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Jason is an award-winning Cartoonist, Author & Comedian based in New York City

His cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker, The Weekly Humorist, American Bystander, Wired, Esquire, Airmail, Variety, and MAD Magazine among others. His art has been exhibited in France, the UK, Australia, and the US and in books published by Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, & Humorist Media. His latest book with Andrews McMeel Publishing will be out in Fall 2025

For 16 years, he has been an internationally syndicated comic strip cartoonist, writing and drawing the iconic 102-year-old strip, Ginger Meggs, published daily through Andrews McMeel Syndication.

Chatfield is a past President of both the National Cartoonists Society (Est. 1946) and the Australian Cartoonists Association (Est. 1924).

His weekly newsletter New York Cartoons is one of Substack's Featured Publications for 2023, with thousands of weekly subscribers. He is also the portrait illustrator for Waking Up, the award-winning meditation app created by Sam Harris.

Cartoons

Single gag cartoons published in The New Yorker, MAD, Weekly Humorist and elsewhere.

Illustrations

Illustration commissions for posters, podcast artwork, gifts, sketches, digital and hand-drawn art.

Advertising

Concepting, Sketches, Comps, Storyboards, Ideation illustration, Campaign artwork & more.

I was approached by the Waking Up creative team to work on the redesign for the Waking Up app: specifically the portraits of their conversations section and the Essential Sam Harris series.

For the past 17 years, Jason has performed comedy all over the world, including places where they think his Australian accent is some kind of birth defect.

He has performed at comedy clubs around New York and all over the US, appearing at The Comedy Cellar @ Fat Black, New York Comedy Club, Pussycat, Stand-Up New York, Gotham Comedy Club, Dangerfield’s, West Side Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club,, Greenwich Village Comedy Club, and The Eastville Comedy Club. He has hosted and featured at Columbus Improv, Carolina Comedy Club, Catch a Rising Star, The Laughing Derby, Rockwells, and Bananas Comedy Club.

Chatfield has been featured in national network television and international commercials including the latest iPhone 15 Pro Max, and as his character of "Dan Driff" for the Selsun Blue campaign.