CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION COVERAGE CONTINUES!

The Caption Contest and Anti-Caption Contest are in suspension this week, so it's once again time to take stock of things.


For starters, the Caption Contest Map is now #62 among map builder's most visited maps, ahead of Video game Legislation but behind dangerous roads of the world.


Moving along to the Caption Contest, I noted during the last pause (only six winners ago) that women winners seemed to be gaining ground on the menfolk. The gender (im)balance among the winners of the first 100 contests had been

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

and the subsequent 23 winners broke down to

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

but now, after six more winners, the men have rebounded a bit, with the breakdown of the past 29 winners being as follows:

62.1% or 18 Male
27.6% or 8 Female
10.3% or 3 "Indeterminate" (by me so far)

Moving up to the present, we await the results of Caption Contest 130 (P.C. Vey's snowman with waving arms), in which New York or California could seize the lead or be held in stasis by still-winless Colorado.

But the voting is still open in Caption Contest 131, with New York's Jessie Birks and California's Blythe Million campaigning in BAT's comments but California's Richard Jones not (yet?) deeming this blog worthy of even a token meet-and-greet.


And Caption Contest 133 is here, while Anti-Caption Contest 133 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
20 New York (17 from the Big Apple)

11 New Jersey

6 Massachusetts
6 Pennsylvania
6 Virginia (three from NOVA, two from Richmond, one from Charlottesville)

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

4 Maryland (none named Mary)
4 Texas (two from Houston)

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

2 District of Columbia
2 Florida
2 Michigan
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 Iowa
1 Kentucky
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