'Midwest nice' cartoonist seen in The New Yorker is ready for Chicago and the DNC

'Midwest nice' cartoonist seen in The New Yorker is ready for Chicago and the DNC

Four a.m. is a productive hour for Midwestern cartoonist Paul Noth. Whether awake and wired, or asleep and lost in dreamscapes, some ineffable magic unfolds in the blurry hours that straddle late night and early morning.Most recently, Noth, 51, found himself wrestling with an idea after watching Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention in July. After tuning in for the better part of an hour, Noth “stopped because that speech w…