New Yorker Cartoons

  • A Very Semi-Serious Request

    Sometimes the most we can manage is to flip through the latest New Yorker for the cartoons. A recent Kickstarter project (with only 9 days left!) is a documentary about the clever minds behind those drawings you giggle at each week.

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    Winning Captions

    If you keep getting rejected by the New Yorker’s cartoon caption contest week after week, your frustration has company. The article offers some strategies for writing a winning submission. Findings of a quantitative analysis suggest captions should use words uncommon…

  • Literal New Yorker Captions

    The Monkeys You Ordered improve New Yorker cartoons by giving them literal captions (via Kottke):