Tooning from Home

...in which we are comfortable and warm

Amy K here, and let me tell you reader, I finally did it. 

I went online, searched for, ordered, and received…

A wearable blanket. 

It’s fuzzy, purple with white trim, a hood, and two pearl (plastic) buttons. In it, I feel like Little Purple Riding Hood, or royalty… domestic royalty. Because yes, I am Queen of this dwelling space. I spend all my days on these grounds, considering improvements (killing ants), supervising the staff (helping my partner cook dinner), managing the the gardens (watering my five plants) and sitting on my throne, content with my sovereignty (sitting at my drawing desk doing the same thing over and over.) 

Really, I bought the wearable blanket because I had a hankering lately to institute some new healthy routines into my morning. One of several possible routines I considered was: sitting outside for a period of minutes. I’ve been told several times that sunlight, or something, is good for me to look at. And if the global pandemic taught me anything it’s that if it’s under 70 degrees, you’re really more comfortable outside with a blanket. So the purchase was made. But even wearable blanket donned, I still can’t quite make myself go “outside” in the morning.

What I have managed is sitting right next to the sliding door while it’s open. (Yes I live in California and have a porch, the New Yorkers here might try this technique with a fire escape). So I’m not fully outside, but I’m close enough to outside that it still counts as witnessing sunlight.

What can I say, I’m an indoor kid! I like nature, sure, it’s very nice, and I hear it’s done some great things —I’ve watched several documentaries about it. But here inside, I have an entire closet full of food that stays cold while the rest of the surrounding space stays warm, a bed made of foam that remembers the shape of things, several rectangles that connect me to all of human knowledge, and a blanket I can walk around with while still inside of.

It’s getting colder now — wait nevermind that’s just California everyday after 6pm —well, it might be getting colder where you live, and I say you deserve a wearable blanket fit for a monarch. 

Tell me about your domestic life Toonstackers, what wearable domestic items have you ordered or innovated? What domestic routines and tips would you like to suggest for us to politely ignore, because it’s our home and we do it our way around here. 

Hilary Campbell

Nothing has made me more domestic than a dog. Not even my boyfriend. Sure he’s all like “I made you dinner” and “I did the dishes” and “Did you even hear what I just said?” but it wasn’t until we got our Labrador that I started to say things like, “Wow it’s almost 9 PM! How late!” and “I can’t go out because I can’t take the look in Margie’s eyes as I close the door” and “Can you take the dog out? I’m cold.”

Carolita Johnson

Because there’s nothing better than a plunge into domestic chores for some good old-fashioned procrastination!

Liza Donnelly

This New Yorker cartoon was drawn back when radicchio was new to mainstream Americans. I like to make fun of cooking trends, and this woman is the epitome of a self-made, wanna-be chef who just discovered a trendy vegetable. She probably read about it in the NY Times and is going to “express herself” with radicchio.  Personally, I have a love/hate relationship with cooking. I just don’t want to do it anymore!

Ellis Rosen 

Like my uncle always used to say: “They say home is where the heart is, but to me, home is where the gallbladder is.” You see, he was a gallbladder surgeon. This was his little joke. Later he was fired for taking his work home with him.  

Jason Adam Katzenstein

If golf is an excuse to enjoy a nice day, episodic television is an excuse to enjoy a comfy couch.

Amy Kurzweil

Throw a wearable blanket on ‘em and they’ll work till morning.

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ToonStack News Stack:

• New book alert! Sofia Warren’s Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator is out and available to order here.

• Amy Kurzweil teaches cartoon classes on Patreon! Next class is …next weekend Oct 16th! Sign up now to get the recording of every past class!

• Liza Donnelly’s history, Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists was published this year, and her free newsletter, Seeing Things is right here on Substack

• Listen to Hilary’s podcast What’d You Do This Weekend?

• Order Send Help! a desert island cartoon collection by Ellis Rosen and Jon Adams, out now!

• Be sure to check out Shelby Lorman’s newsletter, Please Clap!

• The same goes for Sofia Warren’s advice newsletter, You’re Doing Great!

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

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