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 hair. Days run together when one is sheltering in place, so perhaps a more practical measure of time during this fraught period is length of hair. With many hair…
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“Dinner Date” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
Teresa Burns Parkhurst’s drawing is set in a restaurant, where a squirrel and a dog are sitting at a table, sharing a pizza and a bottle of wine. The squirrel, wine glass in its right hand, is speaking. Assuming the squirrel’s on a first date with the dog, I came up with these four captions:…
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Lazy-itis
Oh, hi. You startled me. I thought I was offline, but clearly, I’m not. I’m supposed to write my usual Monday blog today, but through no fault of my own, I just can’t. Not until I get over this attack of Lazy-itis. It often flares up after a long holiday weekend when my inertia has…
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“Bloody Piano” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
In Tom Chitty’s cartoon, a man is directing a concert pianist’s attention to a gruesome scene. Blood is seeping out of and running down the side of the piano, and pooling on the floor near a shoe that presumably belonged to the unseen victim. I first came up with captions that include a couple of…
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Liam Walsh Cartoons: EXCLUSIVELY on CartoonStock.com
Licensing for New Yorker cartoonist Liam Francis Walsh is now exclusively available on CartoonStock! Liam Francis Walsh is an award-winning cartoonist, author, and illustrator. His cartoons appear in The New Yorker since 2011 and he is the author of two children’s books, “FISH” and “Make a Wish, Henry Bear.” He is currently working on a…
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