New Yorker cartoonist Julia Suits submitted the drawing for this month’s contest, which features a police officer who’s ordered a dog in a convertible to pull over to the side of the road. Sitting next to the dog is a cat, and in the backseat is a second dog. The police officer is writing a…
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Eisner Award-winning illustrator Peter Kuper (with whom I’ve collaborated on cartoons that have appeared in The New Yorker and MAD, where Peter has been drawing the Spy vs. Spy feature for almost thirty years) submitted the cartoon for this month’s caption contest. It’s set in a doctor’s office, where an overweight physician holds a cigar…
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“Dog with Wings” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
New Yorker cartoonist J.C. Duffy submitted the drawing for this month’s caption contest. It’s set in a living room, where a happy dog with wings is hovering in the air and addressing a middle-age balding man who’s wearing pants pulled up a little too high on his waist. On the wall to the dog’s right…
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“Cat Rap” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
New Yorker cartoonist Farley Katz submitted the drawing for this month’s caption contest. Unfortunately, he wasn’t available to help us judge the entries because he was promoting his upcoming graphic novel, “UNALIVE THE BILLIONAIRE$.” I haven’t seen it yet, but based on Katz’s past work I’m assuming it’s dark and brilliant and funny. Timely, too. …
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“Adam and Eve and the Leaves” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro helped judge this month’s contest, which featured his drawing and elicited more than 500 entries. (If you like Toro’s work, you can find two of his best cartoons on pages 115 and 214 of my book on the caption contest.) The drawing is set in the Garden of Eden, where…
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“Fish Lures in Museum” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
New Yorker cartoonist Chris Gural helped us judge this month’s contest, which featured his drawing. It’s set in a museum, where two fish are looking at paintings of lures. The fish on the left is speaking. Chris’s original caption was a pun that alluded to the outrageous cost of collecting original art: “I bought this…
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