
My favorite painting, Starry Night, was crammed with people again, trying to get selfies of themselves in front of the painting, and I tried to get pictures of people taking images of themselves in front of the painting.
NYC has been very busy with tourists this week. Today is the opening of New York Comic Con, maybe that’s why. I’ll be at Comic Con, I’ll post about it Friday, subscribe to this blog so you don’t miss it. I’ll also have a story and images on our trip upstate to pumpkin and apple pick, as we usually do each October.
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Meet Hilary Price, cartoonist of the year
Hilary Price is known for her cartoon “Rhymes With Orange,” which is published daily in newspapers all over the country as well as online in various locations. Just recently, Hilary won Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year at this year’s 78th annual Reuben Awards, presented by the National Cartoonist Society – it’s like the Oscars for cartoonists. The winner is chosen by fellow cartoonists by secret ballot.
It’s a very high honor won in the past by famous cartoonists like Gary Larson, Richard Thompson, Al Capp, Chic Young, Charles Schulz, Chester Gould and so many more.
She is featured in 10 With Tom this week. I ask her where the title, “Rhymes With Orange,” came from and what her work space looks like, and why she likes to work with a partner, among other things. You can read it all here.
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Ollie and Jacomo in Paris
Ollie and Jacomo are back for a summer run. I’ve been getting requests and lots of followers on social media, which is odd, since we’re not promoting the feature, but people seem to love the wile rabbit Ollie and his buddy Jacomo, the hedgehog. The Jacomo, “I Live for Summer” t-shirt has been selling, too, so it’s time to bring them back.
I enjoy them because they seem to write themselves, they took on their own personalities right way.
The Paris Olympics start this week and by dumb luck, Ollie and Jacomo happen to be right there in Paris! So we’ll follow their French adventures while they are overseas!
I just started drawing up the adventures, and as usual, they seem to be writing themselves! The cartoons will be all set to roll on Monday.
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Is he today’s Michelangelo?
Saw this on CBS Sunday morning. A story about an Italian artist named Jacopo Cardillo, known in the art world at just Jago. he’s called the modern day Michelangelo due to his incredible sculptures.
One of his current marble pieces was placed in NYC this week, I missed it by a few days, hopefully it will still be there when I return in the fall. It’s called, “Look Down,” it s a sculpture of a baby, laying down on the ground. It’s in Thomas Paine Park, a small park a few blocks north of City Hall.
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Came to Miami to cool off
Glad to be home, I had to leave NYC to get some cooler weather – in Miami!
NYC was brutal. Heat indexes over 100 made it unbearable at times. This red hoodie cartoon reminded me of my favorite red hoodie, which I brought to NY with me, thinking I might need it at nights like most summers, but even the nights were warm this year, there really was no cool air other than the airconditioned places. I heard a weatherperson on tv describe it as the Northeast having “no airflow.”
I was living on iced coffee.
One day, I felt I was getting heat stroke, really – I wasn’t sure what to do, but I managed to get back to the a/c and my bed and I drank a lot of color water, and in time, I got back to normal. I wondered how I would get back across town, from uptown to downtown, as I waited on those roasting subway platforms.
Also, this year Manhattanhenge was a bust – too many clouds blocking it both nights.
But in spite of all the heat, I did have a lot of fun. A lot of my family from Miami was up north and we had good times mostly in The Hamptons. In the city I did a lot of my favorite things and went to many of my favorite museums, including Cleopatra’s Needle, behind the MET Museum and the JP Morgan Library, which I had passed a few times, but never visited.
Ate in a lot of new places – three Greek restaurants ironically. But I forgot to check out Maria Loi’s place, Loi Estiatorio, which I see on tv a lot. I like her Mediterranean cooking style.
I’m looking forward to cooler temps in the fall, when I return for NY Comic Con and pumpkin and apple picking in October and Thanksgiving and so many more things in November.
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Paul McCartney’s photos
I went to the Brooklyn Museum to the the Paul McCartney exhibit, “Eyes of the Storm.” They are random photos Paul took during 1963 and 1964, an important time for the Beatles.
He didn’t plan any of it and that’s what makes it so great.
I’m not a fan of the Brooklyn Museum, it’s impossible to navigate and they have a rude staff, but I went for the Paul exhibit.
Maybe it was just a bad day for me, that same day I was sitting in Union Square along with dozens of other people, and the rainbird type sprinkler came on. Hard. And it hit me right in my face along with wetting my whole right side from head to toe. Some stupid teens thought it was funny, but it did feel good in the summer heat.
On the subway a big heavy guy in one of those big ass wheelchairs ran over my toe. He backed up right over me. My toe is still hurting, hope it’s not broken.
And a chocolate Mister Softee dripped onto my new white sneakers. The cone had a hole in it. The guy in the Softee truck offered to give me a new cone, but I told him no problem. Then I saw the big stain, that looked like a black bullet hole.
Oh yes. On another train a guy comes up to me. Puts on a rubber glove and shoves it in my face. I don’t know what that was about. We were the only two on the car. I ran out at the next stop.
Just a random Wednesday in paradise.
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New York in July
Got to NYC yesterday. The city is packed. I’ll be here for a few weeks. I already got my Mister Softee ice cream, and it wasn’t so hot and humid, so it didn’t melt all over my hand.
This Thursday is July 4th and people have started their holiday this weekend.
It’s gonna be a long week, I have a lot of family plans. We’ll be in The Hamptons, Connecticut, and we’re going to The Who’s Tommy on Broadway this week. Plus a lot more things. I visited that Portal thing in Madison Square, right next to the Flatiron Building – where we can see Dublin, Ireland and they can see us live.
It’s funny how people are so flabbergasted at it and can’t believe they are seeing Dublin live, but can’t we do that on our cell phones and zoom on our computers every day if we want?
I’ll visit the usual museums – MOMA, the MET, etc.
I’ll take you along.
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Clamming
As you click back and forth here, you’ll see two versions of today’s clamming cartoon.
I heard someone say, “The clams are clamming,” and thought it was funny, so I used that, but then I guess my subconscious, in the middle of the night, liked the other version.
This happens often. I don’t lose sleep thinking of the gags all night, it just sort of pops into my head at some period and there I am, up at 3 am, changing it.
What I like about this is I am picturing these two guys on the beach in New England this summer. Two locals. One is walking the beach, sees the other guy clamming and asks him about it. The one guy in the flower shirt could also be a tourist asking about the clamming. I only say that because of the flowery shirt, it sort of looks like a tourist thing.
I can almost hear the seagulls in the background.
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