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That one might also be hard to understand..

Okay, it's a toast with jam, and it's the jam that talks -- saying that it basically learned to fall of its stomach rather than back from the guy's cat called Murphy...because of Murphy's Law..see...?

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I like this one but the other cartoonists thought it was too complex--like the toast one next to it.

Here, the rat is the one making the announcement.

The 'gag' is supposed to be that while MTA is setting up this announcement system at long last it's not working super well and it still has loads of rats all over its tracks, who know when the trains are actually coming...

Too complex, see...

February 8th, 2012

Note: while it's based on personal observations, this is not fully autobiographical/representative of my recent/current experience. Just to be clear with respect to those I have, heum, "reached out" to -- most of whom have been very helpful.

My very first submissions (and rejections) to the New Yorker

These are some of the cartoons i got to show to Bob Mankoff, the New Yorker's cartoon editor, on January 3rd, 2012, for the 1st time. We had a good chat, his feedback was that my graphic style was "too European" (his words--he meant too weird faces, feet...) for the New Yorker but that i could keep submitting if i toned it down. Then I and the other cartoonists who were there went out for a 2-hour lunch ending with cognac, a tradition that has apparently been going on for 6 or 7 years. It was great. I showed my cartoons to cartoonists like Sam Gross, Mort Gerber, Sydney Harris...

Bob Mankoff sees over 500 submissions per week, runs a selection by the Editor David Remnick and they end up picking about 10. Some cartoonists have been submitting for years without ever publishing one. Those who "sell" one may do so once or twice a year - others more. Many cartoonists give up after their 1st meeting with Bob Mankoff.

I will submit more cartoons, which i will then post here after they are rejected...but i need to tone down that “European style” for the purposes of the New Yorker..

January 16th , 2012

January 18th, 2012

..and this is a voluntarily dumb cartoon about the anti SOPA-PIPA movement in reference to the official text:

January 24th, 2012

First cartoon of my 2nd batch of submissions to the New Yorker -- See Jan 3rd entry for details

January 27th, 2012

January 31st, 2012

New Year’s card for the Alliance Program -- between Columbia, Sciences Po (my alma matters!), Ecole Polytechnique and Sorbonne Pantheon University, sent out today (full disclosure: i initially screwed up the integral, and, boy, i have fought many, many, integrals....it just happened)

February 1st, 2012

January 3rd, 2012

February 7th, 2012

5 out of 7 cartoons as part of the 2nd batch of my submissions to the New Yorker See also Jan 24th and Jan 3rd. Bob Mankoff kept 1 (not shown) to show to the editor David Remnick, which will soon find its way to this site..

February 10th, 2012

Last cartoon of the 2nd batch of my submissions to the New Yorker --See Feb 7th, Jan 24th and Jan 3rd. Bob Mankoff the cartoon editor had kept it to show to the editor David Remnick, but it didn’t make the cut.

February 16th, 2012

February 24th, 2012

March 1st, 2012

March 6th, 2012

This is the one that what was held

When looking at the one Bob Mankoff said “sooo...

these are 2 mirrors getting married?..”

These are 2 submissions from the 1st batch, redrawn

March 7th, 2012

March 5th, 2012

March 9th, 2012

Yes i got my O1 visa! What does this mean? Well in January i filed a petition, with 25 letters and a 500-page portfolio, not kidding, to the US immigration to switch from a G4 (=UN) status to an O1 status as an (...) “Cartoonist-Economist” (this was my lawyer’s idea). O1 visas are for foreigners with an “extraordinary ability” in any field including the arts, research, business, sports even--Dirk Nowitzki has one for instance. The nice thing is that they are granted for 3 years and can be renewed indefinitely and allow you to work for any company/project in your field(s) of “extraordinary ability”. So yes, this is good news. Voilà!