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The Cartoon Desk · July 18, 2026

"I'll have what he's having. Twice, and with extra plantains."

Drawn by M. Ostrow

A crowded Cuban diner counter at midnight; a bewildered patron gestures at a plate the size of a hubcap.
Alt text · A crowded Cuban diner counter at midnight; a bewildered patron gestures at a plate the size of a hubcap.

Ostrow's ongoing series set at the same all-night ventanilla on Calle Ocho.

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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