In The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #973 from the combined issue of December 29, 2025 & January 5, 2026, a snowman is in the studio of a podcaster during a broadcast session. The snowman speaks. The drawing is by Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby.
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| "Before I go, there's just one song I'd like you to play." |
January 17, 2026 Update: The Finalists
January 24, 2026 Update: I voted for the caption from Lafayette.
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Two snowmen are getting pugilistic in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #885 from the issue of February 12 & 19, 2024, and one of them has lost his head. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby.
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| "It's only a technical knock-off." |
March 2, 2024 Update: The Finalists
March 9, 2024 Update: I voted for the caption from Norristown.
March 15, 2024 Update: The Winner
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Bob Eckstein published A History of the Snowman in 2007. The updated edition, now dubbed An Illustrated History of the Snowman (2018), was listed last year on eBay accompanied by a print signed in the year of publication. As the seller notes, "It's not the crispest signature." You can't fault simple honesty.
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| Bob Eckstein eBay listing ended November 8, 2021 |
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A holiday card published by Pomegranate repurposes Charles Addams's dust jacket art from his cartoon collection Favorite Haunts (1976). See how many characters from the Addams Family you can find. At twelve cards for $12.95, it's hard to do better than this.
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| https://www.pomegranate.com/collections/holiday-cards/products/charles-addams-the-addams-family-snowmen-holiday-cards |
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| https://thecarycollection.com/products/favorite-haunts |
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| "I warned you they'd all want one." |
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| "We can't receive any hotmail." "I'm counting on you to deliver my robot army by spring." |
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| "Don't give him anything on layaway." |
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| "Let's find enough kids to make a minyan." "I think I'm getting the cold shoulder." "I made him frum, but he could still drift." |
