Hey, times flies when you’re being as funny as Sam Gross. He got his first cartoon published in The New Yorker 50 years ago this August and over 432 have followed that one. Here are three Sam Gross New Yorker classics that will be funny 50 years from now. There’s no doubt…
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Bob’s Cartoon Lounge: The Cartoon Caption Contest: Winners, Wordclouds and Advice for Intrepid Entrants
Hello to everyone … who has entered our Cartoon Caption Contests or only voted or loitered around for any reason at all. Welcome! Feel free to enter our contests, take our money, search our cartoons and if the mood strikes you, damn it, license one of them. That’s the actual purpose of CartoonStock. To make…
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The Naked Cartoonist: What Is a Cartoon?
The following is an excerpt from Bob Mankoff’s book The Naked Cartoonist. “Me, sir. I’m a cartoon.” Well, bless your little plucky heart, but no, you’re just a cartoon character. Not a whole cartoon. Neither is A, which is an illustration in cartoon style, or B, which is just the same thing but marginally more…
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