Cartoonapalooza #3: Just Horsing Around
The editor of the New Yorker complained that the magazine's artists can't draw horses. A thrown gauntlet if I ever heard one! WRITTEN and IILLUSTRATED by PETER MOORE
IN HIS EDITOR’S LETTER FOR AN ARCHIVAL ISSUE ABOUT ANIMALS, New Yorker editor David Remnick complained that, in his magazine, “Horses are rare, at least in the visual realm, and generally unsuccessful: no one here, it seems, can draw a proper horse.”
That disparagement includes me, evidently, because none of these drawings was accepted by their esteemed cartoon editors. But hell, horses are fun to draw. Maybe for you to look at, too. If not, just say “neeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiighhhh,” and I’ll resume drawing giraffes, instead.
OK, not horses. But horse adjacent.
BONUS GIRAFFE DRAWING
Just delightful, Peter!
Nice drawings! Cows are usually freindly creatures. I ruined beef for my poor husband by introducing him to a herd of cows - they all ran over to be petted and kept trying to lick him like a dog! He's not quite a vegetarian - he still eats chicken because he says they're "too stupid to pity," but he has had a few favorites in my small flock who get the pet treatment. 😊
There's a local farmer around here who is teaching some of her Scottish Highland cows how to be steeds ( and yes, the ones who are good at it escape the fate of becoming hamburgers!).