You might even try your hand at entering this week’s contest for the sake of exercising your own funny muscles. Well, partner, I humbly request you mosey on over to The New Yorker‘s website and cast your vote. Though admittedly, I just like things that make me laugh, and The New Yorker comics are some of the best pieces of humor out there. And in parallel fashion I have been attempting to cultivate my own chops as an amateur humorist mainly for theological and spiritual purposes, including exercising myself with this weekly contest. I personally have been studying comedy/humor and its connection to the Christian faith for a little while (see examples here, here, here, here, and here). Your cartoons have long been a Mockingbird favorite due to their pithy and perceptive one-line analyses of a wary humanity. So thank you, The New Yorker for this wonderfully ego-boosting honor. Is that too much to ask? Maybe I’m too oblique for them.Īlas, Ebert did eventually win a couple of years later in Contest #281 (after entering the contest 107 times) with this caption:īeing a finalist is a lifetime highlight for me that’s up there with getting married, having kids, and being ordained. It’s that just once I want to see one of my damn captions in the magazine that publishes the best cartoons in the world. It’s not that I think my cartoon captions are better than anyone else’s, although some weeks, understandably, I do.
New yorker cartoon caption contest archive for free#
If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.” I have done more writing for free for the New Yorker in the last five years than for anybody in the previous 40 years. Mark Twain advised: “Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you.
I have entered the New Yorker’s cartoon caption contest almost weekly virtually since it began, and have never even been a finalist. People may submit their caption ideas online, and then the thousands of submisisons are whittled down to three finalists that are left to a popular vote for choosing the one winner. Just becoming a finalist in the contest is such a ridiculously improbable honor that Ebert once had this to say: If you’re unfamiliar, each week the magazine publishes an un-finished cartoon in need of a caption. Since I have your attention, I am going to take the opportunity to say a few words about this famously cool albeit geeky contest whose devotees have included the likes of film critic Roger Ebert and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. This isn’t just a self-promoting plug though. So I am shamelessly begging you to go to /humor/caption to vote for your favorite caption (hopefully mine, please) in Contest #399 by Sunday.
I recently received some of the most exciting news of my life: I am a finalist in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest this week, Oct.
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