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Monday, September 15, 2025

My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #959

In The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #959 from the issue of September 15, 2025, a woman carries a pyramid of steaming coffee mugs and speaks to a man who doesn't have any coffee. My entry appears below. The drawing is by Amy Hwang.

"How do you take it?"

September 22, 2025 Update: The Finalists

September 29, 2025 Update: I voted for the medical caption from New York City.

October 11, 2025 Update: The Winner

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Shannon Wheeler: The Only Redeemable Coupon in Life

If ever a character belonged on a coffee mug, it's Shannon Wheeler's Too Much Coffee Man. A promotional drawing from 2016 was one of three used as a part of a wraparound design. The mug informs us that "The only redeemable coupon in life is action," and this drawing is pure hyperkinetic action. The artist sold his original art of the perennially overcaffeinated character in 2017 on Etsy.

Shannon Wheeler
Etsy listing accessed January 8, 2017

https://www.etsy.com/listing/498568011/too-much-coffee-man-original-art?ref=listing-shop-header-2

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Sunday, February 21, 2021

A Coffee Mug for Valentine's Day 2021

One of my Valentine's Day gifts this year is a cartoon mug, shown below with one of our cats slinking by behind it. On the side of the coffee mug is emblazoned a 2013 cartoon that I had never seen before from Rick London's website London's Times Cartoons. The idea is by London and the illustration is credited to Tom Kerr.

I don't pretend to know what this cartoon should have to do with me, but apparently there's a popular conception that the cartoons that appear in a certain magazine are elitist and abstruse, requiring some sort of explication in order for the general public to be able to appreciate them. In the nearly ten years I've been writing this blog, which is often about New Yorker cartoons, it has been a very rare thing indeed for me to feel I had to explain any of them. But then, I don't feel the need to tell bedtime stories either.

https://www.pinterest.ch/pin/36239971974889748/

Note: This mug was purchased from CafePress.com. The cat is from a shelter.

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Friday, September 6, 2019

Duane Keiser: Coffee, Sun and The New Yorker

Artist Duane Keiser (b. 1966) uses eBay as a marketplace in which to sell his paintings. It's a great idea and I wish this business model worked for more artists. Coffee, Sun and The New Yorker is an 8" x 6" painting sold on eBay in 2016. We see a coffee cup but no coffee, sunlight but not the sun, and reading glasses over an open magazine that we are told is the New Yorker. One can make out the black and white columns of the magazine unbroken by spot drawings or cartoons.