Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #498 for November 16, 2015. The double-edged drawing is by Jack Ziegler.
November 23, 2015 Update: The Finalists
December 7, 2015 Update: Winning Caption
Note: Last week Zachary Kanin bellied up to the bar with a locomotive. My caption just didn't have any steam. Chug along with the results of Contest #497.
Jack Ziegler is one of the funniest cartoonists in the world, so of course you can see more of his work on this blog.
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| "The deal's off! I'm going to rule England!" |
Would you like to see how I arrived at this? Here's the full caption progression:
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| "Miss Baxter, I asked for a pen!" "Miss Baxter, do we have anything mightier than the sword?" "Guess what? I'm going to rule England!" "I have to cancel. I'm going to rule England!" "The deal's off. I'm going to rule England!" |
November 21, 2015 Update: This caption contest was the first to use a crowd-sourced survey to select the finalists. This is the subject of some discussion in the comments section. The online survey presented 25 captions. You were asked to rate each as funny, somewhat funny, or unfunny. Names of the contest entrants were not associated with the captions. The survey did not forbid multiple entries and different captions came up each time. Here are some examples of what it looked like. As you can see, they do not appear to be prescreened.
November 23, 2015 Update: The Finalists
December 7, 2015 Update: Winning Caption
Note: Last week Zachary Kanin bellied up to the bar with a locomotive. My caption just didn't have any steam. Chug along with the results of Contest #497.
Jack Ziegler is one of the funniest cartoonists in the world, so of course you can see more of his work on this blog.
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