In The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #990 from the issue of May 11 & 18, 2026, a couple sitting in a car are stopped at a chicken crossing indicated by a road sign. As they wait for the many chickens to pass, the man, who sits in the driver's seat, speaks. My submission is shown below. The drawing is by Mort Gerberg.
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| "Don't you know any other jokes?" |
May 25, 2026 Update: The Finalists
June 7, 2026 Update: I voted for the caption from Harrison.
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Two illustrations from the children's book Bakery Business (1983) by cartoonist W. B. Park were sold on eBay last fall.
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| W. B. Park eBay listing ended September 25, 2025 |
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| W. B. Park eBay item description |
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| W. B. Park eBay listing ended October 3, 2025 |
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| W. B. Park eBay item description |
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Listed on the AbeBooks website during the weekend of November 8the to 9th, a signed copy of George Booth's 1975 classic cartoon collection Think Good Thoughts About a Pussycat is dated 5 March 1976 and includes an original drawing of a chicken. It is offered by Magnolia Books and More of Ecru, Mississippi, which also lists it on eBay. Mississippi is Booth's home state but this copy is not dedicated to any particular individual.
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| George Booth AbeBooks listing accessed November 9, 2025 |
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| George Booth AbeBooks item description |
November 23, 2025 Update: The eBay seller is looking to make a deal.
At post time, the Booth book is still available for $600. Does it help that shipping is free?
January 22, 2026 Updates: The price on eBay is now $500.
Note: There's always room here for more George Booth art. Any reader who's got a book he sketched in or an original drawing, please send photos.
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It's time to join the police procedural in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #778 from the issue of November 1, 2021. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Drew Dernavich.
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| "We just can't figure out the timeline." |
November 13, 2021 Update: The Finalists
November 21, 2021 Update: I was tempted to vote for the caption from Vancouver, the most similar to my own, but I found "timeline of events" to be cumbersome, if not redundant. Instead I went with the caption from Terre Haute, which I think is funnier anyway.
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David from Manhattan writes with a photo of a very special copy of a 1976 collection by New Yorker cartoonist George Booth.
The attached is the front free endpaper for Rehearsal's Off! According to Jeffrey Long of Long Brothers Rare Books in Seattle, it was in the estate of artist Guy Anderson, who spent nearly his whole life in Washington. I was kind of hoping Booth had known Anderson, but a note from his daughter Sarah, makes that doubtful...Price was $175.
Note: David from Manhattan comes through again with this, his 43rd contribution to this blog. Thanks, David.
The blog archives include Kay Sexton's somewhat related copy of the book here. Ms. Sexton managed the first B. Dalton Bookseller and her copy of Rehearsal's Off! also boast a Booth drawing featuring poultry and a pig.
Artist Guy Anderson's Wikipedia page leads with a disambiguation note so amusing I just have to share it:
Meanwhile, George Booth's Wikipedia page mistakenly dates Rehearsal's Off! (1976) to 1977. More seriously, it misdates Think Good Thoughts About a Pussycat (1975).
Original drawings by George Booth, particularly those which are, like Chicken yard with dancing shoat, new to the internet, are what makes a blog like this one dance in a chicken yard—metaphorically speaking. Your contributions welcome.
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| The Essential George Booth New York: Workman Publishing Co., 1990 |
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| Inscribed "9/10/'99 Nick [Delbanco] and Ellen [Greenhouse] and Richard [Elman] and Alice [Elman] and the rest of us. I am privileged. And if that is a little sticky sounding I'll bear up. And, oh yes. A chicken for Nick, G. Booth," |
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| George Booth AbeBooks Listing Retrieved October 2, 2018 |
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| History for Sale Listing Copied June 26, 2016 |
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"Chicken with forty cloves of garlic!.....How does that sound?"
George Booth, Original art
Published as "Chicken with forty cloves of garlic! How does that sound?" The New Yorker, January 21, 1980, page 106 |
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| George Booth, The New Yorker, January 21, 1980, page 106 |
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| "Chicken with forty cloves of garlic! How does that sound?" George Booth, The New Yorker, January 21, 1980, page 106 |
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| "The food isn't anything special but you do get fast service." George Booth, Original art Published as "The food is nothing special, but you do get quick service." The New Yorker, January 4, 1982, page 37 |
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| George Booth, The New Yorker, January 4, 1982, page 37 |
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| "The food is nothing special, but you do get quick service." George Booth, The New Yorker, January 4, 1982, page 37 |
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| George Booth, Original art The New Yorker, October 22, 1979, page 48 |
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| George Booth, The New Yorker, October 22, 1979, page 48 |
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| George Booth, The New Yorker, October 22, 1979, page 48 |
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| Christie's London, March 21, 2013, Lot 102 |
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| Item Description |
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| Condition Report |
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| Detail of English Bull Terrier |
