The New Yorker Cartoonist David Sipress (ep. 452)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
4.8 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
David Sipress is an iconic cartoonist for The New Yorker. Since 1998, he's published nearly 700 cartoons largely based on perceptions of shared human experience, rooted in his life-long love of history.
With humor, creativity and vulnerability, David shares stories about his complicated family, the day he decided to pursue cartooning professionally and the 25 years of rejection that followed.
Don't miss today's intimate and engaging conversation with an artist who understands that personal thoughts and feelings often lead to remarkable ideas.
Learn more about this episode and more at JohnOLearyInspires.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, look, Dad, your friend is building it. |
| 0:04.6 | My friends, we were downtown driving around the new soccer stadium that is being built right here in St. Louis, Missouri, when my son, Patrick, yelled that out from the backseat of the car. |
| 0:15.1 | Look, Dad, your friends are building it. |
| 0:17.5 | He was referring to my friends at Keely Companies. |
| 0:20.1 | Keely Companies is proud to be |
| 0:21.9 | a part of the team that is bringing major league soccer to America's first soccer capital right here |
| 0:28.2 | in St. Louis, Missouri. As construction partners of the St. Louis City Stadium, they are looking |
| 0:33.2 | forward for this project to be a place for entertainment, camaraderie, and passion for generations |
| 0:38.9 | to come. You can learn more about that project and look what else they're building dad by |
| 0:43.9 | visiting them right now online at keeliecompanies.com. Welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with |
| 0:53.3 | John O'Leary. |
| 0:54.7 | John is the number one national bestselling author of the book On Fire. |
| 0:58.9 | He's a world-class inspirational speaker, and he's the host of the Live-inspired podcast. |
| 1:04.0 | John interviews extraordinary individuals on their life story so that you can wake up from accidental living and more fully live your life |
| 1:12.8 | story. Here's your host, John O'Leary. Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired |
| 1:19.9 | podcast with John O'Leary. David Cyprus is our guest today. You may know that name because |
| 1:26.5 | David is an iconic cartoonist for the |
| 1:29.8 | New Yorker. Since 1990, he's published nearly 700 cartoons based on perceptions of shared |
| 1:37.4 | human experience rooted in his lifelong love of history. It's with humor, creativity, and vulnerability. David shares stories |
| 1:46.8 | about his complicated family the day he decided to pursue cartooning professionally and then the |
| 1:53.7 | 25 years of rejection that followed. Hear that again, 25 years of drawing, of submitting, and of being rejected that followed. |
| 2:05.3 | Don't miss today's awesome episode. You're going to hear an engaging conversation with an artist who |
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