Two salmon board Noah's Ark in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #889 from the issue of March 18, 2024. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Mads Horwath.
"We're just going upstream." |
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I laughed at the Lorax, "You poor stupid guy! You never can tell what some people will buy." --Dr. Seuss
An original watercolor by Heinrich Kley (1863-1945?) depicts the towers of the Munich Frauenkirche. The German seller of this piece, Kunkel Fine Art, dates the work to 1910.
Heinrich Kley AbeBooks listing accessed March 17, 2024 |
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Price in Euros |
Photo by David Iliff. License: CC BY-SA 3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frauenkirche,_Munich#/media/File:Frauenkirche_Munich_-_View_from_Peterskirche_Tower2.jpg |
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The menu and wine list covers, front and back, for Welton's Restaurant of Worcester, Massachusetts, circa 1947, are designed by none other than cartoonist William Steig. Such a menu would no doubt be hard if not impossible to find today. Nevertheless, a giclee print reproduction can readily be had for $25 from Vintage Menu Art.
"No extra charge for ginger ale or soda highballs. Coca Cola 5¢ extra." |
William Steig Website accessed January 20, 2024 |
William Steig Item description |
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The MDLinx Comic Consult is a caption contest open only to physicians with a funny bone and an NPI number. Prizes are a $100 Amazon gift card for first place, and $50 gift cards for up to four runners up. I've won three $50 gift cards for contests #12, #13, and #14, so I am eager to see if I now can get back in the game. In contest #17, we find a witch in a hospital bed with a staffer and some others in attendance. Five entries are permitted; you know I wouldn't submit fewer. The MDLinx cartoon, as usual, is by Jonny Hawkins.
"I'm sure I just sent in a team of specialists." "Visiting hours are over." "I thought the medical students were taller." "Well, they don't look familiar to me." "Our treatments are all-natural." |
March 16, 2024 Update: The Winner
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All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.As You Like It
Photo by Wendy Powers |
Photo by Wendy Powers |
Photo by Wendy Powers |
Photo by Wendy Powers |
Photo by Wendy Powers |
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Cartoonist William Steig, throughout his long career, saw his style reinvent itself time and again. Nevertheless, his illustration of a home restaurant doesn't seem typical of Steig's work of any period, although it does seem to belong squarely to mainstream 1950s magazine illustration.
William Steig's signature |
William Steig New York City Estate Auction listing accessed January 20, 2024 |
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In the CartoonStock Caption Contest #177, the white knight is on the witness stand as the trial is played out on a chess board. The rules of the monthly cash prize contest have not changed and neither has my description of them: five dollars buys up to three entries. Real cash prizes are $500 for first place and $100 for each of five runners up. As of this writing, I've put $110 into the first twenty-two pay-to-play contests and this twenty-third challenge brings my total cash outlay up to $115. Having had two previous runner-up entries, I've collected $200, so I'm still playing with the house's money, thank goodness. In fact, so few contestants enter that the odds are generally favorable even to us less-gifted caption writers—and chess players. My three entries are shown below, above the break. The cartoonist is Bob Eckstein.
March 16, 2024 Update: The Winner
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"I told him that I'm not really spoiled, I just want my own way!" Mischa Richter Original comic panel art Strictly Richter, October 22, 1958 |
"Take a good look. This will probably never happen again."" Mischa Richter Original comic panel art Strictly Richter, September 10, 1956 |
Mischa Richter eBay listing ended December 6, 2023 https://www.ebay.com/itm/355163873807?itmmeta=01HQMB2Z4KBZZ7S3JM0S085BP1&hash=item52b16aa20f:g:PA4AAOSw9aNlRkN9&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwG5JA6AQPo6SL09f4QLWjWU42ShtnDAU5WPA2I932nn5RJG%2F7en76tcDuGgLNcWp0EG6nmi0Tn8I1qbLT9%2FsufqfbotoHR7 PAeafaBAOzzYHK6jPkxxBFUvkKTY8SqFo7%2FEOkgR9qMUVCLr7kaW%2FwKc%2F2rmdKOXgrOL2mJd6EDfCDNLzHGZCcgAtUjK%2FClaM45JmoDDkUDkdVTYpnnmxsYHuPR%2BXI5Saq64m1XIscHl2j6qqZhlz0XFyDhaYcrFcHw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6zyi4u9Yw |
Mischa Richter eBay item description |
Mischa Richter eBay bid history As I never get tired of saying, the latest bid gets it |
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