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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

A cartoon by Matthew Diffee. :: [The New Yorker Humor]

[joshthecartoonguy]

[ohhelloshow-blog]

[nickdouglas]

Sorta Like a Cheetah

The main thing I have in common with a cheetah is that we hunt the same way. First, we have to pick the right gazelle out of the herd and then we creep up on it. We get as close as we can without spooking it, then we go for it. Full speed. Sometimes the gazelle, as it tries to escape, will veer close to another gazelle and any cheetah, myself included, can be tempted to switch gazelles. "Hey, here's a closer gazelle!" he thinks to himself. "And this one ain't even running!"

So he goes after this new gazelle. The trouble is, when he goes for this other closer, standing gazelle, it starts running. And it's got fresh legs. The cheetahs's already a little winded. "Why didn't I just stick with that first gazelle," thinks the cheetah. "I'd already gotten him half tuckered out." So he abandons gazelle number two and goes back for gazelle number one, only now he can't find gazelle number one. Is it in the flat file or buried under papers on his desk? So he starts after a third gazelle, but there's no point. He's exhausted now and thirsty and besides, it's getting late and he has to do other stuff like make some phone calls and go to the post office before it closes to mail out some doodles. Lack of focus.

— Matthew Diffee, Sorta Like a Cheetah

[stevewojcik]

New Yorker Cartoonist Matthew Diffee: How To Be Creative

In this Forbes article, New Yorker Cartoonist Matthew Diffee Shows How To Be Creative. http://onforb.es/wEsJt9 [quote]“Be like a mother sea turtle.” By that he means lay a hundred conceptual eggs in the sand, then swim off and don’t fret over what becomes of them. Most of them will never hatch; most of the hatchlings will get eaten by predators. That’s not your problem. Your task is just to keep laying eggs.[/quote] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mkEkto9ng

[universitybookstore]

Matthew Diffee’s Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People, new from Simon and Schuster, reminds us why it’s so much better being, you know, smart and attractive.

[fangirlnationmag]

'Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People' is Not for the Easily Offended

‘Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People’ is Not for the Easily Offended

Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People by Matthew Diffee is not for the easily offended. Award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee uses this book as a chance to mock all that her surveys in this collection of cartoons and other types of visual humor.

The style is familiar to fans of the New Yorker, but goes that extra step from casually cutting satire to jokes about what your pet…

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[austinkleon]

Let my very funny friend Matt Diffee, he of New Yorker fame, teach you how to get a great idea.

See also: Frank Chimero's “How To Have An Idea”