New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Feb 26 2025 193 ep. 78 mins 101
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In depth discussion of the weekly New Yorker Caption Contest as well as interviews with Cartoonists and former Contest winners. 

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Intro/Outro music created and performed by Chris Nesja. 
Podcast logo designed by Dan Nesja with artwork by Shannon Wheeler. 

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Episode 192 - Kathy Wrobel

Feb 26 2025 84 mins  
Joining us on the podcast this week is Kathy Wrobel. Kathy is a two time finalist of the New Yorker contest and a very frequent finalist of the CartoonStock contest (going all the way back to contest #14!) Kathy talks with us about her background and her process of coming up with winning (funny and clever!) captions. She also joins us in the contest discussion and our favorite cart

Episode 191 - Lawrence Wood

Feb 12 2025 60 mins  
Larry Wood, the all time New Yorker cartoon caption contest winner, author and CartoonStock caption contest judge, joins us once again to talk about the current New Yorker contests, our favorite cartoons from this week’s issue of the New Yorker and the latest CartoonStock contest. Vin is challenged to come up with the top 25 captions for the next CartoonStock contest. You'll have

Episode 190 - A Quick and Dirty Thirty

Feb 05 2025 28 mins  
A short podcast this week with just the hosts talking about the contests and their favorite cartoons from the current week's issue of the New Yorker. There is a question that was left unanswered about why zebras have stripes. We did a quick google search and found, "While scientists still debate the exact origins and functions of zebra stripes, their recent efforts have focused mor

Episode 189 - Stephen Nadler And The New Yorker Cartoon Exhibition

Jan 29 2025 97 mins  
Joining us on the podcast this week is New Yorker cartoon enthusiast, Stephen Nadler. Stephen talks about his love of all things New Yorker and the New Yorker cartoon and cover art exhibition, hosted by the Society of Illustrators, "Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration". You can find more information about the exhibition here: https://societyillustrators.org/.../draw

Episode 188 - John Donohue

Jan 22 2025 114 mins  
On part 2 of this week's episode, we talk with Artist/writer, John Donohue. John was a writer and editor at the New Yorker and tried his hand at cartooning for a while and had five of his cartoons published in it. He decided to take a new direction in his career and started doing on-the-spot ink drawings of restaurants. He's drawn restaurants from all over the world, including Lond

Episode 187 - Mark Parisi, Dave Blazek & Wayno

Jan 15 2025 102 mins  
Joining us on the podcast this week are three of the top syndicated single panel cartoonists, Mark Parisi (off the mark), Wayno (Bizarro) and Dave Blazek (Loose Parts). We have a great discussion with them about cartooning, the creative process, cartoon themes and what animals are funny. Mark and Dave each have a new book out. Mark's book, "The Truth About 5th Grade", was written w

Episode 186 - William Haefeli

Jan 08 2025 94 mins  
On part 2 of this week's episode, we talk with the great New Yorker cartoonist, William (Bill) Haefeli. Bill talks about how he got into cartooning, his process and his focus on social relationships in his cartoons. Bill explains his unique drawing style and its evolution. A great episode! Bill is featured in the recent book about New Yorker cartoonists, "At Wits End", by Alen Macw

Episode 185 - Lawrence Wood

Dec 31 2024 64 mins  
For the last podcast of the year, Larry Wood joins us to talk about the contests (including the recent CartoonStock contest). We have some interesting discussions about using vulgarities in captions and the ethics of being able to submit more captions in the CartoonStock contest (paying another $5 to enter an additional 3 captions). We discuss the winning entry for Contest #923 (Fu

Episode 184 - 2024 Year in Review With Mark Strout

Dec 11 2024 78 mins  
On this week's episode, Vin, Paul, Beth, Nicole and this year's best captioner, Mark Strout, review past and present contests from 2024 and choose our best and worst of the year. We also talk with Mark about how he started entering the caption contests and his process for coming up with winning captions. And of course, we discuss... The winning captions for New Yorker contest #922

Episode 183 - Adam Douglas Thompson (ADT)

Dec 04 2024 79 mins  
On part 2 of this week's episode, we talk with New Yorker cartoonist, Adam Douglas Thompson. We talk with Adam about his background in the arts, painting and how he became a New Yorker cartoonist. We also talk about his cartoons, a bit about teaching art at Brooklyn College and the use of AI in creativity. You can find Adam's cartoons and paintings at his webpage: http://www.adamdo