CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE! New York City might not have a lot to celebrate when it comes to football and pro basketball, but it's another Big Apple Week in The New Yorker's Cartoon Caption Contest, where New York City's Doak Sergent just won Contest #34 (vampire standing by bedroom window) with

"I bet the bride of Frankenstein gets to cuddle."

So the Empire State is now tied with New Jersey and Massachusetts for third place in the state competition...with all of its winners coming from the city. Now that's the kind of bias we expect from The New Yorker!

There's a lot more happening in Captionland. In The New Yorker, the nominees for Contest #36 ("pregnant" guy talking to another guy) include a submission from Jude Person of a Missouri town called...Conception!

"The ultrasound says it's a keg of Bud Light."

My submission:

"Whatever you think, you can't say that I'm a deadbeat dad."

I kind of like that one. Don't you?

In Anti-Caption Contest #37 (empty suit at some sort of hearing), the winner is michael with

"I will now yield the floor to the Senator from Massachusetts, who can perhaps explain to the rest of this committee why, when struck down, Mr. Kenobi has disappeared, while on previous occasions other Jedi Knights have remained corporeal in death."

My submission was

"No, no, no! We need robes! Robes, I tell you! Is that so hard to understand? How can we be taken seriously without robes? We might as well be characters in a cartoon. A cartoon with a lousy caption, mind you."

Brand-new Contest #38 involves a living room scene. Captions and Anti-Captions are invited.

In other news, Emily Gordon's emdashes offers a guide to more alternative New Yorker caption contests. And Dan Radosh reminds readers that captions/anti-captions will be on the table at tomorrow night's Rejection Show at Mo Pitkin's.

And today is the last day to see any semblance of Cartoons Against the Axis, which includes (included?) work by some New Yorker artistes.

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone