Snails have long appealed to cartoonists (Sam Gross’s “I don’t care if she is a tape dispenser. I love her.” remains an all-time favorite gag). And also to me—as a kid, I had a pet snail named Milo ...

Take a quick break from election-related news to get a lesson on drawing this squishy, curious creature from Amy Hwang. They are deceptively not as easy to draw, I think, as people would think, but ...