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“Demon in the Parking Lot” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
This month we were joined by David Borchart. Unlike his fellow New Yorker cartoonists who think of jokes and then draw them up, David comes up with the drawing first and then tries to think of a fitting caption. In other words, he does what everyone who enters the caption contest is trying to do. …
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“Stick a Fork in it” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
This month we were joined by cartoonist Derek Evernden. His drawing is set in a restaurant, where a young couple are no longer enjoying what was a romantic dinner. The woman is sitting with her arms folded across her chest after having just used a fork to stab her date in the forehead. Her man…
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“Injured Egg” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
This month’s contest featured a cartoon by the legendary Mick Stevens, whose work has appeared regularly in The New Yorker since 1979. It’s also featured on the cover of my book, which I’m hoping you’ll buy: In Stevens’ cartoon, two anthropomorphic and identically dressed eggs are standing in front of a high brick wall. One…
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“Clown Wrestler” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
This month we were joined by New Yorker cartoonist Rich Sparks, whose band, The Last Afternoons, just released their latest album, “Deadfall.” You should buy it, along with Sparks’s cartoon collection, “Love and Other Weird Things,” which Roz Chast blurbed even though she says she is “trying to get out of the blurb game.” Sparks’s…
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“Fairytale Ending” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
This month’s contest featured a drawing by New Yorker cartoonist Glen Le Lievre. It’s set in a dingy apartment, where a princess who’s wearing a hennin—a headdress in the shape of a cone—is sitting on a couch next to a fat unicorn who’s smoking. They’re watching TV. The end table next to the unicorn, and…
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