It has become a ritual for me to enter the New Yorker’s weekly Cartoon Caption Contest. I won only once, long ago in April 2011, and the magazine’s cartoon editor, Robert Mankoff, wrote a blog about that. In his blog he included three of my losing submissions he enjoyed…and one that was too tumescent, perhaps, to get past the magazine’s board of editors. I believe that one (above) was the funniest I’ve ever submitted. But look over these losers and I’ll link Mankoff’s blog down at the bottom![]()
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Go here for Robert Mankoff’s blog.
And click here to enter this week’s contest.
Many of my losing entries in the New Yorker’s daunting Cartoon Caption Contest

Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
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