Cartoon Collections Blog

Now more than ever, your team needs a good laugh! For months your colleagues have been working remotely and gradually feeling more disconnected from one another. What can you do to bring people together, help foster team building, and get people laughing during these challenging times? Inject some enthusiasm and good humor into your virtual gathering with a Cartoonathon event featuring New Yorker cartoonists. Cartoonathons are the perfect online event to liven up your team’s remote-work ...
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“Pilloried Octopus” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood

Brooke Bourgeois’s cartoon is set under the sea, where a disgruntled octopus has been put in a pillory with nine holes, one for each of his eight tentacles and one for his head. Swimming around the octopus are several fish, one of whom, in the lower-left corner of the drawing, is speaking. Here’s a pun…
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“Lyft Stork” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood

In Evan Lian’s cartoon, two storks are making their deliveries. One is carrying a baby. The other has a pink mustache—a reference to the ride-sharing service Lyft—and carries a young man with a backpack on his lap. The stork with the mustache is speaking. This cartoon has three frames of reference: baby-delivering storks, the young…
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Anatomy of a Cartoon: Fairy Tales

Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind the gags to debate what makes a cartoon tick. This week our intrepid critics take a look at fairy tale cartoons. We first hear fairy tales at an impressionable age, usually before we can read. The characters and their magical stories are part of our collective…
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