Those cavewomen seem to have come up with a novel idea in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #900 from the issue of June 10, 2024. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Liza Donnelly.
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| "Lately I've been getting bored with the wheel." |
June 23, 2023 Update: The Finalists
June 30, 2024 Update: I voted for the caption from Chicago.
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I might have to take a little heat for my entries in the CartoonStock Caption Contest #148. My captions are shown below. The cave drawing is by Mick Stevens.
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| "Let's not ruin it by inventing a smoke alarm." "Care to come over to my wall?" "Who knew we could fit everything into a studio?" |
February 15, 2022 Update: My first caption was noted by Lawrence Wood in his Caption Contest Commentary. This is my sixteenth mention there.
February 16, 2022 Update: The Winner
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I wore my best loincloth while working through The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #755 from the issue of May 17, 2021. I'm not sure it helped. The drawing is by Amy Hwang.
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| "Before I have my coffee I'm an absolute Neanderthal." |
These captions were a little too primitive:
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| "Maybe you could bring me up to date." "Well, look who's been busy inventing!" "Mind if I pull up a rock and join you?" "There's no F. The sign distinctly says CAVE." "What's wrong with living in the past?" |
May 25, 2021 Update: The Finalists
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Go through the online archive of any New Yorker cartoonist and you'll very likely be impressed by the myriad inventive scenarios and compositions. The variety is simply stunning. It's a surprisingly rare thing when a cartoon closely resembles an earlier one by the same artist, but it does happen. This week, while reading the Cartoon Issue, I felt a spark of recognition. A caveman gag by Mick Stevens put a nice contemporary spin on an old phrase. But at the same time, it made me wonder somewhat incongruously: had I seen it before?
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| All dressed up and nowhere to go Mick Stevens The New Yorker, December 28, 2020, page 25 |
Well, of course I had not. But what I had seen five years ago was another caveman cartoon by Mick Stevens, one that was just as at home in pre-pandemic times as this week's cartoon is today. Still, it was close enough that I had to check. Sometimes you just have to see them side by side.
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| Mick Stevens The New Yorker, December 21, 2015, page 38 |
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| "I've finally found something in your price range." "It's a bit of a hole-in-the-wall." "You said you wanted rustic." "What are your feelings about grizzlies?" "Prepare yourself. It's a bit of a fixer-upper." |
