By popular demand, I just added a new $25 tier to my Patreon page. Here’s the description of what you’ll get for that monthly fee: With this amount you are demonstrating yourself as a likely NPR contributor, meaning that you have genuine concerns about how shitty the state of the union is, you harbor a real love of art and music, you like microbrews and the smell of sandalwood, and you’re burdened by just enough guilt to require a monthly donation to a good cause to make yourself feel like you’re part of the solution and nothing like your conservative in-laws. I love you for that and I can help. Know that your patronage is paying for the gasoline that I pour into the Molotov cocktails of my cartoons and imagine that I’m using a handcrafted ceramic drip cone made by indigenous artisans named after plants and animals as my pour-over funnel. Do you hear Malcolm Gladwell on the radio in the background talking about the poetic ingenuity of dogs’ eyebrows on a New Yorker podcast? Why, yes, you do. At this tier you will have the delightful option of sending me a one word email (like ‘aggravation’ or ‘porcupine’) once a month and I will draw a simple line cartoon, scan it in and send it to you to put on your refrigerator right next to the Susan Sontag magnet and the yoga garden business card, printed, of course, on the recycled whispers of butterflies. That’s right, in addition to all the previous awards available through Patreon, I will be your own personal Saul Steinberg. Dig it.
