“Since I was a little kid, I’ve been drawing rabbits,” said Whitney Wasson. The Chicago-based comics artist and comedian said that rabbits are cute and easy to draw, which were two ideal qualities for their early childhood doodles. “[The drawing] could be terrible, but as long as you [make] long rabbit ears it reads as […]
Tag: cartoons
Let us stare out the windows
Last month, I had the misfortune of catching the Lunchables bus. Have you seen it yet? The windows and doors are obscured by a full-wrap ad that creates the illusion of a stack of crackers, meat, and cheese moving horizontally along the street. I boarded the Lunchables bus and found my window blocked by a […]
Home Sweet Alone
When I moved into my first studio apartment in 2017, I got obsessed with the 1995 Jewel single “You Were Meant For Me.” In the song, Jewel has recently split with her lover and moved into her own apartment. She’s heartbroken, but she also digs having her own spot. She fries eggs and reads the […]
A genderqueer Bugs and a very sexy duck
Bugs Bunny has a luscious ass. We’ve all seen it—the way he goes from a stretch of fur to curvaceous provocateur with just a few outfit and attitude swaps. It’s one of the things that makes the character so iconic. There’s something so sincere about the way he’s able to embody a range of roles […]
The last idiot standing
Cartoonist Johnny Sampson finally got his dream job at MAD magazine. Now he’s one of the only artists keeping the legendary publication going.
Check out artist Taylor Winder’s new book of ‘grotesque cartoonism’
And then, while you’re at it, leave him a tip.
The Ladydrawers collective tackles “Sex. Money. Race. Gender.”
The Ladydrawers collective tackles “Sex. Money. Race. Gender.”
This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:
In-the-know Chicagoans tell us what they’re watching, reading, and seeing.
Homer Simpson, Don Draper, and other sociopaths
Adam Kotsko discusses Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television, his book on contemporary television
The crackle and snap of Roy Lichtenstein’s pop
The Art Institute’s enormous ‘Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective’ starts 5/22
Rock History Is Written by the Victors
Jackie Leven’s take on rock history from the losing side
“You can’t get a jury to convict a good-looking woman”
Gender and justice in Progressive-Era Chicago