Caption Contest Commentary

Teresa Burns Parkhurst’s drawing is challenging. It appears to take place at an art exhibit where a small crowd is watching a woman who’s on a bucking car seat that’s spinning around wildly. The woman’s lost one shoe and her hands are in the air. There’s a seat belt, but it’s unbuckled. It’s not clear…
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In Carolita Johnson’s cartoon, two women are sitting on a couch and having tea. Behind the woman who’s speaking is a barefoot man squatting on the back of the couch as if he were a frog. The drawing immediately calls to mind the Brothers Grimm’s “The Frog Prince,” or later versions like Disney’s “The Princess…
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Ellis Rosen has drawn three of those dangerous mythological creatures who bewitched unsuspecting sailors with enchanting music and lured them to their deaths on rocky coasts. Only one of Ellis’s sirens, however, is making music. The other two are using computers, and the one who’s speaking is holding a laptop screen toward an approaching ship….
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Just in time for Passover, Danny Shanahan has delivered an Exodus-themed cartoon. Moses is standing atop Mount Sinai, where he’s receiving the Ten Commandments from God, who’s presenting the Decalogue on a peel, the shovel-like tool that’s used to slide pizzas into and out of ovens. The Commandments are piping hot. Moses’s mouth is closed,…
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Teresa Burns Parkhurst has created a cartoon for our times. It’s set in a kitchen, where a man is preparing a salad and saying something to a woman who’s in a hazmat suit and preparing the entrée. The “Stay Home, Save Lives” campaign (which is being heavily promoted in Chicago, where I live) discourages people…
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John Klossner’s drawing appears to be inspired by that bizarre Cialis commercial in which an older naked couple holds hands while bathing in separate tubs in the middle of nature. Almost all of my captions, therefore, allude to that commercial: “You went to all this trouble and forgot the pill?” “Couldn’t you have drawn inspiration…
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