If you haven't discovered Avi Steinberg, you're in for a treat. (And if you have, a welcome visit back.)
Avi's deceptively simple New Yorker cartoons have a knack for penetrating the heart of the problem, often in ways that illuminate the crux of our delusions. Though not a Zenner to my knowledge, his work repeatedly strikes Zen-adjacent targets with a clarity worthy of Nasrudin.
I've avoided possible insult to Avi's copyright by not posting any examples on this page, though the writer in me is, like, "Really? You're trying to drive traffic to his Substack without showing anybody why they should go?"
But such is the looking glass of these greedy times.
So you'll have to trust me. Click the links. See what I'm talking about.
Start here.
I don't know if the guy meditates, but this about sums it up. It's part of a protracted exploration of the nature of anxiety, of which pretty much every frame is gold.
Then sample a few from his timeline:
Winning.
The perils of mindfulness.
Why it's hard to keep writing.
Then click through to some more.
Or just Google Avi and click on Images.
And then we'll all sue him for stealing our lives.
(Photo of Hotei figurine courtesy of Adrian Pingstone and Wikimedia Commons.)
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