Monday, April 14, 2008

CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION COVERAGE CONTINUES!

The winner of Caption Contest 138 (P. C. Vey's marriage counselor with water tank) is
"Get naked, jump in, and make this marriage work!"
Trent Swanson (Anchorage, AK)
That's the second win for Alaska, where, I imagine, Swanson is never far from frozen food.


In Caption Contest 140 (Gahan Wilson's covered wagon heading toward spotlights through a passd), the nominees are
"Forget Oregon. I'm going to Vegas."
Shyam Jha (Tucson, AZ)

"There's red carpets in them thar hills!"
William Binder (New York, NY)

"Indian casino. I'd say Comanche."
Jeremy Voas (Phoenix, AZ)
Interesting that this Western-themed cartoon has two nominees from Arizona. My loser:
"What did we do before E-ZPass?"

In Anti-Caption Contest 141 (Drew Dernavich's angel with big bat wings), the winner is
"Yeah, and 20 gigs more than the white!"
Heather
My losers:
"There are some things even a utility belt can't reverse, Robin."

"What do you mean, there's no Halloween in heaven?"

Caption Contest 142 is here, while Anti-Caption Contest 142 is here.


And congrats to Dan "Anti-Caption" Radosh on making Time's Top 25 Blogs.


THE STANDINGS

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

20 New York (17 from the Big Apple)

12 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)
5 Texas (three from Houston)

4 Georgia (includes two-time winner Carl Gables)
4 Maryland (none named Mary)

3 Minnesota (Minneapolis 2, St. Paul 1)
3 North Carolina
3 Ohio

2 Alaska
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 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. MyMaps at MapBuilder.net

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

DMF,

You know I've had fun with your anti-nyer cartoon contest that you post from Dan Radosh's blog but I never realized that I work with Dan's wife until recently. Well, I knew that Gina was married to Dan but I had never made the connection because I had never gone to his site. With his new book, Gina and I were talking and she mentioned that time had selected his blog as one of the top 25 bloggers. I finally went to it and...click...click...click...slow gary finally made the connections. I can't wait to tell them how through you I've been at least a limited fan of Dan's blog via yours! Thanks for doing such a great blog.

Gary