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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“A Pig Walks into a Bar” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood

Lars Kenseth’s cartoon is set in a bar, where two businessmen are having a drink. To their right, drinking by himself, is a pig in a suit. One of the businessmen is saying something to the other, who’s looking sideways at the pig. Because pigs are dirty, I came up with these two captions: “I’m…
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“Daddy Daycare” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood

Robert Leighton’s cartoon is set in a daycare center, where an adult man in a jacket and tie is sitting on the floor, happily playing with blocks. A woman who’s dressed casually is watching him. Standing next to and addressing her is a woman in business attire. Assuming the professionally-dressed women is the man’s wife,…
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“Virus Lineup” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood

Benjamin Schwartz’s cartoon is set in a police station, where a virologist is looking at a lineup of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa. The germ on the far right appears to be the coronavirus. The virologist is saying something to the police officer standing behind him. My first caption is a pun that alludes to both…
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