My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #940

The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #940 appeared in the issue of April 14, 2025. A meteorologist stands before a weather map while an indoor rain cloud soaks her. She is the on-air speaker. My entry appears below. The drawing is by Mick Stevens.

"Just in from Washington—retribution."

April 26, 2025 Update:  The Finalists

 

May 3, 2025 Update:  I voted for the caption from New York.

May 9, 2025 Update:  The Winner

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Whitney Darrow, Jr.: Creative Block

Original art from the New Yorker by Whitney Darrow, Jr., was offered by Taraba Illustration Art in 2016. The listing read "Overindulged child bored on a rainy day. This is 13 x 11.25” and appeared in The New Yorker on August 26th, 1974... Darrow was so good at finding humor in the human condition. This one’s priced at only $1000 + $50 as share of domestic shipping… " Me, I love the way the mother offers her daughter so many creative options while the child just wants to go out and run around.

"Why don't you sing, weave, paint, sculpt, compose[,] or something?"
Whitney Darrow, Jr.
Original art
The New Yorker, August 26, 1974, page 23

Spot drawing by Kenneth Mahood and cartoon by Whitney Darrow, Jr.

https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1974-08-26/flipbook/022/

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Spot Drawing
Kenneth Mahood

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