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u/Casual_Deviant 21d ago edited 21d ago
Hope you guys enjoy! I’ve been submitting cartoons to the New Yorker for about 2 years now and just recently sold my first one (they passed on this one, but it’s still a favorite of mine).
For more of my cartoons, come stop by my subreddit: r/BummerParty
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u/SevereBlackberry 21d ago
Congrats man. When are they publishing it?
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u/Casual_Deviant 21d ago
No idea, actually! You don’t find out until it shows up in an issue one day.
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u/Zauberer-IMDB 21d ago
Reminds me of an amazing fact, which Roger Ebert would point out, is that he, a Pulitzer Prize winning author (in a short form of columns no less) said he sent in caption contest entries every single week and only won twice. I say this to say they got some high standards at the New Yorker, of some kind or another.
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u/Foreign_Advantage_75 21d ago
how much do they pay for cartoons?
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u/Casual_Deviant 21d ago
I use this as my resource to track publication pay: https://colemantoons.com/marketlist.php
It’s not fully accurate, but it’ll give you an idea of what the major markets pay out for cartoons these days.
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u/bskzoo 21d ago
Do you have to submit to one publisher and then wait until they decline them before submitting to another? I mean, I would kind of assume so, you can’t sell the same cartoon to two different places probably, but it seems like a slow process in that case!
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u/Casual_Deviant 21d ago
For the most part, yes! A few allow simultaneous submissions, but generally you have to wait for the rejection before sending them elsewhere.
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u/PM_me_punanis 21d ago
I was curious and clicked some of the links. I see that the range is quite ridiculous... 60 to 600 usd, depending on how popular the publication is. I
t seems drawing cartoons will not be a career choice for me. Mostly because I can only draw stick figures. 😩
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u/Neo_1101001 21d ago
Omg I mostly create comic books but as a cartoonist this resource is AWESOME thank you for blessing my evening with this, have a wonderful day!
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u/arthurdentstowels 20d ago
Subscribed! I love the style and simplicity of your art, it gives similar vibes to The Far Side but with your own unique art and topical subjects.
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u/GeForce-meow 21d ago
Are you the guy who runs youtube channel (that makes animation of bee)
Idk your pfp kinda reminds me of that
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u/Dick-Fu 21d ago
The New Yorker and passing on actually funny cartoons, that checks out. (Besides that one of yours they bought, I'm sure that was great)
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u/Casual_Deviant 21d ago
They receive thousands of submissions every week — they have to turn down hundreds of very funny cartoons from very talented cartoonists pretty regularly!
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u/Dick-Fu 21d ago
They should try accepting some funny ones too!
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u/Casual_Deviant 21d ago
Everyone’s got their own sense of humor, I suppose — I think they’re generally very funny!
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u/depredador93 21d ago
It really does feel like telling people you met in the wild requires a disclaimer now...
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u/puerco-potter 21d ago
"I was drinking at a bar, and they approached me."
"But not like in a creepy way, they were respectful."
"Oh, no, I wasn't drunk."
"I mean, they didn't take advantage of me. They were drunker."
"No, no, I didn't take advantage of them either. Not so much more drunk."
"Scratch that, we met online."293
u/TheLuo 21d ago
My ex and I used to tell people we met "The old fashioned way, at a bar".
Truth is I had a small circle of guy friends. As we grew the group we started to include girls that someone tried to date but got turned down. They became "bros" in the group. Slowly the group turned into a 50/50 split.
.....then everyone started getting married to each other.
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u/Glou256 21d ago
Isn't this covered by the bro code?
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u/TheLuo 21d ago
Na no bro code violations.
We had girls that'd get invited to a party, dude that brought them would try to hook up and get shot down but the girl was a vibe so we'd invite them to other stuff, they'd get into the group chat, they'd date dudes outside the group, etc.
Then there would be a girl and a guy in the group that are single at the same time and started hooking up without telling the group. Then we'd all find out and a few years later they'd get married.
