This is an off week for the New Yorker (double issue last week), but we do have Larry Wood joining us for our monthly discussion about the CartoonStock contest. We dive into our likes and dislikes about the captions selected as winners for that contest and talk about captions we liked that didn't make it into the finalists.
In the first half of the podcast, we talk about the New Yorker contest in general and discuss the pros and cons of entering an obvious caption.

You can order Larry's book, "Your Caption Has Been Selected: More Than Anyone Could Possibly Want to Know About The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest" here:
https://www.amazon.com/Your-Caption-Has-Been-Selected/dp/1250333407/

You can watch the judging video of the recent CartoonStock contest here:
https://youtu.be/ss69roKniyc?si=mhT2iWbYWYgi4cme

And read Larry's commentary on the CartoonStock contest here:
https://www.cartoonstock.com/blog/bigfoot-and-reporters-caption-contest-commentary-with-lawrence-wood/

You can purchase original New Yorker cartoon art from Curated Cartoons here: https://www.curatedcartoons.com

Send us questions or comments to:
Cartooncaptioncontestpodcast@gmail.com

Rich North joins us on the podcast this week.
Rich is a fairly new cartoonist with his cartoons first appearing in the New Yorker just over a year ago.
We talk with Rich about how he got into cartooning, his process, how bowling changed his life and, as always, we get distracted by shiny objects along the way.
You can check out Rich's cartoons at his website:
https://www.rich-north.com
And on his Instagram page:
https://www.instagram.com/richnooorth/

On Part 1 of the episode, we discuss the current contests:

Winning captions for New Yorker contest #975 (Selfie sticking the moon landing.)

Finalists for contest #977 (Dogfish-eared book.)

Current New Yorker contest #979 (Led foot Zeppelin.)

We also talk about our favorite cartoons from the current issue of the New Yorker.

You can buy original New Yorker cartoon art at Curated Cartoons:https://www.curatedcartoons.com

Send us questions or comments to: Cartooncaptioncontestpodcast@gmail.com

We're happy to have cartoonist, Dan Misdea return to the podcast this week!
We talk with Dan about the children's book he had published after the last time he was on the podcast and his more recent collaboration with Rob Meyerson, "AB@C And Other Gramograms", an homage to the great William Steig's classic book "CDB!" (See the Bee!).
We also discuss the winning captions for his recent cartoon in the New Yorker contest and he joins us for the rest of the contest discussions and our favorite cartoons from the current issue of the New Yorker.

You can check out Dan's webpage here:
https://danmisdea.com

His books and other fun stuff here:
https://danmisdea.com/books-stuff

And his cartoons (TBD) at Comics Kingdom:
https://comicskingdom.com/tbd-toons-by-dan

We discuss the winning entry for Contest #974 (Rats in the barbelfry).
Finalists for Contest #976 (Wait for it...).
Current Contest #978 ('Lo, Tide).

You can buy original New Yorker cartoon art at Curated Cartoons:https://www.curatedcartoons.com

Send us questions or comments to:
Cartooncaptioncontestpodcast@gmail.com