Today we bring you an extra special guest post by my good friend, the talented New Yorker cartoonist Bob Eckstein. We believe Bob is the only cartoonist to be published in MAD magazine, The New Yorker, Playboy, National Lampoon AND SPY magazine. And for the record, many of those titles are not running anymore. Bob is the Cartoon Editor for Princeton Architectural Press’s…
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“Wicker Man” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
Our second $1,000 contest was not easy. I came up with just one caption—“Jewish firms have a Golem”—but we received a bunch of strong entries from you. This month’s judges included our regulars—Bob Mankoff, Trevor Hoey, Joel Mishon, and I—plus Ellis Rosen, who drew the cartoon. We rated the submissions independently without knowing the entrants’…
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Stay Tooned Issue #6
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: Television
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 Television. The news is coming thick and fast these days: congressional hearings, court decisions, armed conflicts. We get updates on our phone apps, but lots of content still…
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Want An Easy Way To Write Jokes?
BUY THIS CARTOON Easy, but that doesn’t always mean quick! Before you start drawing cartoons or thinking up captions for competitions, the first skill you want to develop is an easy method of stimulating your own imagination to come up with lots of different thoughts and ideas that you can build upon. If you have…
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