CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION COVERAGE CONTINUES!

The Cartoon Caption Contest is at a standstill, but you can still check out Blog About Town's map of winners, which is currently the 30th most visited Map Builder map, with over 72,200 hits—and some of them aren't even mine!


Meanwhile, the winner in Anti-Caption Contest 152 (Mick Stevens's car behind Earth on a road) is

"I, Earth Jr., shall now avenge the horrid death your gas-guzzling ways inflicted upon my father."
Mike

My losers:

"My first view--a panorama of brilliant deep blue ocean, shot with shades of green and gray and white--was of atolls and clouds. Close to the window I could see that this Pacific scene in motion was rimmed by the great curved limb of the Earth. It had a thin halo of blue held close, and beyond, black space. I held my breath, but something was missing--I felt strangely unfulfilled. Here was a tremendous visual spectacle, but viewed in silence. There was no grand musical accompaniment, no triumphant, inspired sonata or symphony. The planet was interfering with my Satellite radio."

"C'mon, muthafucka, let's play chicken!"

"No, that's not a Mitsubishi Eclipse."

For the record, that first one of mine is "from" Charles Walker.


Caption Contest 152 is here, while some Anti-Caption commentary can be found here.


THE STANDINGS

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

27 California

22 New York (19 from the Big Apple)

12 New Jersey

7 Virginia (three from NOVA, two from Richmond, one from Charlottesville, one from Roanoke)

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 Texas (three from Houston)

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

3 Arizona (two from Tucson)
3 Minnesota (Minneapolis 2, St. Paul 1)
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 Arkansas
1 Delaware
1 Iowa
1 Kentucky
1 Nevada
1 New Mexico
1 Oklahoma
1 Washington
1 Wisconsin

Map Introduction

Thanks to Andriy Bidochko for Map Builder.

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone

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

CARTOON CAPTION/ANTI-CAPTION CONTESTS CONTINUE!

Connecticut emerges from the three-win pack to take the fifth-place position with this winner of Caption Contest #91 (motorcycle cop writing ticket for caveman rolling big wheel):

"Yeah, yeah—and I invented the ticket."
Scott Gerschwer (Redding, CT)

In Caption Contest #93 (smiling businessman surrounded by shrouded figures at office meeting), the nominees are

"Marketing sent me. I'm the new, fresh face of death."
Marcus Mastracco (Rotterdam, NY)

"Perkins here, representing taxes."
Andrew Kosztyo (Daytona Beach, FL)

"Well, I thought it was funny."
Ian Lambert (Whitefish Bay, WI)

My loser:

"Why is everybody so grim?"

In Anti-Caption Contest #94 (two angels see another angel with grill and golf clubs), the winner is

"Dibs."
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My losers:

"Forget about that guy--here comes Vonnegut!"

"Only a week ago he was smiling and laughing at a board meeting."

"Just call him 'angel of the suburbs.'"

Caption Contest #95 is here. Anti-Caption Contest #95 is here.


THE STANDINGS

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

17 California

12 New York (11 from the Big Apple)

9 New Jersey

6 Massachusetts
6 Pennsylvania

4 Connecticut (two from New Haven, two not)

3 Georgia (includes two-time winner Carl Gables)
3 Maryland (none named Mary)
3 Minnesota (Minneapolis 2, St. Paul 1)
3 North Carolina
3 Ohio

2 District of Columbia
2 Illinois
2 New Hampshire
2 Texas
2 Utah
2 Virginia

1 Arizona
1 Iowa
1 Mississippi
1 Missouri
1 New Mexico
1 Oklahoma
1 Oregon
1 Rhode Island
1 Vermont
1 Washington

Map Introduction

Thanks to Andriy Bidochko for Map Builder.

Image by David Marc Fischer using Samsung cameraphone