Liza’s book is really fun and I hope you will order it. ![]() ![]() I really want to thank Liza for doing this! It has been such a fun experience and many thanks to all Life of Spice readers for participating. So the winner is BARB!! Many congrats and here is your caption on the cartoon:īarb – Please email me your address so we can get you Liza’s fantastic book! Also–and this is Liza speaking– I can relate to this, as many can: I can never find the cinnamon.” It brings to mind the humor of the dog actually using a spice. Her worried look, the dog’s deadpan delivery. We chose this one because of how it went with the drawing–specifically how the words work with the facial expressions of the two characters. “It was a difficult decision choosing the winner, particularly among the finalists. You buy one more spice and I’m calling Spices Anonymous on you!Īnd here is what they had to say about the process of picking the winner: When I said I liked ginger, I meant the terrier next door.Īll those jars and nothing to make it taste like the trash?ĭon’t look at me. I can never find the cinnamon when I want it, either. Judges Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin, New Yorker cartoonists picked the following finalists and the winner: I am pleased to say that we had over 240 entries! We had a contest for readers to submit a winning caption. “I’d have to be inspired again - but I’m not changing my day job.Earlier this fall, New Yorker cartoonist, Liza Donnelly, drew a fantastic and fun cartoon for this blog. “I sort of feel I want to be a one-hit wonder,” He says - without ruling out the possibility that he might enter the contest again one day. Now Leonard sounds ready to rest on his laurels. “ ‘Nine lives’ was the hook I needed,’ he says. 371 was his first try in years - and the winning concept came to him out of the blue. “Then I took a hiatus when I realized how much better the other people writing captions were.”Ĭontest No. Leonard tried his hand at the contest in the beginning, he says. (Upon hearing of his death earlier this week, the magazine’s cartoon editor put the favorites among his entries online.) Since the contest began in April 2005, it has attracted many thousands of entries from would-be humorists, including the late film critic Roger Ebert, who entered 107 times and won once. ![]() According to contest rules, it’s worth $250 and the winner is responsible for any tax obligations. The cartoon also appears in the April 8 print edition.įor his labors, Leonard wins a signed copy of the cartoon, by artist Joe Dator, with the caption. Jumping right to the contest page at the back, he learned the good news. He downloaded the edition on his iPad, his favorite way of reading the magazine. On the Sunday night when he knew the winner would be revealed, Leonard was at home in Berkeley with his wife. “My son said, ‘I think the alternative was good.’ “ When an email arrived announcing that he was one of three finalists, he says, he was with both of his adult children, helping his daughter paint the interior of a house she recently bought. They pick the top three submitted captions and ask the readers to pick the weekly winner. Each week, the editors post a cartoon and ask readers to come up with a funny caption for it. He was there late last week for a session of the Coalition for Network Information, which, as he says, “doesn’t sound like a cartoon - and it isn’t.” The New Yorker publishes a weekly Cartoon Caption Contest has been running for more than 10 years. You do the math.” New Yorker judges picked it as one of three finalists, and readers voted it their top pick.Īs news of Leonard’s win flashed around the Berkeley campus, the campus librarian spoke with the NewsCenter from San Antonio, Texas. The cartoon, with Tom Leonard’s winning caption.
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