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Recent Posts

Stay Tooned Issue #10

November 8, 2022 by Trevor Hoey

Welcome to the latest issue of STAY TOONED, where you’ll find everything you ever wanted to know about cartoons. Each month, we bring you updates and features on the world of cartooning, including cartoonist profiles and interviews, book excerpts, special cartoon features, cartoon games such as the Caption Contest, products, and so much more.

Anatomy of a Cartoon: Gifts

November 8, 2022 by Phil Witte and Rex Hesner

Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind the gags to debate what makes a cartoon tick. This week our intrepid critics take a look at Gifts. As the winter holidays loom, it’s not too early to think about gifts. Gift-giving can be a chore or a pleasure, but it’s a tradition that is…
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A Cartoon for Every Room

November 7, 2022 by Trevor Hoey

Ready or not, the news is always happening. Good or bad, these popular news cartoons will generate some grins in your next newsletter, social, or email campaign.

“Huge Fingerprint” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood

October 24, 2022 by Lawrence Wood

This month we have, courtesy of Lars Kenseth, a crime scene. A plainclothes detective is saying something to a uniformed police officer, who’s dusting a huge fingerprint on the wall of a room that’s been cordoned off with yellow barrier tape. Kenseth’s original caption was: “I don’t want to put the cart before the horse,…
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Stay Tooned Issue #9

October 11, 2022 by Trevor Hoey

Welcome to the latest issue of STAY TOONED, where you’ll find everything you ever wanted to know about cartoons. Each month, we bring you updates and features on the world of cartooning, including cartoonist profiles and interviews, book excerpts, special cartoon features, cartoon games such as the Caption Contest, products, and so much more.

Anatomy of a Cartoon: Cocktails

October 11, 2022 by Phil Witte and Rex Hesner

Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind the gags to debate what makes a cartoon tick. This week our intrepid critics take a look at Cocktails. Cocktails have made a comeback, not that they ever went away. They moved from the bar to the suburban home and back to the bar in the…
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