Lawrence Wood

Last month’s contest featured a captionless drawing by New Yorker cartoonist Tim Hamilton, who helped judge the more than 500 entries. If you like his work as much as we do, check out his website and podcast. Hamilton’s drawing is set in a bar, where two human-size fish are sitting next to each other on…
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BIG NEWS: Bob Mankoff is now a grandfather! Last Thursday his daughter gave birth to what Bob described as an “eight-pound eight-ounce bundle of boy” named Whittier David Dunn, whom everyone is calling Whit. Congratulations to Bob and his entire expanding family.  Now on to our contest, which featured a captionless drawing by New Yorker…
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Last month’s contest featured a drawing by Tim Mellish, who joined our judges’ panel from Brisbane, Australia, at 2:00 a.m.  His drawing is set in Heaven, where St. Peter is standing by the pearly gates and addressing a man with a leaf blower. Tim’s original caption was, “Surely, you jest,” which is very close to…
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Last month’s contest featured a drawing by cartoonist Katherine Bettis, who joined our judges’ panel to help select the winning entry and five runners-up. Her drawing is set at a dinner table, where a cow who’s wearing an apron is serving hay to her calf and a human boy. The boy, who’s staring at his portion…
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Last month’s contest featured a drawing by New Yorker cartoonist Sofia Warren, who unfortunately couldn’t join our judging panel but did review all the entries and send us her top ten. Sofia’s drawing is set in a bedroom, where a woman is in bed and on her smart phone. Under her bed is a monster,…
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Cartoonist Bill Whitehead helped judge last month’s contest, which featured his drawing of a creature who looks like Bigfoot talking to a group of reporters, one of whom has a camera, in the woods. The creature’s nose is unusually large and he looks weary, as though he’s tired of the reporters’ questions. Bill’s original caption…
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