{"id":298777,"date":"2026-07-17T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298777\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:50:08","slug":"wsr-cartoon-new-emojis-for-the-upper-west-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298777\/","title":{"rendered":"WSR Cartoon: New Emojis for the Upper West Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/WSR-Emojis-2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-103676 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/WSR-Emojis-2-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\"\/><\/a>By Bob Eckstein<\/p>\n<p>Today is indeed World Emoji Day.<\/p>\n<p>About the cartoonist:\u00a0Bob Eckstein\u00a0is a writer, illustrator, author, and contributor of cartoons to The New Yorker and West Side Rag. Check out his popular newsletter,\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thebob.substack.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Bob,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Read the Rag\u2019s Q &amp; A with him \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/2024\/07\/21\/q-the-uws-is-the-cool-table-at-school\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/18\/travel\/museum-guide-bob-eckstein-illustrator.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See all WSR Cartoons \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/tag\/wsr-cartoon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to West Side Rag\u2019s FREE email newsletter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/westsiderag.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=5772ebf2a0a585445f1188785&amp;id=f50755d5f9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. And you can Support the Rag\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/support-west-side-rag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Bob Eckstein Today is indeed World Emoji Day. About the cartoonist:\u00a0Bob Eckstein\u00a0is a writer, illustrator, author, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-298777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}