There has been a lot of ink spilled about The New Yorker‘s Caption Contest. In this brief interview with the magazine’s Cartoon Editor, we learn that there are sometimes very close calls when it comes to picking a winner. [Full disclosure: the cartoon is mine; my original caption had nothing to do with bagels]
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New Yorker Caption Contest Documentary in the Works
Filming has begun on Made Funny, a documentary web series about The New Yorker’s caption contest. Davis Chambers, who is producing and directing, tells Ink Spill that he’s been “working hard at finding caption contest winners and academics to contribute to the project.” New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein, David Sipress and Joe Dator have sat in front of the cameras
Read moreLiam Walsh’s preliminary drawings for his cartoon in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest
Click here to see early versions of Liam Walsh’s New Yorker Caption Contest cartoon (the cartoon, with its winning caption appears in the current issue, dated Aug.13 & 20, 2012).
Read moreAnatomy of The New Yorker’s Pig at the Complaint Department Cartoon
This week a familiar cartoon showed up on the The New Yorker’s last page as part of its continuing Caption Contest. The cartoon, of a pig at a complaint department, was drawn by Mick Stevens, who has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker for thirty four years . Why was the cartoon familiar? Fans of
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