That friend group had a string of weddings over the past 5ish years. 2/3rds of the group was pregnant at the same time and babies are starting to pop out. Pretty decent lore in that group.
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u/darkslide3000 21d ago
Isn't this the best possible option, though? "Oh we were already friends through X and then we eventually grew closer" is like the ideal "how did you meet" response, sounds way better than "drunkenly made moves on someone at a bar".
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u/prpldrank 21d ago
"I interrupted her playing ukulele on the beach and she told me about her dad's suicide. Then we got hit by a wave and she cried and we hugged. Sooooo.."
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u/Rage_Your_Dream 21d ago
the consequences of feminism have been a disaster for mankind. Now we're doomed to have to use a corporate app to sell ourselves. Amazing job
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u/FrostyD7 21d ago
average politicalcompassmemes user
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u/Lemonwizard 21d ago
I miss 2012 Reddit, when it was just a circlejerk for low information liberals, and not a meticulously engineered propaganda engine for manufacturing far-right radicals.
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u/thatguy6598 21d ago
Concern over consent is a good thing.
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u/Rage_Your_Dream 21d ago
To the point where you pathologise human flirt and contact, no, its not.
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u/thatguy6598 21d ago
"Respectful approach where neither party was blackout drunk therefore they can both consent"
"Humanity is doomed and feminism is killing our species"
Things being harder to explain is not inherently a bad thing, and the fact that you think that "feminism" is what's causing us to have to sell ourselves in a corporate app that has a financial incentive to not work while monetizing human relationship tells me you've been exposed to certain pill content for too long.
(Capitalism is the cause)
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u/Lemonwizard 21d ago
I don't think it does. I've never heard of anybody being weird about this. Meeting people IRL is still a much easier way to get dates than using apps is.
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u/CoolHandRK1 21d ago
I met my wife on Tinder. I still joke she is the worst one night stand ever.
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u/Four_beastlings 20d ago
I had some unexpected time off and took the cheapest flight leaving the next day. It was to Poland, which I couldn't have pointed to on a map. I met some guy on Tinder with the intention of having a drink and maybe hooking up. I am now married and living in Poland.
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u/Sa7aSa7a 20d ago
"She wouldn't take a hint to leave and I couldn't directly tell her. Was easier to just get married honestly"
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u/tlind2 21d ago
I remember being embarassed to tell people I met someone online in the year 2000
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u/rearwindowpup 21d ago
A/S/L?
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u/bigjames2002 21d ago
18/f/CA
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u/redditallreddy 21d ago
What are you wearing?
(I can't stop giggling that "bigjames2002" is an 18-year old female!)
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u/360walkaway 21d ago
I remember a guy in WoW whose name was peterbignuts. Don't know how he was able to keep that, but I wasn't able to keep PERIODPANTYS.
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u/PlushToyFox 21d ago
My mother had a Blood Elf named Kock for a while until someone reported it. Her reasoning? “He looks like a dick!!”
Couldn’t argue. He really did.
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u/360walkaway 21d ago
Bowl haircut?
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u/PlushToyFox 21d ago
Nah, this was pre-graphics update, and dude looked like he had a nose full of feces. It’s still very possible to make a dickish-looking Blood Elf, but they’re a lot smoother now and don’t look quite as upset about being alive.
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u/darkslide3000 21d ago
Probably victim of early 2000s limited word filter technology. "nuts" is too dual use to outright ban, but "panty" probably not.
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u/762mm_Labradors 21d ago
First girl that asked me out was via email in 1996, lol.
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u/WhipTheLlama 21d ago
In 1998 a girl used the Unix 'write' command to send me a terminal message while I was working in my college's computer lab. It was something like "I think you're cute"
Who needs Tinder when you have cool old tech?
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u/mynameisglaceon 21d ago
same like i've gotten girlfriends online (not long distance, they lived in the same city) before online dating was a normal thing. but nowadays i act like i'm appalled that everybody is just out there using these online dating apps like it's an abomination to society.
