New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

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Episode 270 - Riley Fanning

Riley Fanning joins us on the podcast this week. Riley is a fairly recent contributor to the New Yorker. She had her first cartoon in the Daily last year and her first on

Oct 15
1 h 38 min

269 - The P.C. Vey Tribute

This week's podcast is a special tribute to New Yorker Cartoonist, P.C. Vey. Peter passed away on September 17th. He was a terrific cartoonist with a wonderfully ben

Oct 7
1 h 36 min

Episode 268 - Olivia Pecini

Olivia Pecini joins us on the podcast this week. Olivia had her first cartoon appear in the print issue of the New Yorker a few weeks ago (she's also had a Daily car

Oct 1
1 h 36 min

Episode 267 - John Konno

Frequent Caption Contest finalist, John Konno joins us on the podcast this week. John (or a member of his family) has been a finalist in the New Yorker contest five times

Sep 23
1 h 09 min

266 - Michael Maslin Returns Again

Michael Maslin returns to the podcast to talk some more about cartoons, process, motivation and the contests. We get into a great discussion on a new trend in humor that

Sep 16
1 h 36 min

Episode 265 - Bob Mankoff Takes The Fifth

Bob Mankoff returns to the podcast for a fifth time. We talk with him about the changes to the CartoonStock contest, The recent decision by Air Mail to no longer publish

Sep 9
1 h 45 min

Episode 264 - Lawrence Wood

Larry Wood joins us this week to talk about the contests and cartoons from the current issue of the New Yorker. We have some great discussions and disagreements on the fi

Sep 1
1 h 09 min

Episode 263 - Guy Richards Smit

Guy Richards Smit joins us on the podcast this week. Guy has followed his muse down many paths: art, music, video production and most recently, gag cartooning. His art h

Aug 19
1 h 33 min

262 - John Klossner Returns

John Klossner returns to the podcast to talk some more about cartoons, Children's book illustrations, his stint doing the Caption Contest Commentary for Beth's

Aug 12
1 h 13 min

Episode 261 - Olivia Noble

Olivia Noble joins us on the podcast this week. Olivia Started submitting her cartoons to the New Yorker through Submittable in 2024 and had her first Cartoon published i

Aug 5
1 h 04 min

Episode 260 - Lawrence Wood

Larry Wood joins us this week to talk about the contests and cartoons from the current issue of the New Yorker. We were all pretty much in agreement with the New Yorker c

Jul 29
53 min

Episode 259 - Rusty Epstein

Rusty Epstein joins us on the podcast this week. Rusty's cartoons have appeared in The Weekly Humorist, The Times and other magazines and will soon be published in t

Jul 23
1 h 17 min

Episode 258 - Avi Steinberg Returns

Avi Steinberg returns to the podcast to talk some more about cartoons, the rewards of being a kindergarten teacher and his soon to be published book, "The Jumble". We als

Jul 15
1 h 36 min

Episode 257 - Lawrence Wood

Larry Wood joins us this week to talk about the contests and cartoons from the current issue of the New Yorker. We go over the New Yorker contests with some disagreement,

Jul 1
57 min

Episode 256 - The Co-Hosts Meat Cute

A short podcast this week with just the podcast co-hosts Vin, Beth, Nicole and Paul talking about the contests and their favorite cartoons from the current week's is

Jun 25
29 min

Episode 255 - Peter Kuper

Cartoonist, Peter Kuper joins us on the podcast this week. Peter is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker, is the current cartoonist for Spy Vs Spy in MAD magazine and

Jun 18
1 h 36 min

Episode 254 - Keith Knight

Keith Knight joins us on the podcast this week. Keith is a syndicated cartoonist and has been published in MAD, the New Yorker and many other magazines. He was also a co-

Jun 10
1 h 38 min

Episode 253 - Lawrence Wood

Larry Wood joins us this week to talk about the contests and cartoons from the current issue of the New Yorker. We go over the New Yorker contests without much disagreeme

Jun 3
1 h 03 min

Episode 252 - Jim Benton

Jim Benton joins us on the podcast this week. Jim is a renown illustrator and children's book writer. He created "IT'S HAPPY BUNNY" which has generated three-qu

May 27
1 h 24 min

Episode 251 - Ellie Black

Ellie Black joins us on the podcast this week. Ellie started submitting to the New Yorker in 2017 and had their first cartoon published in 2019. Their latest cartoon was

May 21
1 h 31 min

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or is it the humor of art? Either way, this is a great podcast! I’ve been entering the New Yorker caption contest for years and have never seen my caption after I’ve entered it. Now here are three winners of the contest talking about their strategies and how they come up with their captions. You bet I’m going to listen to this. As a bonus, they talk to the New Yorker cartoonists that come up with the cartoons for the contest. Now that I think of it, you shouldn’t listen to this podcast, because I don’t need the competition!

Flotsambay · May 2021

These guys are my new caption therapists! Love their witty discussion and opinions. I share my weekly New Yorker Cartoon Caption submissions on Insta @NEWYORKERCARTOONCONTEST by Winifred. The scientist working on a problem addressing someone entering the room. ‘I just figured out how to kill time.’

Michaell scottt · Aug 2023

It’d be the best podcast ever if they’d remember that we can’t see the pictures; so they need to spend 5 seconds describing each drawing or it’s babble without context :( .

Wwtttt1 · Nov 2022

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