Welcome to the third installment of our How To Make It series, in which we talk to Bushwick residents about their field of work and how to become successful at it. Is there a specific industry that interests you? Do you have any specific questions to ask? Leave us a comment and we’ll find a neighbor that works in the industry and ask them all about it.

In our careers we often approach certain thresholds, the crossing of which keeps us up at night; the crossing of which means we’ve “made it.” In some cases it takes years of perfecting one’s craft and years of getting to know one’s game to figure out what that threshold even is, but once you do cross it, it’s glorious. (Also a whole new set of challenges opens up but that’s another story).

Jeremy Nguyen, a beloved Bushwick illustrator, widely known for his comedic cartoon series, “Stranger Than Bushwick,” which was published on Bushwick Daily for several years, has crossed a major threshold of having been published by the New Yorker. By the time of this article, he has had four cartoons in print, four Daily Cartoons online, and three Shouts pieces online as well. Naturally, we couldn’t pass on this opportunity to ask him how it’s done.