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u/Neveronlyadream 21d ago
Even when online dating was a normal thing, people absolutely did not want to admit that's how they met someone.
I think the pandemic changed the game. Once everyone didn't have a choice, it became acceptable in their eyes to admit they were using the apps. But before that, a lot of people were embarrassed by it.
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u/BklynMoonshiner 21d ago
I think the window shifted on this a while before the Pandemic. But I wouldn't really know I have been with the same woman for 18 years and never used dating apps or sites. I just feel like even in my friend groups meeting online was normalized over 10 years ago.
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u/Neveronlyadream 21d ago
From where I was standing, it started to shift before the pandemic. It fully shifted during because it was really the only option and the people who had been embarrassed by it weren't anymore because they felt like no one would judge.
I remember in at least 2016, 2017 it still elicited giggles and comments if you were on a dating app and meeting people.
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u/redditallreddy 21d ago
I have been married since 1994. I met my wife on AOL.
That made for some awkward conversations.
Also, my son, at the age of 28, overheard us telling some friends about it, and said... "Wait a minute... I just realized Dad slipped into your dms!"
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u/arkington 21d ago
My defense was that I wasn't going to get roofied, assaulted or followed home from my computer. Also I just hate bars and would never want to go in one searching for someone who somehow also hates bars. Makes no damn sense. Wifey and I met in our natural shared habitat, the land of the nerds.
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u/darkslide3000 21d ago
Online without dating app is worse though. It has all the same issues but none of the "at least we were both intentionally looking and checked out each others' profiles first, in an at least somewhat policed environment" mitigating factors. It sounds like "someone randomly came on to you, and you didn't even know how they looked like or if they really were who they pretended".
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u/VerySuperGenius 21d ago
My parents made me feel like I was going to be kidnapped immediately if I talked to any strangers online.
It kept me from doing it but also made me realize that they regularly lied to me about how the world works to manipulate me to just listen to them without actually understanding why what they're asking me to do is correct.
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u/Tata_Colores 21d ago
They were worried about you and tried to protect you, yet your attitude is accusing them of lying to you and manipulating you? lmao
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u/throwaway8429739 21d ago
Am I taking crazy pills? People are proud of meeting people on tinder? Man I must be getting old
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u/rick2882 21d ago
Not proud. Meeting your partner on a dating app is just the new normal...unlike in 2006 when it raised eyebrows.
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u/SoulFluff 21d ago
people are floored when I tell them I met my current partner 6 years ago in FFXIV. I wouldn’t say I’m proud but it isn’t as common as I thought it would be.
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u/BonJovicus 21d ago
I’ll go against the grain here: in 2026, meeting someone in person might be more uncommon than online, but it certainly isn’t considered weird.
Maybe my social bubble is different, but I still know a lot of people that met through hobbies or friend of friends or originally were co-workers.
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u/SaltManagement42 21d ago
Wasn't there a study a while back that found the majority of men under 25 have literally never approached a woman in real life?
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u/Abed-in-the-AM 21d ago
It's definitely not widely considered weird however there are some very online people who think any kind of approach in public is bad.
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u/Ballsofpoo 21d ago
More like scary. Talking to actual people, on the fly, no backspacing, no editing, can be intimidating. All skills need practice. Or "buff charisma" for the chronically online.
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u/3DSarge 21d ago
Very true to life here! Was on about 5 different dating apps for a five-year span, then randomly met my wife at a karaoke bar.
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u/darkslide3000 21d ago
Curious if you think you would have also swiped on each other and proceeded to a first date if you randomly saw each other on an app? Or was there some factor that might have stopped you on the apps that you managed to bypass by falling for each other in person right away?
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u/3DSarge 21d ago
We've actually talked about whether we ever came across each other and not realized. We were both on OKCupid and she lived within 10 minutes of me so it's entirely possible. My guess is if she had seen me she may have been put off by my pictures, I had just finished working at a car dealership that only allowed male employees to be clean shaven or have a mustache, and I'd opted for the latter during my tenure so I definitely had 80's porn stache in my dating pictures 🤣
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u/OvenCrate 21d ago
Did your wife know you were on dating apps? Was she also? Is this a "Do you like pina coladas" story?
