{"product_id":"turnstile-sheep","title":"Turnstile Sheep","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"135\"\u003eTom Toro turns late-night city anxiety into surreal pastoral comedy in this wonderfully odd unpublished New Yorker cartoon pitch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"137\" data-end=\"527\"\u003eDrawn in pen on 8.5\" x 11\" printer paper, this original preliminary sketch captures a sleepless New Yorker staring out at the skyline while imagining an impossible subway scene populated entirely by sheep passing through turnstiles. The image plays like a perfect collision of urban insomnia and the age-old ritual of “counting sheep” — except this version could only happen in Manhattan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"529\" data-end=\"903\"\u003eLoose, spontaneous, and full of exploratory energy, the drawing preserves the immediacy of Toro’s creative process before refinement or publication. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"905\" data-end=\"1227\"\u003eAs an unpublished New Yorker pitch, the piece offers collectors a rare glimpse into the construction of a joke at its earliest stage. The visible pen strokes and open composition give the work an intimacy often absent from finished published cartoons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1229\" data-end=\"1410\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eEqual parts dream logic, commuter satire, and classic New Yorker neurosis, this preliminary sketch showcases Tom Toro’s gift for finding the absurd hidden inside everyday city life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1229\" data-end=\"1410\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eThis piece is being offered with the rough sketch\/outline of the cartoon concept.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Toro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48937674440932,"sku":null,"price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0646\/5345\/9684\/files\/SheepSubwayTurnstilesketch1940.jpg?v=1778883591","url":"https:\/\/www.curatedcartoons.com\/products\/turnstile-sheep","provider":"Curated Cartoons","version":"1.0","type":"link"}