My Ten Most Whimsical Drawings of 2023

World Wide Whimsy Incorporated (President and Chairman of the Board: me) ranks my year's visual hijinks from ten to one. Can you stand the suspense? WRITTEN and ILLUSTRATED by PETER MOORE

OVER THE MOST RECENT 363 DAYS, I might have been obsessing over threats to democracy, the overheating of our planet, or wars in incendiary places like Ukraine and the Middle East. Instead, I was completing 643 drawings for publication in the Colorado Sun, Front Range NPR, Backpacker, and here on my substack. That’s a lot of whimsy, given the multiple cliffs our species ran toward, lemming like, in the past year. I guess I needed some distraction.

Maybe you did, too?

That might account for the astonishing fact that, when I made my first post of 2023, I had 394 subscribers to this substack. As of today, I have 2,843. So I guess the rest of you are craving a little distraction, as well?

As I was reading way-too-many year-in-review pieces in recent weeks, it occurred to me that I too needed a wrap up, to chart my heights of whimsy in 2023. May it provide a leap into even greater leaps of imagination for me in 2024, so I can ignore, refashion, or redraw all of that troubling reality into s…