New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Larry Wood, the all time New Yorker cartoon caption contest winner, author and CartoonStock caption contest judge, joins us again to talk about the current New Yorker contests, our favorite cartoons from this week’s issue of the New Yorker and the latest CartoonStock contest. 
We have some great discussions on what we think makes good (or bad) captions and why we dislike certain kinds of captions. It turns out it difficult to d...

On part 2 of this week's podcast we are joined by Illustrator, John Cuneo. John's art has appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, Esquire, Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic Monthly.

We talk with John about his background, his distinctive drawing style, New Yorker covers and much more!
You can learn more about John and see his New Yorker covers and other illustrations at his website:
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Paul Noth returns to the podcast this week.
We talk with Paul about winning this year's Thurber Prize for American Humor, his new Substack, "Noth Things" and his upcoming book project that collects almost 200 of his best cartoons (including dozens of new ones)!  

You can find Paul's website here:
https://www.paulnoth.com

And subscribe to Noth Things at:
https://substack.com/@paulnot...

Cartoonist, Rose Anne Prevec joins us on the second half of the podcast this week. Rose Anne has been creating cartoons since she was young, but has only recently been having them published, most notably in Airmail, Alta Journal, Narrative, Reader’s Digest, The Wall Street Journal and the Weekly Humorist. The New Yorker has been elusive, but we think she'll get in there in the near future.
You can find her cartoons at her ...

Emmy Award winning writer and cartoonist, Ken Levine returns to the podcast this week. Ken has been a writer for MASH, Cheers, Frasier, Wings. The Simpsons and many more TV shows.

Ken has the most recent cartoon in the CartoonStock Caption Contest and we talk with him about his cartoon and his reaction to the winning captions. He also joins us for the New Yorker contests and favorite cartoons from the current issue. 
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Cartoonist Harry Bliss joins us on the second half of the podcast this week. 
Harry has been contributing to the New Yorker since 1998, first as a cover artist and also as a cartoonist. He has recently collaborated with Steve Martin in a series of cartoons that have been collected in the book, "A Wealth of Pigeons". Harry also illustrated Steve's book, "Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other ...

Screenwriter and cartoonist, Alex Gregory joins us on the podcast this week. Alex was a guest on the podcast three years ago and we mostly talked about his career in cartooning on that episode (#66). On this episode, we go over some of our favorite cartoons of his and talk more about his screenwriting. The most recent show he's been a writer on is "The Studio", which was recently nominated for 23 Emmy's (the mos...

Larry Wood, the all time New Yorker cartoon caption contest winner, author and CartoonStock caption contest judge, joins us again to talk about the current New Yorker contests, our favorite cartoons from this week’s issue of the New Yorker and the latest CartoonStock contest. 
We have the usual spirited debates with Larry about the contest finalists and we take a few digressions into politics and the much more controversial deb...

Humorist and cartoonist, José Arroyo joins us on the podcast this week. José joins us again nearly two years after we last had him on and it's been a very busy two years for him! He's been working with Conan O'Brien on a number of projects including Conan's travel show, "Conan O'Brien Must Go" (currently available on Max), the Oscars and Conan's appearance on the Hot Ones podcast. 
We hav...

Michael Litwak joins us on the second half of the podcast this week. 
Michael is a recent contributor to the New Yorker and has had his cartoons published in a number of other publication. He is also a successful filmmaker with his most recent effort, "Molli And Max In The Future" receiving a NYT Critic's Pick and a Certified Fresh (98% rating) on Rotten Tomatoes.

Check out Michael's webpage here for his...

Larry Wood, the all time New Yorker cartoon caption contest winner, author and CartoonStock caption contest judge, joins us to talk about the current New Yorker contests, our favorite cartoons from this week’s issue of the New Yorker and the latest CartoonStock contest. 
As always, we have a great discussion about the contests and we take some time to talk about if some subjects should be off limits for captions in the contests...

Lindsey Budde joins us on the second half of the podcast this week. 
Lindsey is a new cartoon contributor to the New Yorker, with her first cartoon appearing in the September 23, 2024 issue. We talk with Lindsey about her background and her journey to becoming a New Yorker Cartoonist.
You can see more of her cartoons om her instagram page: 
https://www.instagram.com/lindseybudde/

On Part 1 of the episode, we di...

Bruce Eric Kaplan joins us on the podcast this week. We talk with Bruce about his career in TV, writing books and cartoons and how he's managed to blend all of those career paths together. He doesn't mind getting a little cartoons mixed in with his TV and his TV getting mixed in with his books. 
We also talk about our favorite BEK cartoons and how a word, not usually found in a New Yorker cartoons" was found in a...

Victor Varnado joins us on the second half of the podcast this week. 
Victor is an actor, comedian, humorist and, of course, a New Yorker cartoonist. We talk with Victor about his background, being funny and we take a deep dive into A.I. and its use in creativity.
You can learn more about Victor at his website:
https://supremerobot.com

His Anti-Racism Activity Book can be bought here:
https://antiracism.onl...

Larry Wood, the all time New Yorker cartoon caption contest winner, author and CartoonStock caption contest judge, joins us to talk about the current New Yorker contests, our favorite cartoons from this week’s issue of the New Yorker and the latest CartoonStock contest. 
Vin Joins us from his local firehouse (Vin is a volunteer fireman) and various people randomly come and go during the podcast. We have a lively discussion abou...

New Yorker cartoonist, Robert Leighton joins us on the second half of the podcast this week.
Robert started drawing cartoons at an early age and started a comic strip, called Carl & Goober, when he was eight. The strip was very much influenced by Walt Kelly's, Pogo and Robert even used one of its characters in a strip he did for the Northwestern University Humor magazine. His first cartoon in the New Yorker was publish...

New Yorker cartoonist, Jason Chatfield, joins us to celebrate the 200th episode of the podcast. We catch up on what he's been up to over the last two years and talk about his new book with Scott Dooley, "You're Not a Real Dog Owner Until…". It will be available on April 29th wherever fine books are sold and at the book's website:
Realdogowner.com

You can find more about Jason, subscribe to his ...

Larry Wood, the all time New Yorker cartoon caption contest winner, author and CartoonStock caption contest judge, joins us once again to talk about the current New Yorker contests, our favorite cartoons from this week’s issue of the New Yorker and the latest CartoonStock contest. Some great discussions and debates about the finalist picks and we learn that Larry and Paul have a connection to the current New Yorker contest cartoon....

Sarah Booth joins us on the second half of the podcast this week.
Sarah is the daughter of the legendary New York cartoonist, George Booth. We start out talking about her and her career as a staff artist at the New York Times. Sarah also has many great memories of growing up in the Booth household. We learn who some of George's characters are based on and how he used real life events to help him create some of his memorabl...