Caption Contest Commentary

Last month’s contest featured a drawing by New Yorker cartoonist Sofia Warren, who unfortunately couldn’t join our judging panel but did review all the entries and send us her top ten. Sofia’s drawing is set in a bedroom, where a woman is in bed and on her smart phone. Under her bed is a monster,…
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Cartoonist Bill Whitehead helped judge last month’s contest, which featured his drawing of a creature who looks like Bigfoot talking to a group of reporters, one of whom has a camera, in the woods. The creature’s nose is unusually large and he looks weary, as though he’s tired of the reporters’ questions. Bill’s original caption…
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Last month’s contest featured a drawing by New Yorker cartoonist P.C. Vey. He didn’t join us for the judging video—he claims to be camera-shy—but he did send us his top ten entries.  Vey’s drawing, set in the middle of an arid wasteland, is just the latest variation on the “man crawling through the desert” trope….
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Because of this past weekend’s horrific mass shootings at Brown University in Rhode Island and at the Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia, we came very close to pulling the following commentary on our 200th caption contest, which featured a drawing by New Yorker cartoonist Liam Francis Walsh. It’s set in a living room, where a…
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New Yorker cartoonist Kate Isenberg helped us judge last month’s contest, which featured her drawing. Coincidentally, another one of Kate’s drawings (which is set in a classroom where a canine teacher is holding a globe that’s a tennis ball and saying something to the students) was featured in last week’s New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest. …
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Last month’s contest featured a cartoon by Nate Fakes, who joined our judging panel. His drawing is set in heaven, where two angels are looking at another angel who’s carrying more than his fair share of halos and wearing a backpack that’s overflowing with them. One of the onlooker angels is addressing the other. Nate…
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