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Well, more than one of them do, but here's one I just noticed (thanks to L.C. for the tip!): What to Wear This Very Second, by cartoonist Emily Richards (that link is to her cartoons from the magazine). Elegant, colorful, genteel yet provocative:
Gentle Readers, let us start now: Be more strange. Dive off the slow barge of weather assessment and dog breed comparisons into deeper waters. Ask strangers startling questions, wear a fake nose to the grocery, do not go gentle into that good night wearing appropriate clothing. We must stop being so boring.
Amen to that. Richards also links to Marshall Hopkins' blog; he's another cartoonist at the magazine, and uses the blog to post some striking drawings.
People often ask me, So, so you like everything in The New Yorker? No, I do not. I usually like most of it. But not everything.
