Episode 196 - Tommy Siegel

New Yorker cartoonist, musician and birder, Tommy Siegel joins us on the podcast this week.Tommy talks about his love of cartoons when he was young, how he recently got back into it (a cartoon a day for 500 days) and his amazing bird studies, Extremely Accurate Birds. You'll never think of bird watching in the same way again!He also talks about his Candy Hearts books. These books gather his cartoons about romance, love and relationships as expressed on those tasty chalk based candy hearts.Tommy is also a member of the popular band, Jukebox The Ghost and he talks about the time they were on Late Night With David Letterman when Dave had a then celebrity reality TV show host on.He will also have the podcast version of Very Accurate Birds coming out in the near future, so look for it in the next few weeks.Check out Tommy's website for his cartoons, books and birds:https://tommysiegel.netAnd you can check out his instagram page here:https://www.instagram.com/tommysiegel/On Part 1 of the episode, we discuss the current contests:Winning captions for New Yorker contest #934 (Unreal estate agent.)Finalists for contest #936 (Close Encounters of the Trinity Kind.)Current New Yorker contest #938 (Every dog has his day job.) We also talk about our favorite cartoons from the current issue of the New Yorker.You can buy original New Yorker cartoon art at Curated Cartoons:https://www.curatedcartoons.comSend us questions or comments to:  [email protected]