--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" > <j_alexander_stanley@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Every other week I enter the New Yorker's online Caption > > > Contest...that's where they provide you with the cartoon and you > > > provide the caption. They then narrow it down to three finalists > > > and then people vote for the winner. > > > > > > Well, I never make the finalists. But when I see who made it, I > > > always think my caption is much funnier. > > > > > > Is it me? Do I think I'm so brilliant and witty only because > it's > > > wonderful, adorable me? Or are my captions really good? > > > > > > Do me a favor: go to the following website and check out the > three > > > finalists then week, then come back here and check out my entry, > > > which I am putting several spaces below the following link and > tell > > > me if you think mine is funnier or not: > > > > > > http://www.cartoonbank.com/CapContest/CaptionContest.aspx?tab=vote > > > > > > My caption: "Racing stripes are passe. This year, chocolate > mousse > > > is in." > > > > I found all the captions, yours and the finalists, equally unfunny. > > It strikes me that the whole idea of doing a > cartoon drawing without a caption and then > having others come up with captions for it > is so backward it may make a genuinely funny > result unlikely. > > Cartoonists don't *start* with just the cartoon > drawing in mind and then dream up a caption for > it, do they? Don't they usually have some idea > of what the caption is going to be? >
Most cartoonists use the cartoon as a visual aid for the wirtten gag. There ARE cartoons and styles where there IS no caption or only a minimalist one. The Far Side was a prime example of minimalist captions. > I wonder if the drawings the New Yorker uses > for these contests are recycled from cartoons > that originally did have captions by the > cartoonists and were just never used in the > magazine. > Pretty sure that's the case. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
