Table Settings

Cartoons often have settings. Desert islands, for example, or the doctor’s office. These specific frameworks provide the context for the joke, and you go from there.

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The New Yorker

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Other times, the setting can be incidental. A couple walking down the street having a conversation. People have to talk somewhere.

Me? I love the table. They say draw what you know, and I know all about sitting at tables. Round tables. Rectangle tables. All sorts of tables. Tables might seem boring, but they are the perfect blank slate. Anything can happen at a table. Don’t believe me? Just take look.

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AirMail

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The New Yorker

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See? Tables! Who knew!

I have more to say about context, setting, and classic New Yorker tropes, but let’s table it for now. I have things to do. You have things to do. Maybe this weekend we can even take a break from tables. Just for a bit.

Thanks for reading, sharing, commenting, subscribing, and otherwise making this so much fun!

-Avi