Like many of you, I have lost The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest hundreds of times. But I’ve won it more than anyone else, so Bob Mankoff thought I might have something useful to say about the contest he recently started running on this website. Each week I will write about the most recently concluded…
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Cartoon Caption Contest
A Word About Voting…
First of all, thanks to all for entering, voting and sending us feedback on the Cartoon Caption Contest, we’re always looking to improve. We’ve had some questions/concerns/kvetching about the voting process. Why does it take so long to see all the captions? Is it fair? Can’t you do it for us and give us three…
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SEVEN-TIME New Yorker Caption Contest Winner Larry Wood Shares his Insights
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. Let’s face it, most people think they’re pretty funny. Many are wrong. Humor is highly subjective; however, there is one metric which is hard…
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Bob’s Cartoon Chronicle: The Cartoon Caption Contest: Winners, Wordclouds and Advice for Intrepid Entrants
Hello to everyone … who has entered our Cartoon Caption Contests or only voted or loitered around CartoonStock.com for any reason at all. Welcome! Feel free to enter our contests, take our money, search our cartoons and if the mood strikes you, damn it, license one of them. That’s the actual purpose of CartoonStock. To…
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