CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION COVERAGE CONTINUES!

There's a caption contest break/extension at The New Yorker, but coverage continues here. It's a December buffet!


For starters, some backpatting. Since I launched the Cartoon Caption Contest map about 18 months ago, it has accumulated more than 21,500 hits—some not even from me! It's now ranked as Map Builder's 77th most popular map, situated just ahead of Costa Rica and just behind GPC.


And now for an update about what seems to be a significant change in the contest results. As you may recall, the gender (im)balance among the winners of the first 100 contests was

75% Male
19% Female
6% "Indeterminate" (by me so far)

But the subsequent 23 winners break down as follows:

56.5% or 13 Male
34.8% or 8 Female (34.8%)
8.7% or 2 "Indeterminate" (by me so far)

Over at Anti-Caption Contest 126 (Dave Sipress's Man's Head in a Pseudo-Mondrian), the winner is

"It gets worse. My ass is in a de Kooning."
Mike Mariano

Among the Honorable Mentions is BAT friend Optimus Sub-Prime (wahoo-wah!), with

"This week’s winner: the entries thread itself. Its arc matches almost perfectly that of the cartoon’s subject, so-called modern art. Without the initial burst of creativity. Just several pre-exhausted cycles of self-referential would-be cleverness. Sadly petering out after just four days (decades). Yet we’ll all stand around applauding “the winner,” so as not to appear square."

My loser:

David Sipress (American, b. 1947?). Mandrian, 2007

Very interesting: Dan Radosh reveals the original captions for some Caption Contest Cartoons.


And Andrew McMeels Publishing plans to issue a caption contest-related book in Fall 2008.


Caption Contest 127 is here. Anti-Caption Contest 127 is here.


THE STANDINGS

Here is the current New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest breakdown by state. You can find it all mapped out here.

20 California

19 New York (17 from the Big Apple)

10 New Jersey

6 Massachusetts
6 Pennsylvania

5 Connecticut (two from New Haven, three not)
5 Illinois (four from Chicago—two captions by Lawrence Wood, two drawings by Leo Cullum)
5 Virginia (two from Richmond)

4 Maryland (none named Mary)

3 Georgia (includes two-time winner Carl Gables)
3 Minnesota (Minneapolis 2, St. Paul 1)
3 North Carolina
3 Ohio
3 Texas

2 District of Columbia
2 Mississippi
2 Missouri
2 New Hampshire
2 Oregon (both named Eric, both from Portland)
2 Rhode Island
2 Utah
2 Vermont

1 Alabama
1 Alaska
1 Arizona
1 Delaware
1 Florida
1 Iowa
1 Kentucky
1 Michigan
1 Nevada
1 New Mexico
1 Oklahoma
1 Washington

Map Introduction

Thanks to Andriy Bidochko for Map Builder.

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone