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Recent Posts

No Place but Home

May 12, 2020 by Bob Mankoff

Spring is here, and vacation season should be just around the corner. Or is it actually around the corner after that? Or maybe no vacation at all while we’re cornered at home? Whose fault is this? Pretty obvious. Other people. Lots of them. Fortunately, there’s plenty of blame to go around, which is better than…
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Jack Ziegler cartoons

Anatomy of a Cartoon: Triumph of the Introverts

May 11, 2020 by Phil Witte and Rex Hesner

Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind gags to debate what makes a cartoon tick. This week our intrepid critics take a look at introverts. Lockdown … social distance … shelter-in-place. These terms cause the extroverts among us to quail, “Will this ever end?” For another group, however, those concepts are gifts from…
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“Tiny House” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood

May 6, 2020 by Lawrence Wood

In Jon Adams’s drawing, a bearded man with long white hair is standing barefoot in the doorway of a small house in the woods and saying something to a disgruntled woman who’s walking away with a duffle bag.  He looks reluctant to move beyond the doorway, and his left arm is extended back into the…
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Anatomy of a Cartoon: Uh-Oh, The News

May 5, 2020 by Phil Witte and Rex Hesner

Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind gags to debate what makes a cartoon tick. This week our intrepid critics take a look at THE NEWS. The news these days is grim, but here’s a truism: bad news is often good news for cartoonists. An effective cartoon in bad times captures the dismal…
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George Booth cartoons

Mom’s the Word

May 4, 2020 by Bob Mankoff

Mother’s Day is on the way. Six days and counting. Mother’s Day has been going on since 1908, which, coincidentally, is the year my mother Mollie was born. Just a coincidence? I think yes. I owe a lot to my mom. She discouraged me from being a cartoonist, and without that discouragement, I wouldn’t have…
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Leo Cullum Cartoons: EXCLUSIVELY on CartoonStock.com

April 29, 2020 by CartoonStock

Licensing for New Yorker cartoonist Leo Cullum is now exclusively available on CartoonStock! Leo Cullum, a TWA pilot, was a cartoonist The New Yorker for 33 years. Cullum published 819 cartoons in The New Yorker, many gathered in the collections “Scotch & Toilet Water?,” a book of dog cartoons; “Cockatiels for Two” (cats); “Tequila Mockingbird”…
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