Caption Contest Commentary

In Amy Kurzweil’s cartoon, a young woman in a bathrobe is showing another woman, who’s fully though casually dressed, her bedroom closet. Inside the closet, neatly arranged on the shelves, are several large jars, each of which contains a human brain floating in some kind of solution and attached to tubes. The woman in the…
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This month the cartoonist, Lynn Hsu, joined our panel of judges. Her drawing is set on a residential street where a realtor is showing to a potentially interested buyer a huge cat tower that’s for sale. The realtor is gesturing toward the property and saying something. Hsu’s original caption reconciles the disparate elements (cats and…
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This month the cartoonist, Juan Astasio Soriano, joined our panel of judges from Madrid. His drawing is set on a busy sidewalk, where two tiny aliens with ray guns have emerged from their flying saucers. They’re surrounded by and at risk of being squashed to death by huge pedestrians, whom we see only from the…
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This month the cartoonist, Dan Misdea, joined our panel of judges. His drawing is set in a living room, where a man and woman are sitting on their couch. They’re surrounded by beavers, most of whom are gnawing on the furniture. One beaver is on the woman’s head and another is on her right shoulder….
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Chris Weyant’s cartoon is set in a living room, where an old woman is sitting next to and addressing The Hulk, who has just transformed into his enraged, green, monstrous self. Weyant’s original caption—“I don’t know why I even bother to talk politics with you”—explains what made him so mad. Many of you offered alternative…
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John Klossner’s cartoon is set in a conference room where a horde of Vikings, who have burst through the door, are standing around two men and a woman who are seated at the conference table. One of the men is looking at his computer tablet and saying something. John’s original caption—“But first, some old business”—addresses…
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