Just in time for Passover, Danny Shanahan has delivered an Exodus-themed cartoon. Moses is standing atop Mount Sinai, where he’s receiving the Ten Commandments from God, who’s presenting the Decalogue on a peel, the shovel-like tool that’s used to slide pizzas into and out of ovens. The Commandments are piping hot. Moses’s mouth is closed,…
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Caption Contest Commentary
“Hazmat Kitchen” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
Teresa Burns Parkhurst has created a cartoon for our times. It’s set in a kitchen, where a man is preparing a salad and saying something to a woman who’s in a hazmat suit and preparing the entrée. The “Stay Home, Save Lives” campaign (which is being heavily promoted in Chicago, where I live) discourages people…
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“Separate Tubs” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
John Klossner’s drawing appears to be inspired by that bizarre Cialis commercial in which an older naked couple holds hands while bathing in separate tubs in the middle of nature. Almost all of my captions, therefore, allude to that commercial: “You went to all this trouble and forgot the pill?” “Couldn’t you have drawn inspiration…
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“Beaver Dam” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
Tom Toro’s drawing is set in a kitchen, where two beavers (who appear to be a married couple) are staring at a pile of sticks in the sink. The female beaver is speaking. Because beavers use sticks to build dams near streams and rivers, my first caption is, “Must you every time you hear running…
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“Cinderella” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
Danny Shanahan’s cartoon is set in a bar, where a princess—a Disney princess? Cinderella?—is saying something to the bartender and pushing what appears to be an empty martini glass toward him. Assuming the princess is Cinderella, I tried to figure out why she was drinking: “He seems more charming when I’ve had a few.” “The…
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“Angel and Astronaut” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
Carolita Johnson’s cartoon is set in heaven, where a female angel is addressing an astronaut who’s planted an American flag on the clouds. I first assumed the astronaut was in heaven because he died at work: “You died a hero.” “Apparently you punctured your spacesuit with the flagpole.” “You can take the helmet off now….
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