Episode 196 - Tommy Siegel

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast · Mar 26, 2025 · 1h 18m

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…