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Ann Telnaes: Talking Musk VS Trump & Freedom of Expression!
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I hid these cards around New York and got the weirdest emails back.
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Silencing the Court Jesters.
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Comedy Over Tragedy: Austin Kleon's Masterclass On Creative Survival
 • Jason Chatfield and Austin Kleon
Sketchbook: Live Drawing the 2025 Westminster Dog Show in New York
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Kissing The Ring
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Barks & Recreation: The Book Launch Where Your Dog Is Actually Invited!
Today is Publication Day! Come and help us celebrate the launch of the new book this week at the AKC Museum of the Dog in New York City.
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Jason Chatfield
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NYC Mayoral Portraits, The Taste Gap, Mason Currey & Liana Finck!
#442: Plus! KAL joins Substack, Remembering Sam Gross, Puppy diarrhea, & Morris finds his favourite spot, which also happens to be the most…
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Jason Chatfield
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The Original Process Junkie
Join me 1pm EDT Tuesday for my chat with author Mason Currey; the man behind a book I've been obsessed with for years.
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Jason Chatfield
The Taste Gap (And Why Your Art Is Trash at First... But That’s Okay)
The Taste Gap: You know your work sucks. You’re not wrong. But it’s not because you’re bad—it’s because your taste is good. Let’s talk about that weird…
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Jason Chatfield
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Prison Shivs, Pigeon Blue, & the Art of Spoonist Forks with Chaz Hutton
Watch now (57 mins) | A recording from Jason Chatfield's live video
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Jason Chatfield
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Chaz Hutton
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Matt Ruby on Comedy, Mindfulness, and Why Algorithms Are Ruining Everything
DMA#13: Comedic Tension is What Waves Are to a Surfer...
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Jason Chatfield
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The 'Keep it Open' Cartoon, A NY-based Comedian & A Berlin-based Aussie Cartoonist...
#441: Plus! Ann Telnaes, Austin Kleon, & A Citizenship Sketchbook
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Prison Shivs, Pigeon Blue, & the Art of Spoonist Forks with Chaz Hutton
Watch now (57 mins) | A recording from Jason Chatfield's live video
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Jason Chatfield
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Chaz Hutton
Matt Ruby on Comedy, Mindfulness, and Why Algorithms Are Ruining Everything
DMA#13: Comedic Tension is What Waves Are to a Surfer...
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Jason Chatfield
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Matt Ruby
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54:33
Ann Telnaes: Talking Musk VS Trump & Freedom of Expression!
DMA#12: My favourite political cartoonist joins me to bring cogence to the endless insanity, and why now is not the time to check out of the news.
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Jason Chatfield
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Ann Telnaes
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Comedy Over Tragedy: Austin Kleon's Masterclass On Creative Survival
DMA #11: "I think almost 99% of people shouldn't try to make their creative work their job. I think almost 100% of people should have some sort of…
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Jason Chatfield
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Austin Kleon
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From Bad Stand-Up to Beautiful Art: The Nishant Jain Story
DMA#10: Why your heartbeat belongs in your drawings, On finding your style, & How to draw your way out of writer's block (among other Life Lessons).
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Process Junkie

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The Original Process Junkie
Join me 1pm EDT Tuesday for my chat with author Mason Currey; the man behind a book I've been obsessed with for years.
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Jason Chatfield
The Taste Gap (And Why Your Art Is Trash at First... But That’s Okay)
The Taste Gap: You know your work sucks. You’re not wrong. But it’s not because you’re bad—it’s because your taste is good. Let’s talk about that weird…
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Jason Chatfield
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The Key Habit of the World’s Greatest Artists
Plus! A big announcement of an upcoming guest on Draw Me Anything...
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Jason Chatfield
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What I Learned About Trusting the Process from Ross Barkan's "Glass Century" Launch
On the value of grounding stories in specific details.
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Jason Chatfield
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Artist VS AI: I went head-to-head ChatGPT for 30 minutes straight...
DMA#8: The Great AI Flop: Artist vs. Algorithm
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Jason Chatfield
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NYC Mayoral Portraits, The Taste Gap, Mason Currey & Liana Finck!
#442: Plus! KAL joins Substack, Remembering Sam Gross, Puppy diarrhea, & Morris finds his favourite spot, which also happens to be the most…
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Jason Chatfield
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The 'Keep it Open' Cartoon, A NY-based Comedian & A Berlin-based Aussie Cartoonist...
#441: Plus! Ann Telnaes, Austin Kleon, & A Citizenship Sketchbook
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Jason Chatfield
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A Chatfield Vintage Portrait, A Pulitzer Prize-winner, & A Writer Who Draws
#440: Plus! Morris gets all up in my business.
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Jason Chatfield
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Fuzzy Men, Dorian Gray, & Knitting Dinosaurs!
#439: Plus! The Umbilical Brothers, A Jazz Album, & Morris is obstinate for a change.
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Jason Chatfield
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Morris Becomes NYC Celebrity, Human Artist VS. ChatGPT, & An Aussie Powerhouse on Broadway
#438 + Alex Dobrenko, Adam Ming, Picture This! & Morris says hello from Lilly's Bar
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Jason Chatfield
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The Mayoral Candidates Ranked by How Much Ink They Cost Me.
Adventures in Political portraiture for Substack's New York Mayoral Election coverage.
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Jason Chatfield
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The Key Habit of the World’s Greatest Artists
Plus! A big announcement of an upcoming guest on Draw Me Anything...
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Jason Chatfield
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Portrait of the Critic as a Mucus Factory: A Feverish Night with Dorian Gray
Sarah Snook's kaleidoscopic performance on Broadway
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Jason Chatfield
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AI Really Is Coming For Artists
What the new WEF report tells us about the impending AI-induced bedlam.
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Jason Chatfield
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Postponed Parade: How I Turned Musicians' Isolation into Visual Chaos (Without Therapy)
The process of designing a jazz album cover for one of my favourite musicians.
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Jason Chatfield
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Projections of Grandeur: Confessions of an Accidental Theatre Set Designer
Process: 12 years ago, projection technology wasn’t the AI-fueled fever dream it is today— but I got to push the limits during a show in Melbourne.
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Jason Chatfield
Chatfield X Waking Up: The Most Fulfilling Collaboration Project of my Career.
On Sam Harris, Meditation, & The Most Fulfilling Project of my Career.
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Jason Chatfield
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ANZAC Day in New York
Lest We Forget (...what we have, while we have it.)
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⚡️ SHORT READS

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Kissing The Ring
A cartoon in solidarity with Ann Telnaes
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Jason Chatfield
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Sneaking Into The Good Room with Meryl Streep: A Wild Night of Bottomless Martinis & Parasol Churros
A Pickleball Player's Guide to Crashing a Fancy Fundraiser Party
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Jason Chatfield
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Upper East Side Story: A Cartoonist's Report
Substack throws a writers' party at EAT, sending in the cartoonists to document the damage.
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The Morning After.
Elect him once: Shame on You. Elect him Twice: Shame on Us.
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Japan Sketchbook #1: Sunday in the Park with Charcoal
Eavesdrawing the patrons of one of Kyoto's Maruyama Park
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The Night Trump Blocked Me on Twitter.
Somewhere in a tunnel between West 4th and 2nd Ave, I got up the President's nose.
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15 People and Things I Would Rather Vote for Than Trump...
The Evergreen Cartoon I Never Anticipated...
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A Quiet Place: Day One
A love story between a New Yorker and a slice of pizza.
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