Shuffalo
Can you make a longer word with each new letter?
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Summer Pierre on Helen Hokinson
Her version of the middle-aged matron was a gentle innocent who faced the world with an unself-conscious enthusiasm.
Navied Mahdavian on James Thurber
It wasn’t until I started cartooning myself that I realized he only made it look easy.
Ali Fitzgerald on J. J. Sempé
His urban idylls are populated by bald businessmen who escape reality by biking and daydreaming.
Roz Chast on Gahan Wilson
He had his own world: a place where the funny and the horrific crossed paths.
Emily Flake on Alice Harvey
My hand twitches with instinctive joy at how you draw a woman’s hat, coat, stance.
Liana Finck on William Steig
He shies away neither from harshness nor from unadulterated sweetness.
Tiny read, big exhale
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