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Join NOW!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.
...moreIf 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 in other entries and should not reference “concrete elements” in the cartoon. Keep them short […]
...moreThe Monkeys You Ordered improve New Yorker cartoons by giving them literal captions (via Kottke):
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