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Boston.com interview about On the Loose in New Orleans and other books in the series

Boston.com article

Article by Katelyn Umholtz at Boston.com
From their walkability to their diverse offerings, cartoonist and author Sage Stossel has a love for great American cities. Stossel grew up in Belmont, and even [Click here to continue reading the article at Boston.com]

(Also see On the Loose in Boston, On the Loose in Washington, DC, On the Loose in Philadelphia, and On the Loose in New York City, the graphic novel Starling, and T-Ride, a board book about riding the Boston subway.

On the Loose in Boston was selected by Boston’s Mayor for the city’s suggested Youth Reading list )

On the Loose in New Orleans (children’s book)

I’m excited to share that my new children’s book, On the Loose in New Orleans is out this week.

New Orleans children's book

Book description:
Prize-winning cartoonist Sage Stossel has created her fifth Find-the Animals book with On the Loose in New Orleans. Children will have hours of entertainment finding the Audubon Zoo animals—whether a tiger on Bourbon Street, an anteater in Jackson Square, or an alligator at Café Du Monde… Over 100 animals are hiding cleverly in favorite New Orleans locations in this colorfully-illustrated rhyming picture book.

[Click here to buy the book.]

Also, for New Orleans pictures to print and color, things for kids to do in NOLA, and more, visit the On the Loose in New Orleans web site.

(Also see On the Loose in Boston, On the Loose in Washington, DC, On the Loose in Philadelphia, and On the Loose in New York City, the graphic novel Starling, and T-Ride, a board book about riding the Boston subway.

On the Loose in Boston was selected by Boston’s Mayor for the city’s suggested Youth Reading list )

Addressing a public health crisis in Cambridge (Boston Globe cartoon)

narcan, fentanyl strips, opioids, addiction, cambridge public health department, overdose, cambridge public library, cartoon, sage stossel

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[BOOKS: On the Loose in Boston, On the Loose in Washington, DC, On the Loose in Philadelphia, On the Loose in New York City, T-Ride, and graphic novel Starling.]

A cartoonist outsources her work to AI (Boston Globe cartoon)

chatgpt, ai, artificial intelligence, midguard, cartooning, deepfakes, art, copyright, cartoon, sage stossel

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[BOOKS: On the Loose in Boston, On the Loose in Washington, DC, On the Loose in Philadelphia, On the Loose in New York City, T-Ride, and graphic novel Starling.]

A bygone era of collegiality (Boston Globe cartoon)

harvard, israel, palestine, ideology, campus tensions, flyers, kidnapped, hillel, protests, viral incidents, doxxing truck, campus security, joseoph nye, historical studies a-12, frances fukuyama, the end of history, capitalism, the west, divisiveness, jody cartoon, comic strip, gulf war, 1990s, cartoon, sage stossel

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[BOOKS: On the Loose in Boston, On the Loose in Washington, DC, On the Loose in Philadelphia, On the Loose in New York City, T-Ride, and graphic novel Starling.]

An afternoon with MIT’s Age Lab (Boston Globe cartoon)

mit age lab, agnes, age suit, smart homes, aging in place, target market, demographics, seniors, elders, cambridge massachusetts, cambridge senior center, self-driving cars, robo-pets, animatronic animals, mobility, social connection, technology, lifespan, joe coughlin, cartoon, sage stossel

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[BOOKS: On the Loose in Boston, On the Loose in Washington, DC, On the Loose in Philadelphia, On the Loose in New York City, T-Ride, and graphic novel Starling.]

Rick Riordan, storyteller of the demigods (Boston Globe cartoon)

rick riordan, percy jackson, boston book festival, greek mythology getty museum, adhd, dyslexia, haley riordon, poseidon, fatherhood, writers, children's literature, olympus, magnus chase,, cartoon, sage stossel

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[BOOKS: On the Loose in Boston, On the Loose in Washington, DC, On the Loose in Philadelphia, On the Loose in New York City, T-Ride, and graphic novel Starling.]

Rex Babin Memorial Award

Excellence in Local Cartooning Award

I was thrilled to learn last week that I was the finalist for the Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning. I’m honored to be in company with Joel Pett, the longtime Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for Kentucky’s Lexington-Herald Leader, who was unceremoniously fired by McClatchy earlier this year. And I loved how they described my cartoons in the writeup:

National Society of Newspaper Columnists' 2023 Contest Editorial cartoon

[BOOKS: On the Loose in Boston, On the Loose in Washington, DC, On the Loose in Philadelphia, On the Loose in New York City, T-Ride, and graphic novel Starling.]

No laughing matter (Boston Globe cartoon)

comedians, angst, jimmy fallon, james corden, ellen degeneris, george carlin, joan rivers, stress, humor, laugh factory, ildiko tabory, wheel of carpet samples, therapy, entertainment industry, cruel, kids, cartoon, sage stossel

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[BOOKS: On the Loose in Boston, On the Loose in Washington, DC, On the Loose in Philadelphia, On the Loose in New York City, T-Ride, and graphic novel Starling.]

Attack of the Skibidi Toilets (Boston Globe cartoon)

skibid toilet, blugray, dafuqboom, screentime, youtube, alexey gerasimov, kids, cartoon, sage stossel

Click to see the full cartoon.
Click to see the full cartoon at the Boston Globe.
[BOOKS: On the Loose in Boston, On the Loose in Washington, DC, On the Loose in Philadelphia, On the Loose in New York City, T-Ride, and graphic novel Starling.]