My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #829

I needed some direction for The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #829 from the issue of November 28, 2022. My classy caption is shown below. The drawing is by Lonnie Millsap.

"Everywhere you look, there's porn."

These captions were just too rigid:

"As if we can't read..."
"Oh, good. We can go back to slithering."
"They're becoming more inclusive."
"You can thank universal access."

December 10, 2022 Update:  The Finalists

December 12, 2022 Update:  For my vote, I went with the caption from Austin.

 

January 1, 2023 Update:  The Winner

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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #824

Let's bungle in the jungle with The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #824 from the issue of October 24, 2022. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by David Borchart.

"Wild cat got your tongue?"

October 31, 2022 Update:  The Finalists

November 7, 2022 Update:  I voted for the caption from Baltimore.

November 14, 2022 Update:  The Winner

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William Steig: Reptiles I'm Always Meeting

Four original pen-and-ink book illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist William Steig were sold at auction yesterday in Clintondale, New York. They were originally published in Will Cuppy's book How to Become Extinct (1941), appearing in the chapter "Reptiles I'm Always Meeting." The drawings depict four snakes: The Garter Snake, The Rattlesnake, Own Your Own Snake, and The Glass Snake. The drawings have a lot of charm, especially given their reptilian subject matter. The Garter Snake image may easily be described as romantic. Pencil lines are visible throughout the set. Correction fluid was used judiciously in the bow of Own Your Own Snake.

Bidding opened at $300 online and the lot of four drawings sold at Kensington Estate Auctions for $625, well within the broad $400 to $800 estimate. These illustrations were just offered in the June 9 Illustration Art sale at Swann Galleries, where they failed to sell with a presale estimate of $1,200 to $1,800. That estimate wasn't necessarily too high; the final Kensington sale price suggests that with a reserve set reasonably at half the low estimate, the Swann sale might have been successful.

William Steig
Kensington Estate Auctions listing accessed August 7, 2022

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/william-steig-1907-2003-original-book-illustratio-50-c-00f4a3e815

Sold:

Unsold:

William Steig
Swann Galleries Illustration Art, June 9, 2022, lot 132

https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/WILLIAM-STEIG-(1907-2003)-Reptiles-Im-Always-Meeting?saleno=2608&lotNo=132&refNo=796222

August 10, 2022 Update:  Thanks to David from Manhattan for pointing out that the first edition of How to Become Extinct dates from 1941, not 1983.

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