Hi, there! Underneath all of these layers you'll find the chattering teeth of your host, Jason Adam Katzenstein, your curator-of-cold. What can ya say besides brrrrr? Perhaps ugh. Maybe, ARGH. And while we here at ToonStack Toonquarters can't do much by way of controlling the weather (yet), perhaps we can warm your hearts.
I told myself that I would take a vacation somewhere warm this winter but then I forgot to renew my passport or plan anything. Oh well! At least my apartment gets good light.
One of my dreams is to open up a museum called “Women Who Are Cold”
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Snowratio: a snowfellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy (and snazzy hat): he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how frosty in my imagination it is!
Yes I am holding my hot water bottle right now as I type this. He is a longtime friend and literal constant companion. I realize now that he doesn't have a name. Let's name him together– you say yours and I'll say mine. Reeaady... Lysander. Wow I can't believe we thought of the same name. Lysander is my only true ally in the fight against the global conspiracy known as temperature. It is always too cold, it has always been too cold, and it will always be too cold. Except for all the times it's too hot.
A group of penguins is typically referred to as a colony. An alternative to this is "huddle," except for when they are swimming, in which case they are a "raft of penguins," and when they are walking, in which case they are a "waddle of penguins." Did you know that in the center of a huddle of penguins, temperatures can reach 98.6 degrees? The largest huddle of penguins is on Zavodovski Island and is made up of 1.5 million chinstrap penguins (which incidentally are referred to collectively as a biker gang of chinstrap penguins).
It must be very hard to be an introverted penguin. You'd be very cold.
Winter is a season. In my supermarket, however, it is a lifestyle. Cooling an entire store to sub-zero temperatures should be banned and in my humble opinion the real cause of global warming and absurdly priced eggs. I drew this toon as I have had to wear a jacket in the middle of the summer just to go down the street to get some onions! I look certifiably crazy.
Every year Winter encroaches into Spring longer than the year before. like a dinner guest who lingers like a bad smell after you've dropped every hint in your toolkit to tell them to skedaddle. All that is to say, a Spring dress is a Spring dress, whether it's 5 degrees out or not.
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Hilary is having a birthday show!! January 24th at Young Ethel’s featuring comics
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Amy Kurzweil’s graphic memoir, Artificial: A Love Story, was named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, NPR and Kirkus!
Want to draw people? Kendra's online class "Figure Drawing for People Watchers" runs this February.
Cartoons by Hilary comes out every Friday!
Check out Navied Mahdavian’s critically-acclaimed graphic memoir, This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America.
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