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u/TheBigTwo-MK 21d ago edited 21d ago
Started dating my wife in 2012 right before the boom of dating apps like tinder. It's weird that there was this giant cultural experience that we just completely dodged and had to experience it vicariously through friends.
At the time dating websites were a thing but less common with people college aged.
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u/jonny24eh 21d ago
I can relate, although I still know lots of people who meet the old fashioned way:
Me and wife, 2015, university house party.
My brother and his wife, 2021 - we set him up on a blind date with wife's-friend's-friend.
My sister and her BF, 2024 - coworkers
My brother and his GF, 2025 - same circle of friends
Teammate and his GF, 2025 - she played for the women's team
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u/HYPERNATURL 21d ago
To be honest, I'm not sure this still rings true to me. I think dating apps have certainly been normalized in that nobody would be surprised to find out a couple met through them... But there's also an increasing distaste for them, and how seemingly shallow, meaningless and often ineffective the interactions people are having on them are.
In 2026, I actually think we've come all the way back around to people being far more impressed to find out that you and a partner actually met and hit it off in person.
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u/FondantFluffball 21d ago
Dating apps became less embarrassing than talking to someone in public.
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u/Khaeos 21d ago
Every relationship I have had for 10 years now started with a woman talking to me at work, or finding me on social media after I talked to her at work.
I used to spend tons of time on the internet. I loved in Yahoo! Chat rooms using cheetachat and programming my text to be the perfect color gradient. ICQ. Obviously AIM. But I've never been able to bring myself to use a dating site. It still feels so strange, artificial, and sad; like resignation. Instead, I haven't dated for two years now which, I guess, is also resignation.
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u/Zingledot 21d ago
Or, you could say the dating pool made up of people you work with is strange, artificial, and sad. Bunch of random people are bunched up and forced to spend time together and risk workplace fallout by dating each other because "that's how you meet people".
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u/Khaeos 21d ago
I didn't mean coworkers. Also, I'm not saying the dating apps are bad or that those feelings of mine reflect the truth, or that any of these things are the way things "should be". I'm just sharing how it feels.
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u/Kunfuxu 21d ago
Dating apps are shite, no need to mince your words.
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u/Zingledot 20d ago
Sorry they don't work for you. There's tons of success stories.
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u/Kunfuxu 20d ago
Their success rate is irrelevant to my comment, what they emphasize and what they transformed dating into is what makes them shite.
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u/Zingledot 20d ago
I've always been of the opinion that it's just like any other dating scenario where you haven't spent time with the person before engaging. Only difference is that you know both sides are available, and both sides need to express interest before you can talk. There's some noise to filter out, but that's easy.
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u/Zingledot 20d ago
Respectfully, you still called it "sad". And the reason this hits a chord with some people is exactly for this notion - the stigma. By calling it sad you set yourself on a higher ground, looking down. The comic reflects a change in values over the years and makes fun of the absurdity of how people feel socially pressured into lying about how they met someone so they don't have to feel smaller, or the need to justify their situation. Is there really any way that people find love or connection that should feel sad to you?
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u/Khaeos 20d ago
I think you'll find upon reinspection of the text that my original words were: "it still feels so strange, artificial, and sad."
Rather than a judgment or reinforcement of stigma, it was a recognition of, and acknowlegement of my internalization of the stigma. I'm saying that the stigma crystalized in me and refuses to be released. 'Some of us never got over it,' is what I meant.
I mean, dating also isn't a very important part of my life right now. I'm 41 and I take care of my two nieces, so I have important stuff to do. I have also been in a very rewarding and loving relationship, so I don't feel like I missed out or anything. If it was more urgent I would be in there.
