Hey, times flies when you’re being as funny as Sam Gross. He got his first cartoon published in The New Yorker 50 years ago this August and over 432 have followed that one. Here are three Sam Gross New Yorker classics that will be funny 50 years from now. There’s no doubt…
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The Current Cartoon Caption Contest
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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SAM GROSS AT THE NEW YORKER!
“Ancient Mariner” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
In Joe Dator’s cartoon, the Ancient Mariner from Coleridge’s poem is standing barefoot and alone at a cocktail party, with the albatross tied around his neck. To his left, a female guest says something to her partner. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge’s longest poem, is about a sailor who recounts his story of…
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“Math TV” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
In Robert Leighton’s cartoon, a woman standing next to a large, wall-mounted flat-screen TV is addressing a man who’s sitting in an armchair and pointing a remote control at the screen, on which there appears an extremely complicated math problem. Seeing a couple and a TV made me think of the now-common phrase, “Netflix and…
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Anatomy of a Cartoon: The Dog Days of Summer
Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind gags to debate what makes a cartoon tick. This week our intrepid critics take a look at those last sweltering days of summer. The last half of August gathers in anxiety as it hurtles towards Labor Day. Last minute vacations are hastily arranged as the frenetic…
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