{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Radio Chatskill","title":"Drawing Laughs: How Sullivan County Cartoonists Lia Strasser and Bizzy Coy Made It to The New Yorker","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":455,"description":"Playful, self-aware and just a little absurd — that defines the creative partnership between fellow Sullivan County cartoonists Lia Strasser and Bizzy Coy. The duo will bring that chemistry to Narrowsburg on February 22, for “Talk Toons,” a behind-the-scenes look at their work.From Sullivan County Walk to The New YorkerStrasser had been trying to break into The New Yorker for years before she approached Coy.“I had been trying to submit cartoons to the New Yorker for quite some time before I approached Bizzy,” Strasser says. “And we took a nice walk and I said, ‘Listen, Bizzy, you know, I’ve got these cartoons, I have these drawings, and I think they’re wonderful, but nobody else does.’ And I was wondering if you might look at them and perhaps take a new perspective on some of the captions because Bizzy is a brilliant comedic writer.”Coy’s initial response?“She said, ‘No.’”“That’s true. That’s true,” Coy says, laughing. “You know, but Leah’s persistent. You know, she’s a persistent person. She knows what she wants.”Six months later, persistence paid off.“She followed up with me about six months later,” Coy says. “And I had kind of gotten used to the idea. And I said, ‘All right, send me some of your cartoons.’ And she had a treasure trove of amazing cartoons. And it didn’t take much word smithing to kind of tweak her captions and tweak what she had. And it was really fun. It’s very addicting to like come up with a caption.”That’s how their partnership — part caption contest, part comedy duo — began.Playing the Caption ContestIf you’ve ever flipped to the back page of The New Yorker, you know the caption contest: a single cartoon, thousands of possible punchlines.Coy says that’s often exactly how they work.“Leah, isn’t that exactly what I call it sometimes — is I’m playing caption contest with Leah’s illustrations?”Strasser agrees. “As a matter of fact, I texted Bizzy an illustration late last night. Late last night, too late. ‘Hey, you know, do you want to play?...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/q7XXsnSXT_u4mZLCn3chUorwDmUD_kWiB272D6emB18/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80N2Uy/OGY5MWUwZThkYTEw/NDVkZGM2ZGZkZDIw/ZjliOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}