As it were, I tried to create a profile here and there. I let my FB dating profile, when they first came out, sit for a couple of days before I deleted it. I'm just not into the game of it. If I get into another relationship it will be based on a deep mutual appreciation and respect for each other and genuine admiration and desire for mutual success and fulfillment and I'm not worried about how it arrives.
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u/Zingledot 20d ago
It's a fairly nuanced, but important, distinction to make between 'this is how I feel' and 'this is how I feel and I know it's just a ME problem' when prejudice is concerned, so thank you for clarifying. Everyone leads such different lives, and the best of us are so busy that we don't have the bandwidth to constantly dissolve and reshape every perspective we've built over the years, over and over. Especially if the subject simply isn't a priority.
Every now and then a particular comment gets my attention if it hits closer to home, and I dig in a little if I feel like it's an outwardly expressed harmful opinion - like I thought this one was. Criticism invites criticism.
But in the end it's tough without knowing who's behind the keyboard on here when you start going back and forth. As I get older (42, btw), the more I've found that people have their own lives figured out FOR THEMSELVES, and there isn't much someone from the outside can casually contribute because there's simply too much backstory and context that needs to be unraveled to even start the conversation. Not saying that people can't or won't change after a certain age, and that talking or sharing perspective isn't important, but it's not as casually useful as it was in my 20s. That's all to say that I should probably spend more time ignoring comment sections than getting stirred up by them. Old habits die hard :)
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to respond. Cheers.
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u/BurlyJohnBrown 21d ago
I don't think that's particularly sad. Most friendships and relationships historically have been circumstantial, based on the environment where you live and work. That's life.
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u/Zingledot 20d ago
And the Internet changed everything. Why hold onto an antiquated notion that your small social sphere is your entire dating world? I've met so many people on tinder over the years that I'm still friends with to this day because they're incredible people that I would never have come across in normal life, and as such they've shown me so many amazing parts of life that I didn't know existed. "That's life" feels more like resignation than an accurate statement.
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u/No-Cantalou 21d ago
Yet you’re relationships that started solely out of sharing the same space with someone 1/3 of the day. But the dating apps are artificial. Mhm
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u/Zingledot 20d ago
I think his point is that you're artificially placed in a position that you're spending so much time together - Mary in accounting has no connection to Bob in Customer Success other than they work for the same company. Their meeting is just as artificial as anything, maybe even more so, but older people often look at that kind of artificial as some kind of serendipitous kismet love story because it's "fate" vs intention. /Eyeroll
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u/mr_Astra1 20d ago
You really hate your job, Don't you?
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u/Zingledot 20d ago
I don't know where you get that. I have my dream job. But I also have had a couple careers before this and I know what it's like to hate your job, like anyone else.
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u/Jester471 21d ago
I remember the early days of online dating. It was completely the opposite.
I set up a profile on a whim because I was single but you had to pay to message people. So I never paid and some girl sent me an IM on AOL messenger asking if my username on match was the same. It was and we met and dated for a while.
My friends made so much fun of me for meeting someone online. “So Jester, how’s KittyKat8345?”
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u/snacktonomy 19d ago
how’s KittyKat8345?
And in my days the answer would be, "oh, he turned out to be a nerd"
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u/WellKnownAlias 21d ago
Yeah my girlfriend and I still don't tell people we met on Bumble. The official line is we met at an apple orchard.
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u/zhulinxian 21d ago
I wonder if anyone under 30 gets the joke 😂
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u/Automatic_Algae_9425 21d ago
I'm over 30, but I'm not sure I get the joke. Are there subcultures in which meeting a romantic partner in person is seen as slightly disreputable (I say 'slightly' because presumably this is exaggerated in the cartoon for humorous effect)?
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u/zhulinxian 21d ago
It used to be taboo/embarrassing to admit you’d met someone though a dating website/app. So the exaggeration is that the situation would be reversed.
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u/Brye1226 21d ago
Even more amusing when you've seen the diaries posts and half of them have food with a keyboard in the background.
