Caption Contest Commentary

Last month’s contest featured a drawing by Isabella Bannerman, who worked on Pee-wee’s Playhouse and is, along with five other women (including New Yorker cartoonist Mary Lawton), one of the panel artists for the syndicated daily comic strip “Six Chix.”  Isabella’s drawing is set in a restaurant in hell, where a demon waiter is holding…
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New Yorker cartoonist Rusty Epstein helped judge last month’s caption contest, which featured his drawing. It’s set in a front yard, where a fireman and a little girl are looking at an elephant who’s stuck in a tree and sitting on a branch. The girl is saying or yelling something to the elephant. It looks…
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Last month’s contest, which elicited more than 500 entries, featured a drawing by New Yorker cartoonist Kaamran Hafeez, who joined our judges’ panel to help choose the winning entry and five runners-up. I was out of town when the judging happened, but prior to leaving I selected my top ten entries and sent them along…
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Last month’s contest featured a captionless drawing by New Yorker cartoonist Lindsey Budde, who helped judge the entries. Her work is great, and you can see more of it at CartoonStock and on her website: lindseybudde.com.  Lindsey’s drawing is set in the shallow end of a swimming pool, where two mothers are standing in waist…
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Last month’s contest featured a captionless drawing by New Yorker cartoonist Tim Hamilton, who helped judge the more than 500 entries. If you like his work as much as we do, check out his website and podcast. Hamilton’s drawing is set in a bar, where two human-size fish are sitting next to each other on…
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BIG NEWS: Bob Mankoff is now a grandfather! Last Thursday his daughter gave birth to what Bob described as an “eight-pound eight-ounce bundle of boy” named Whittier David Dunn, whom everyone is calling Whit. Congratulations to Bob and his entire expanding family.  Now on to our contest, which featured a captionless drawing by New Yorker…
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