Foodstack

A feast for the senses

I really hope I don't get put on death row anytime soon, because I simply do not know what my last meal would be. If I had to choose right now, I'm just so sure that I'd panic and end up eating, say, Lucky Charms cereal with oat milk, or an entire sleeve of Ritz crackers. But hope springs eternal, and today the sun is shining, and I am brimming with potential. So, to keep me on track in my journey to discovering my favorite meal, I've solicited some food toons from my partners in crime. 

-Sofia

Hilary Campbell

I'm writing a book about food, so I legally cannot speak about food anywhere else right now. That being said, it's almost time for me to eat every single snack at every single holiday party.

Navied Mahdavian

I drew this cartoon just before the pandemic, before many of our best eating days would be behind us. The pandemic has been over for a while now, but since I no longer get sloppy drunk and do midnight taco bell runs, my best eating days are still behind me. 

Ellis Rosen

It's hard to keep up with food trends. Used to be, a person could eat a fruit salad, no problem. Now, suddenly it's "too much sugar." This is happening everywhere! Bread and pasta is "too many carbs," meat has "too much fat," Soylent Green is "too many people." I can't even eat a pack of cigarettes without someone looking at me funny! I tell you, if it weren't for the sheer will to live, I wouldn't even bother eating anymore.

Sofia Warren

Food: what is it for? The question has been hotly contested for generations now. There's always a new think piece or scientific article asserting a bold new theory, or an old one, repackaged. Eventually, I got tired of the noise— food is for throwing at your enemies! No, food has no purpose, which is what makes it fundamentally human!— and, to prove what I know to be true, I just went ahead and built myself a house out of hamburger meat, because food is structural. 

Toonstack Newstack!

• Amy Kurzweil’s new book, Artificial: A Love Story, is out now. Listen to her on NPR, and join her on tour!

• Navied Mahdavian’s graphic memoir, This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America is out, and it’s getting rave reviews!

• Ellis Rosen’s DINK! is the perfect gift for the pickleball enthusiast in your life!

• Check out Jason Katzenstein’s Patreon!

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• Check out Sofia Warren’s advice newsletter, You’re Doing Great!

• See more cartoons from Ellis Rosen’s weekly Junk Drawer!

• Also! Hilary started a film club on Substack!