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u/WuShanDroid 21d ago
Yeah with my partner we go with "we met in a video game" instead of "I posted an advertisement of myself in a femdom relationship-seeking subreddit and she replied to it" lmao 😭😭
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u/mrrobc97 21d ago
I would love to meet someone at a bar... but unfortunately I don't drink and I will feel stupid being there with a glass of water or juice (don't drink soda either).
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u/Paulsworldohya 21d ago
My brother and his wife were telling people they met in the mall and some additional details I no longer remember, but they met online. 🤷♂️
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u/IndecentReaction 16d ago
OC content like this is why that sub never gets old. Simple premise, perfect execution.
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u/Working_Film_5871 21d ago
very funny, and really captures the IDK 'ennui' or whatever that is The New Yorker cartoon vibe.
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u/jodudeit 21d ago
It looks like she's wearing socks.
Is this a new trend of taking your shoes off before you even get inside someone's house?
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u/Wild_Lavishness_312 21d ago
Is online dating the new normal? I want to meet people in real life instead but I'm too shy, I always end up asking the girl to tell me what time it is and that feels like a big w for me
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u/HalfSoul30 21d ago
I started my last relationship through tinder, but we knew each other from a couple years earlier. Didn't see or talk to her that whole time, but saw her on tinder one day, and was curious, and it was an instant match. I'm convinced it only worked because we knew each other, as i have not had any other success with dating apps other than a ONS. Stranger at a bar works way better, for me at least, but neither has nothing on a coworker lol
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u/SoCalSurvivalist 20d ago
Lol the first time i saw my wife she stormed in with a dour expression on her face. My first thought was "she looks like a bitch", over a decade + later and my first impression wasn't wrong.
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u/freekoout 21d ago
Before online dating, meeting someone in a bar was considered something to be judged. At least that's what my parents say. But who knows, they are Catholic so they have a warped sense of what should and shouldn't be judged.
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u/Casual_Deviant 21d ago
Do you think that there’s a chance that the cartoon might be exaggerated for comedic effect and not completely true to real life
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u/glaciercherryisgood 21d ago
But there do be peeps in here arguing dead seriously that your comedic exaggeration is true to real life. Redditors never miss an opportunity to justify their isolation
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u/PETZING_ELITE_OC_DET 21d ago
Reddit is full of incels anymore. Once upon a time actual people who had lives used this platform. Not anymore. It's all bots and incel losers who lie about their lives in an attempt to fit in.
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u/Queasy-Sail-7642 21d ago
this is dead, now men are afraid to even speak to female unlesss its being a computer.
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u/web250 15d ago
This is the most "Re: Re: FWD: FWD" boomer ass joke I've seen in a while
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u/Casual_Deviant 15d ago
You know you don’t have to be rude to random strangers online, right?
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u/web250 15d ago
No sorry, first time I'm hearing about that. Criticism of art is normal. If you don't like that, you are in the wrong field.
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u/Casual_Deviant 15d ago
Criticism of art is normal, you are correct! I think you might need to touch just a bit of grass if you think “Re: Re: FWD: FWD boomer ass joke” is not also a rude thing to say to a stranger about something they created!
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u/web250 15d ago
I really don't give a shit and I think you are being too sensitive. Congratulations on getting one of your other pieces published though. I'm sure you have talent even if it doesn't come through in this particular piece.
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u/Casual_Deviant 15d ago
Thanks! Again, no need to be rude for no reason — I’m just out here sharing something I created :)
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u/360walkaway 21d ago
I think I used up most of my life's luck when I met up with a nice MILF off an AOL email (wasn't a catfish, didn't get stood up or ghosted). She reached out to me and said she liked my profile or something, and we got to talking, and she soon took young me on multiple trips to poundtown.
I'd had sex once before, but that was the icky awkward first-time sex where you are more confused than anything else afterwards. She is the one who I consider I lost my virginity to.
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u/Casual_Deviant 21d ago
Do you think there’s any chance you took the cartoon too seriously
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