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“It’s about my wife. I need you to find out what she thinks I did wrong.”
By Jon Adams (The New Yorker)
Private eyes are so ubitquious in pop culture by now that they pop up everywhere; a well-established meme that almost everyone instantly recognizes, and thus a frequent inclusion in humor. Here, a beleaguered husband implores your typical cartoon eye (dumpy retro office, cigarette-smoking, fedora-wearing, trench coat nearby, etc.) to help him figure out why his wife is angry with him.
Why may be why I got such a chuckle out of this cartoon by Jon Adams, which appeared in the January 22, 2025 issue of The New Yorker.
Jon Adams is a San Francisco-based art director, designer, illustrator, and writer, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, P, MAD, and McSweeney’s, and has worked for various publishers, including Fanagraphics, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse. He’s also the creator of Chief O’Brien at Work, a long-running Star Trek-based web comic “for fans of crappy jobs, space travel, and ennui.” You can check out Jon’s work here.
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