{"id":9332,"date":"2024-04-08T08:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T12:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cartoonstock.com\/blog\/?p=9332"},"modified":"2026-01-07T07:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:12:18","slug":"dracula-and-the-tailor-caption-contest-commentary-with-lawrence-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonstock.com\/blog\/dracula-and-the-tailor-caption-contest-commentary-with-lawrence-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"“Dracula and the Tailor” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This month\u2019s contest features a drawing by <\/span>New Yorker<\/span><\/i> cartoonist Seth Fleishman<\/a>. It\u2019s set in a tailor\u2019s fitting room, where Dracula is wearing a long black cloak with a blood-red fringe around the collar and looking at himself in a triple dressing mirror. He cannot, of course, see his reflection. Dracula has his back to us, but his tailor is speaking.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like many of Fleishman\u2019s cartoons, this one works as a captionless drawing, but Fleishman originally had Dracula speaking. \u201cIn my version,\u201d Fleishman told us,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dracula was the one talking. The caption was “I vill take your vord\u00a0for it.” Having\u00a0the speaker with his back to the reader was a fun idea, but maybe a reason\u00a0it didn’t work. So, I made the tailor the speaker in the one I sent to you, but never wrote a caption for it.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of you had the tailor make essentially the same joke Fleishman originally considered giving to Dracula: <\/span>\u201cYou\u2019ll just have to take my word for it.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Many of you transformed an ordinary statement into a fitting caption:<\/span><\/p>\n