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I'm a cartoonist (The New Yorker magazine) and illustrator from NYC. I am also a writer, and my latest written and illustrated essays appear at Oldster (here and here), and at Longreads.com, here: https://longreads.com/author/carolita/
My newest gig is providing eldercare for my elderly parent since 2020! Please, support caregivers! It's a full time, unpaid job for most of us, meaning everyone I know who's doing it. Every gesture of support buoys us financially and emotionally validates us when we really need it.
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About me: I spent 13 years in Paris, France, after graduating from Parson's School of Design with a degree in Fashion Design. In Paris, I earned a masters degree in Modern Letters and Linguistics, and got some (admittedly very idiosyncratic) chops in pre-doctoral Medieval Anthropology, which turned out to be the gateway drug to cartoons and illustration.
My cartoons appear in The New Yorker magazine.
Other writing and appearances:
An essay in the 2021 reprint of Sari Botton's, Goodbye To All That.
You'll see me a few times in the HBO documentary, Very Semi-Serious, about us New Yorker cartoonists.
I'm a proud, 3-time alum and volunteer of the O+ Festival for the Arts, Kingston as an artist, and as a writer, for their Literary Salon now called WO+RD. Have taught a workshop on illustrated essays at SUNY New Paltz. And you can also hear me in a few interviews on Radio Kingston, on shows like: "Secret City Radio Hour," "I want what she has", the "O+ radio hour," and on "No one like you!"
I'm working on a really crazy book. It's all about being a multiracial first/second gen Latina/American and getting old as a woman artist, but there's also pirates and Incas and fugutive war criminals in it. Ask me all about it. I haven't finished it yet, and haven't sold it yet.
Contact by email: carolitajohnson at gmail dot com