As I've hinted, one preoccupation of the cartoonist David Sipress is: money.
There is always tension right under the surface, and Sipress loves this. He makes room for the tension. A man presents an allowance to his son, but the stern Norman Rockwell talk goes missing. Instead, the dad says: "This is cash. Get ready to worry about this for the rest of your life." We all think we can put off financial catastrophe by wary behavior, but Sipress knows better: "The thing to do is just...invent a time machine, go back sixteen months, and convert all your investments to cash!" And we worry about money *at the cost of* enjoying the thing that is actually valuable in our life, the person next to us on the sofa. As one spouse says to another: "I'll give you a million dollars if you can tell me whether I've just been talking about my mother, my ballot, or my job...."
Sipress says he likes to use a certain kind of pen because it produces wild, unanticipated blobs of ink; these blobs lead Sipress to go in new, and surprising, directions.
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