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The Cartoon Desk · June 27, 2026

"She's my co-author now — and she was a stray under the porch."

Drawn by L. Bao

A novelist introduces a small, unbothered cat to a room full of literary agents in a Coral Gables bookstore.
Alt text · A novelist introduces a small, unbothered cat to a room full of literary agents in a Coral Gables bookstore.

Bao returns to the desk after a year away teaching in Gainesville.

Every week the desk selects a handful of drawings from the several hundred submissions that arrive by post and by wire. The full archive stretches back to the magazine's founding in 1925 — a running record of what has struck us as absurd, or tender, or true.

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