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Michael J. Johnson’s cartoon in the New Yorker issue of July 8 & 15, 2024, offering a fresh solution to a perennial vexation of artists: drawing a horse (especially the legs and head):

(#1) Don’t try to fix the artists; fix the horses

You can see an opportunity for a much larger-scale breeding program — which might be extended, if the ethical issues could be ironed out, to breeding people with easy-to-draw legs, feet, and facial expressions (like the ones in #1)

There are many Michael Johnsons around, even a Michael J. Johnson who’s a painter and video artist. Of the cartoonist of (#1), I haven’t been able to find any information (though my mind is somewhat addled by the heat). I can at least report on two earlier New Yorker cartoons by him:

(#2) Dated on the Condé Nast site as from 9/11/23

(#3) Dated on the Condé Nast site as from 10/2/23

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