{"podcast":{"title":"Draw Me Anything with Jason Chatfield","slug":"draw-me-anything-with-jason-chatfield-7482418","podcast_index_feed_id":7482418,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/112132.rss","website_url":"https://www.newyorkcartoons.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/112132/c8c587b710dcd9367efab71ed4786bb1.jpg","author":"Jason Chatfield","episode_count":35,"summary":"A free cartoon in your inbox every week + live drawing videos with creative insights, along with hand-drawn stories that prove being a New Yorker cartoonist & comedian in NYC is exactly as unhinged as you'd imagine.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-04T02:22:20.478249+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/draw-me-anything-with-jason-chatfield-7482418"},"episode":{"title":"DMA#43: The Nooks & Crannies of New York City with Tom Chitty","slug":"dma-43-the-nooks-crannies-of-new-york-city-with-tom-chitty","published_at":"2026-04-01T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/draw-me-anything-with-jason-chatfield-7482418/dma-43-the-nooks-crannies-of-new-york-city-with-tom-chitty","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/draw-me-anything-with-jason-chatfield-7482418","url":"https://www.newyorkcartoons.com/p/dma43-the-nooks-and-crannies-of-new","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/191906841/1d4b08b0ff3e67edcdbe4ae08dfe3da9.mp3","summary":"If there’s one thing I’ve been banging on about this week more than anything, it’s that finding a genuinely distinct visual voice in the modern cartooning landscape is brutal. You need to be instantly recognisable. You need to be deeply funny. You need to build a world. (Oh, and try to make a living doing it.) Tom Chitty has built an entire universe. He is a British cartoonist based in Toronto, a regular contributor to the New Yorker , and an absolute master of the absurd and whimsical (okay, ‘silly’). His characters feature blocky bodies, wide stances, and an otherworldly charm. We sat down for Draw Me Anything yesterday to decode the mechanics of his highly specific, deeply funny brain. Here is exactly how he builds his worlds… The Serial Killer Sketchbook Young artists obsess over perfect sketchbooks. They paint immaculate, highly composed spreads and post them online. It is a complete lie. Real sketchbooks look like the manifesto of a deranged serial killer. Look at the horrendous s**t I just found when I flicked open one of mine… Tom learned this the hard way in animation school. A tutor looked at his work, told him to stop designing, and ordered him to just start generating ideas. he dropped the pressure of making a pretty picture. He started treating his drawings like handwriting. He now keeps a sketchbook on hand constantly, capturing raw, unfiltered nonsense. Six months later, he opens the book and finds completely forgotten, bizarre ideas that actually make him laugh. You can’t force inspiration by sitting down and staring at a blank piece of paper. Taking a leaf out of every great artist’s book , he walks to the coffee shop every morning after dropping his son at school. Moving through the world and seeing the horizon literally dislodges ideas from the deep…","meta_description":"If there’s one thing I’ve been banging on about this week more than anything, it’s that finding a genuinely distinct visual voice in the modern cartooning…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3779,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/draw-me-anything-with-jason-chatfield-7482418/episodes/dma-43-the-nooks-crannies-of-new-york-city-with-tom-chitty/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/draw-me-anything-with-jason-chatfield-7482418/dma-43-the-nooks-crannies-of-new-york-city-with-tom-chitty.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}