Caption Contest Commentary

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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Hello Caption Contest fans! Lawrence Wood is off enjoying the Irish coast and I’m filling in this week. Last month’s contest featured a drawing by cartoonist Nathan Cooper. Here we have a woman opening the door to two chefs and one is clearly speaking. The Chefs may be identical but clearly are visiting the woman…
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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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