Gary B. Martin is an illustrator and animator who has lived on the Upper West Side for more than 30 years. His illustrations appear in the Rag on Sundays, chronicling life in the neighborhood, New York City, and the Universe. See them all here. For a broader range of Gary’s work, including animations and other motion graphics, please visit www.martoons.com
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Ha! Very funny — unless it’s YOUR husband being that obtuse (says his beleaguered wife, now ketchup -less).
You goofball, you!
Love this, Gary. Nice to have a break from the,,,, the… you know what I mean.
Enough Green Goddess dressing and I would eat your shopping list gladly. With relish, even.
Who uses paper shopping lists anymore. Yrag needs to get with the times. 😁
I use paper. And make nice doodles:)
But The Times is the *paper* of record, isn’t it?
We old folks do.
I, for one, very nearly had to resort to paper shopping lists after I recently terminated my T-Mobile service (for the obvious reason). Fortunately, though, I was able to transfer an image of my list to my feature phone — no, the original HTML version would not work. Oh, the contortions one endures when striving to walk the straight and narrow!
Curious – what is the obvious reason?
Fourth time’s the charm?
This development (https://www.businessinsider.com/fcc-tmobile-end-dei-policies-deal-approval-2025-7) was my immediate impetus, and this one (https://popular.info/p/these-companies-touted-their-efforts) certainly didn’t help.
This time I’ll skip the story covering the long list of other corporations in the same hall of shame as T-Mo; you’ve probably read all about that anyhow.
Sorry, Ish, I tried, but WSR’s new AI-powered moderation software evidently doesn’t want me to tell you the obvious reason. (Maybe because it’s obvious?) I really think they should either get the darn thing working properly or replace it with a competent human moderator.
Maybe I’ll try again later.
Interesting. Curious to find out what I may be missing.
You’ll be pleased to learn — assuming you ever see this — that I was finally able to land an abbreviated version of the explanation; see above.
The hat needs its own illustration. Love your work. If you run out of ketchup, you know where to find us! Thanks for always bringing smiles and laughter. Loved the interview as well.
I love this silliness!
Hahaha! This is exactly the kind of light-hearted humor I needed. I just want to know how you were able to carry those paper bags without soaking them with sweat, Gary.
no. of course not.
Men!?! 🤪😂😳
Hahaha
My kinda humah ….I’m still giggling….
Love the cartoon; loved the interview!
Wait are you secretly living in my house and writing down everything you hear?