Episode 239 - Lawrence Wood

Comedy writer and captioneer extraordinaire, Wayne Kline, joins us on the podcast this week to talk about his career as a TV comedy writer ("Good Times", "Married With Children", Jay Leno, David Letterman and many others) and his captioneering. A shoutout to Tom Chitty on his Kickstarter for his new book, "Nooks and Crannies of New York: From the Chronicles of Baron von Shoogenheimer"!You can find more information on the book and contribute to the Kickstarter here:https://www.baronsguide.comWe discuss the winning entry for Contest #981 (Cat with a hot waxed aloof.)Finalists for Contest #983 (Bagel immersion therapy.)Current Contest #985 (Barney Bear Fife)The Bambi Meets Godzilla cartoon that Paul mentions in the podcast:https://youtu.be/5R-rbzcEM8AOriginal New Yorker cartoon artwork can be found at:https://www.curatedcartoons.comThe home for all things to do with cartoon caption contests:https://humororama.lolSend questions or comments to:  [email protected]

Jake Goldwasser joins us on the podcast this week.Jake is a cartoonist, poet, translator and high school English teacher.He's had a number of cartoons (and Shouts & Murmurs) published in the New Yorker and other publications. We talk with him about his career, cartoon process, poetry and why we had to read The Great Gatsby in high school.You can find more about Jake at his website:https://jake-goldwasser.comAnd his cartoons on his instagram page:https://www.instagram.com/jakegoldwasser/On Part 1 of the episode, we discuss the current contests:Winning captions for New Yorker contest #980 (Mic reign drop.)Finalists for contest #982 (The penguins of March.)Current New Yorker contest #984 (Plein Hare painting.)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.comSend us questions or comments to:  [email protected]

A short podcast this week with just the original podcast recipe of Vin, Beth and Paul talking about the contests and their favorite cartoons from the current week's issue of the New Yorker (we'll get back into regular guests again next week).Vin lets the cat out of the bag with the podcast doing a roadtrip to Toronto. We'll be meeting up in Nicole's hometown at the end of May to celebrate doing the podcast for 5 years (yeah, I can't believe we've been doing this for five years). We're not sure if we'll get a podcast out of it (the last time we got together to do an in-person podcast, it didn't go so well). We'll see what happens.We discuss the winning entry for Contest #979 (Hindenbuick.)Finalists for Contest #981 (Cat mon dieu.)Current Contest #983 (Poppy issues.)The Nesja Press collaboration with Drew Dernavich "Bagel Story" letterpress print is available for purchase here:https://www.nesjapress.com/shop/p/bagel-story-letterpress-printOriginal New Yorker cartoon artwork can be found at:https://www.curatedcartoons.comSend questions or comments to:  [email protected]

Larry Wood joins us for our monthly discussion about the CartoonStock contest. He hints at some changes to the contest that will be announced in the next month. We have our usual discussion about the New Yorker contest (Paul admits he was wrong about there being Position Bias!) and we talk about our favorite cartoons from the current issue of the New Yorker.We discuss the winning entry for Contest #978 (There's a buoy here to see you.)Finalists for Contest #980 (Majesty Carpet Ride.)Current Contest #982 (Welcome to New Awk City.)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/Victor Chongchua has a new website dedicated to cartoon caption contests. It has a leader board for the New Yorker Contest, a curated list of caption contests you can enter and his own before and after contest for cartoonists. You can find it here:https://humororama.lolYou can purchase original New Yorker cartoon art from Curated Cartoons here: https://www.curatedcartoons.comSend us questions or comments to:  [email protected]

We start the podcast talking with our own Nicole Chrolavicius about her ventures into writing humorous articles this last year. She's had seven pieces published with an eighth one coming out soon. We then go into our usual discussion about the contests and our favorite cartoons from the current week's issue of the New Yorker.You can find Nicole's humor writings here:https://weeklyhumorist.com/other-gifts-that-only-stupid-people-would-turn-down-besides-a-jet-from-qatar/https://thebelladonnacomedy.com/bow-to-your-overlord-the-fitness-center-receptionist-and-keeper-of-the-gym-towels-b9b4c1077c91https://weeklyhumorist.com/bloodletting-leeches-and-carbolic-smoke-balls-who-says-the-cure-is-worse-than-the-disease/https://medium.com/frazzled/im-nine-years-old-and-i-like-my-video-games-violent-97ede7bba92fhttps://medium.com/slackjaw/that-reel-you-sent-me-the-one-that-i-never-watched-was-utterly-hilarious-8a961dfd10e4https://thebelladonnacomedy.com/im-the-peace-pillow-in-your-vacuous-decorative-pillow-array-fffd7f8c5062https://weeklyhumorist.com/you-gotta-fight-for-your-right-to-paaaaaaaaarty-if-you-are-director-of-the-fbi/And the McSweeney’s piece that Nicole referenced:https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/when-it-happensWe discuss the winning entry for Contest #977 ("Reading Rainbow Trout").Finalists for Contest #979 ("Off-road driving").Current Contest #981 ("Cat Man Do").Original New Yorker cartoon artwork can be found at:https://www.curatedcartoons.comSend questions or comments to:  [email protected]

A fun podcast this week with cartoonist, Lynn Hsu and frequent contest finalist, Carol Lasky.Lynn and carol have been collaborating on cartoons since Carol won a CartoonStock contest that used one of Lynn's cartoons. Their collaborations have appeared in the New Yorker and other respected publications.We talk with them about their process and the cartoons they've created together.You can find Lynn's cartoons on instagram here:https://www.instagram.com/loopyline/And her website here:https://lynnihsu.comWe discuss the winning entry for Contest #976 (Wait, what?)Finalists for Contest #978 (Surfin' so far, eh?)Current Contest #980 (Soon to beheaded B-listers.)We forgot to do our favorite cartoons from the issue this week. Be assured that they were all very good!We did have some technical glitches in this week's podcast. Vin continues to have some connection issues and we lost Carol for a bit. It all worked out in the end though.You can purchase original New Yorker cartoon art from Curated Cartoons here: https://www.curatedcartoons.comSend us questions or comments to:  [email protected]

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=mhT2iWbYWYgi4cmeAnd 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.comSend us questions or comments to:  [email protected]

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.comAnd 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.comSend us questions or comments to:  [email protected]

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.comHis books and other fun stuff here:https://danmisdea.com/books-stuffAnd his cartoons (TBD) at Comics Kingdom:https://comicskingdom.com/tbd-toons-by-danWe 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.comSend us questions or comments to:  [email protected]

New Yorker cartoonist, Drew Dernavich, returns to the podcast for the ninth time (one more punch on his podcast ticket gets him a free pizza!) We talk about the book he's working on that he hopes to have out by this time next year, his Whisperbubble project  and his Great Holiday Hat Fail. You can find out more about Whisperbubble at his Substack:https://whisperbubble.substack.comYou can find Drew's website here:https://www.drewdernavich.comAnd his collaborations with Nesja Press here:https://www.nesjapress.com/drew-dernavich-collaborationWe discuss the winning entry for Contest #973 (Snowman is an island).Finalists for Contest #975 (Now THESE are nosebleed seats). Current Contest #977 (Catch of the Day on Rye).You can buy original New Yorker cartoon art at Curated Cartoons:https://www.curatedcartoons.comSend us questions or comments to:  [email protected]