More sketches from Washington Square Park.

A friend loaned me a DVD “I’m Alan Partridge,” a classic British comedy that nobody in America’s ever heard of. His character is the subject of a movie that’s playing soon at the New York Film Festival. It’s very, very funny. My inital observation is that Steve Carell, in The Office, must have been cribbing more from Steve Coogan, a.k.a Alan Partridge, than from Ricky Gervais of the original “Office.” Carell’s awkward man-child is pure Partridge.

Just to give you an idea of the kind of Labor Day weekend I had, here’s a sketch of me, drawn in a bar, while looking at a photo of myself drawing and smoking a cigar in a cigar shop. If only I had a photo of me drawing this drawing that I could draw…