Like they say, the more things change the more they stay the same. Two things I will never tire of reading, Roz Chast’s Theories and Dog Cartoons (even if the cell phone is unrecognizable).Īs always, this trip down memory lane brought up a few memories. One evergreen theme, just how cute and wonderfully exasperating children can be, is well covered here. This Ed Koren cartoon could have been published last week or appeared in the Barbie movie. The progressive future and the stalled efforts at reaching it are present in this batch. Sam Gross seems prescient with what could be a take on the current Writers Strike with the below cartoon. It seemed just this summer that the ultra rich dying in a submersible was novel but apparently not. They liked both captions but overwhelmingly preferred New Yorker Cartoon Caption 2 Maybe. SEVEN-TIME New Yorker Caption Contest Winner Larry Wood Shares his Insights Decemby CartoonStock If the number of caption submissions we receive (and the number of cartoon suggestions the average cartoonist fields each week) are any indication, within the hearts of many lies a frustrated cartoonist. Here is a Bruce Eric Kaplan cartoon that caught me off guard. Michael Jones Director at Ocilla Partners 3d Edited My bcc list and LinkedIn followers have spoken. Here is another cartoon a young person would have to Google. I’m fairly surprised The New Yorker ran it. Speaking of Bob Mankoff, here is one of his cartoons that make absolutely no sense unless you were watching cable news in 1998. Also, Bob Mankoff was cartoon editor and selected this Leo Cullum cartoon to poke some fun at a terrible fashion trend, cargo pants. The Dow Jones passed 9,000, Viagra was introduced, Michael Jordan could still dunk and Google was founded. They pick the top 3 submitted cap-tions and ask the readers to pick the weekly winner.
Figures 1 and 2) and ask readers to come up with a funny caption for it. Each week, the editors post a car-toon (cf. Handelsman, Charles Barsotti, Leo Cullum, Danny Shanahan, Gahan Wilson, Jack Ziegler, William Hamilton, Ed Koren, Michael Crawford, Robert Weber and Sam Gross.ġ998 was a simpler time when Russia was near collapse and American presidents were embroiled in sex scandals. 10,140 followers Author of 382 books including On the Road Follow author Autobiographical novels, such as On the Road (1957) and The Dharma Bums (1958), of American writer Jack Kerouac, originally Jean-Louis Kerouac, embody the values of the Beat Generation. The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest has been running for more than 10 years. As always, I’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the growing number of cartoonists no longer with us: J.B. Some cartoons simply no longer make sense, but others really demonstrate just how slow progress can be. It’s always fascinating to see how much (or how little) has changed over a quarter of a century. Today we revisit cartoons published in August of 1998, 25 years ago.
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