My Entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for Spring 2025

Moment magazine's Cartoon Caption Contest for the Spring 2025 issue shows an elderly woman and man sitting on a park bench. The woman prepares to eat a sandwich. The man, oblivious, is feeding a bird. Cupid hovers above the woman, arrow drawn. The woman observes him and speaks. My six entries are shown below; I think the first is the best. The drawing is by that old-time romantic, Benjamin Schwartz.

"Matchmaker, matchmaker, just let me snack."
"What do you mean, a match for the ages?"
"I left my heart in Coney Island."

"I'll take my sandwich over your shidduch."
"Golda Meir always said you'd find me."
"You don't want to mess with this bubbie."

June 14, 2025 Update:  The Finalists

September 14, 2025 Update:  The Winner

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Twelve by Ed Arno

Back in 2013 a group of twelve ink drawings by cartoonist Ed Arno were sold on eBay for an undisclosed sum, likely about $10 each. Many of them have printer's marks indicating publication. A few captions are missing, and a few are unreadable in these photos. Some of the drawings appear to be annotated with dates and the time period would seem to be the Cold War. These could very well date from the 1960's.

Ed Arno, "Don't blame me. It must have been that damned $49 miniture[sic] electronic calculator." -- "Understand the Russians are way ahead of us in TV--they have far fewer sets."

Ed Arno, The day Wall Street stopped asking its own questions and started asking Broadway's questions (L) -- [Persuading the dog] (R)

Ed Arno, "Good news! Everybody in the block has agreed to run their snowblowers and lawnmowers at stated periods so we can enjoy interludes of silence!" (L) -- "Not the big apple?" (R)

Ed Arno, Cupid

For comparison, a variant of Cupid appeared in the November 3 post:

eBay Listing Ended December 16, 2013http://www.ebay.com/itm/12-Original-Art-Drawings-Ed-Arno-1916-2008-Signed-New-Yorker-Magazine-Artist-/181279699355?pt=Art_Drawings&hash=item2a351cb19b&nma=true&si=UB68sj2DvLx%252F9kdb54zXrlCgzYs%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

eBay Listing Ended December 16, 2013

Note:  There's a lot more here in the archives about Ed Arno including other examples of original cartoon art.

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Four Drawings by Ed Arno

Four drawings by Ed Arno with unknown publication history were sold on eBay for $65 each in March and April of this year. Something must have gone wrong with the sale as later they soon returned to the marketplace priced at $75, or at least two of them did. The subject matter of the cartoons is quite varied, including mother's milk, a tapeworm's life cycle, puppy love, and a figure skating competition of sorts.

Note:  There's a lot more to read in the blog archives about the prolific Ed Arno and about original cartoon art in general. Information about the publication history of any of these drawings would be welcome.

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