My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #566

Avast, ye landlubbers! Here be me entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #566 for April 24, 2017. The drawing be rendered by Mick Stevens.

"I never expected a happy ending."

May 1, 2017 Update:  The Finalists

May 8, 2017 Update:  I voted for the first caption, of course.


May 15, 2017 Update:  Winning Caption

Not that you asked, but the caption I chose came in third.


Note:  Last week, cartoonist P. C. Vey was absolutely on fire, but my caption apparently wasn't. Light up and enjoy Contest #565.

How many other blogs do you suppose can offer posts about both Mick Stevens and Herman Melville? Not too many, I'll wager.

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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #434

Here is my latest entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #434 for July 7, 2014. The cartoon is by Drew Dernavich.

"Not that song again. Sing 'Peg o' My Heart.'"

The truth is, this cartoon gave me an inordinate amount of trouble. Perhaps you can tell. Here are some of the caption ideas which didn't make the cut.

"And can ye reimagine me for the Broadway stage?"
"You can have Toto back for, say, a white whale."
"Spear me your song and dance."
"What a motley crew!"
"Hast seen the Wicked Witch or the White Whale?"
"Literary classic trumps children's classic."
"You strain credulity."

Charles Harrison - "Peg o' My Heart" (1913)

By Alfred Bryan and Fred Fisher from "Ziegfeld Follies."

Jerry Murad's Harmonicats (1961)

July 21, 2014 Update: The Finalists

August 4, 2014 Update:  Winning Caption

Today you might say the physiatrist, right, Mr. Murphy?

Note:  Last week's New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest featured a preposterous Tom Cheney cartoon that was kind of upside-down. My caption was, I thought, brilliant, only it turns out it wasn't. See the tragic results of Contest #434.

Then there's Drew Dernavich. Why is it so hard for me to write a decent caption for any of his cartoons?

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The Illustrated Moby-Dick

On February 23, Swann Galleries sold a copy of this 1979 limited edition (250 unnumbered copies) of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick with woodcut illustrations by Barry Moser. I've never seen a copy, but it certainly appears to be a beautifully designed and illustrated book.

Sale 2269 Lot 25

- Feb 23 2012 13:30

(ARION PRESS.) Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick, or, The Whale. Printed in blue and black on handmade paper bearing a whale watermark. 100 woodcut illustrations by Barry Moser. Folio, full blue Moroccan goatskin, spine slightly but evenly darkened, joints and ends lightly rubbed; internally clean; blue cloth slipcase, unevenly faded and with some surface marks. San Francisco, 1979 

Estimate $5,000-7,500  

Sold for $8,500

one of 250 unnumbered copies of the first trade edition of the Arion Press edition, designed by Andrew Hoyem. One of the greatest achievements in modern bookmaking.

catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2269++++++25+&refno=++656189&saletype=

- Feb 23 2012 13:30 

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