Lawrence Wood

Last month’s contest featured a cartoon by Nate Fakes, who joined our judging panel. His drawing is set in heaven, where two angels are looking at another angel who’s carrying more than his fair share of halos and wearing a backpack that’s overflowing with them. One of the onlooker angels is addressing the other. Nate…
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Last month’s contest featured a drawing by New Yorker cartoonist Meredith Southard. It’s set on a pirate ship where the captain, who’s wearing an eye patch and has a hook for a left hand, is saying something to the pirate who’s standing to his right. The captain’s speaking out of the side of his mouth,…
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Last month’s contest featured a cartoon by Ken Levine, who joined our judging panel. Ken is not only a New Yorker cartoonist; he’s an Emmy-winning screenwriter who’s worked on some of the greatest television comedies of all time, including M*A*S*H, Cheers, and Frasier.  In Ken’s drawing, a woman is standing in the doorway of what…
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This contest featured a cartoon by Mike Shiell, who joined our judging panel. Mike is best known for supervising and directing Emmy-nominated children’s shows like “The Backyardigans” and “Mike the Knight.”   In his drawing, two anthropomorphic hot dogs are on a rotating roller grill, the kind you see at concession stands in movie theaters. The…
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Bob Mankoff is back. Three weeks ago he delivered the Alumni Keynote address at his alma mater, Syracuse University (where my father taught for nearly forty years), and last Friday he rejoined our caption contest judging panel to help select the winner and finalists in this month’s competition. The contest featured a drawing by Todd…
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