Adrian Tomine’s “Lucky Dogs”

Moving astir the metropolis this spring, 1 can’t assistance but consciousness that galore radical look to person succumbed to a generalized anxiety. For the screen of the April 28, 2025, issue, the cartoonist Adrian Tomine attempted to seizure what helium observes connected his regular early-morning walks successful Prospect Park. “I often find myself successful the midst of ‘off-leash hours’ adjacent the Picnic House,” Tomine said. “Sometimes the oblivious, unbridled joyousness of each those dogs is an astonishing mood-lifter, and sometimes—especially lately—it fills maine with an irrational premix of annoyance and envy.”