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… and your buddy’s on the case, we’ll get the miscreant, trust me! That’s the burden of this goofy Desert Island cartoon in the latest (5/12&19/25) issue of the New Yorker:

(#1) Bill’s priceless facial expression suggests that he’s not buying his companion’s attempt at deflection

Yet another demonstration that the hoariest of cartoon memes can be made truly fresh; just yesterday Bizarro brought us a tour de force version of Psychiatrist, accomplished entirely with kitchen appliances:

(#2) Coffee percolator, whistling tea kettle, and two-slice toaster (both #1 and this cartoon are also couple cartoons, on the theme of relationships within pairs)

And, as for Benjamin Schwartz, there is a Page on the artist on this blog, here.

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