My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #646

Take some air and enjoy my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #646 for January 14, 2108. The drawing is by Joe Dator.

"Sandra, forget all this and run
away with me to Aspen."

These captions didn't land well:

"Did I ever tell you about the agony of defeat?"
"So far, so good."
"I'm really not into all this fun in the sun."
"Have you considered winter sports?"

January 21, 2019 Update:  The Finalists

January 28, 2019 Update:  I voted for the second caption.

February 4, 2019 Update:  The Winner

Note: Last week cartoonist Kim Warp gave us a close encounter with the Yeti. My caption was, quite frankly, abominable. Journey up the mountain to Contest #645.


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Pictorial Review: Barbara Shermund and Julian de Miskey

Dick Buchanan has dipped into his Cartoon Clip Files and sent along three full color scans from Pictorial Review. There are two covers, one from 1948 by Barbara Shermund and the other from 1949 by Julian de Miskey. From the 1949 issue he has also included a page of Shermund’s Sallies, a regular feature consisting of two color cartoons.

Regarding Pictorial Review, Dick writes, "This was a Sunday supplement which (I believe) originated with the Chicago Herald American and was distributed by King Features Syndicate to other papers. The only other paper I see from eBay research is the Sun-Telegraph..."

A new listing on eBay indicates that we can also include the San Francisco Examiner. There are probably a number of other newspapers as well. These cartoons were distributed to hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of homes around the country.

"I'm going to try to dig up a man!"
Barbara Shermund
Pictorial Review, July 18, 1948

Scan by Dick Buchanan

"Dear, I simply must get away for a couple of weeks' rest."
Julian de Miskey
Pictorial Review, January 16, 1949

Scan by Dick Buchanan

"She's so dumb she thinks minks are little animals!"
* * *
"Joe's kept his word all these years—
he's never looked at another woman!"
Barbara Shermund
Shermund's Sallies
Pictorial Review, January 16, 1949, page 8

Scan by Dick Buchanan

Note:  My thanks to Dick Buchanan who now makes his thirty-ninth contribution to this blog with his scans of rarely-seen work by Barbara Shermund and Julian de Miskey from Pictorial Review. Dick maintains the priceless Dick Buchanan Cartoon Clip Files and only he knows what forgotten gems will be next to emerge. He contributes regularly to Mike Lynch Cartoons, most recently a post for the holidays entitled "From the Dick Buchanan Files: Winter and Holiday Gag Cartoons 1939 - 1955." There's the link in aqua. You know what to do with it.


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Barbara Shermund

Julian de Miskey

Dick Buchanan

At the Beach

Christmas

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