Joe Dator, fresh off his win at the NCSFest (he won in the category of Best In Gag Cartoons), headed to Japan with his traveling companion, Walter Groovy. I asked Mr. Dator to talk a little about Mr. Groovy:
Well, he’s the doughy balding middle aged man who shows up in my cartoons quite a bit, enough so that I gave him a name. I took him to Australia in 2017, he was with me at the Reuben Awards in CA last week, and I’m probably taking him with me to Italy later this year.
Mr. Dator added: “If he looks a little different, it’s because he’s a special version I dubbed “Konnichi-Groovy.'”
Above: Konnichi-Groovy and Mr. Dator — on the right, Mr. Dator with Mr. Groovy at the NCSFest
Mr. Dator began contributing to The New Yorker in 2006. Visit his website here.
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Today’s Daily Cartoon/Cartoonist
Politics and UFOs, courtesy of David Sipress, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1998.