Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind the gags to debate what makes a cartoon tick. This week our intrepid critics take a look at dessert cartoons. With so much conflict these days, here’s something we can agree on: dessert is good. And yet, dessert poses its own internal conflict: to eat or…
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Best Seller Spotlight: Dave Carpenter
Do you want to catch people’s attention? Maybe you need to make a difficult point — but with a smile? Cartoons give you that power. In fact, the reason a cartoon can be such an effective communication tool for you is because the right one can make the unpalatable, palatable. Dave Carpenter’s mastery of this…
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“Dining Turtles” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
This drawing by Phil Witte, who together with Rex Hesner writes the “Anatomy of a Cartoon” feature for this website, is set in a restaurant, where two large turtles are seated at a table. The turtle on the right is addressing the waiter. Judging by his companion’s and the waiter’s expressions, the turtle has said…
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Best Seller Spotlight: Sam Gross
My dear friend Sam Gross has been cartooning almost as long as I’ve been alive. For nearly seventy years, he’s cranked out over 32,000 cartoons and appeared in almost every magazine that had cartoons, most notably The New Yorker, The National Lampoon, and Esquire. As Cartoon Editor of The New Yorker, I was often asked…
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