John Klossner returns to the podcast to talk some more about cartoons, Children's book illustrations, his stint doing the Caption Contest Commentary for Beth's facebook group and puns. We really dig into puns on this one (fair warning). Here are the links to the books John worked on: Smalltown City https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZQM2ZBM?lv Everyone's Trash https://www.amazon.com/dp/1942155778?lv And some links to other Caption contests that John contributes cartoons to: https://moderncat.com/...

Olivia Noble joins us on the podcast this week. Olivia Started submitting her cartoons to the New Yorker through Submittable in 2024 and had her first Cartoon published in the magazine in September, 2025. She has had a second cartoon published since than and has had a cartoon appear in a recent caption contest. We talk with Olivia about her journey to becoming a New Yorker cartoonist, her process, cartoons and the never ending thrills of copy editing. She hopes to have a webpage or at least a...

Larry Wood joins us this week to talk about the contests and cartoons from the current issue of the New Yorker. We were all pretty much in agreement with the New Yorker contests, but the podcast gang did take Larry to task for some of the Cartoon Stock picks. Larry was able to defend his personal picks, but could offer no defense for the other judge's picks (he actually agreed with us for a change). Larry also states that he thinks his caption for New Yorker Contest #1000 is one of the ...

Rusty Epstein joins us on the podcast this week. Rusty's cartoons have appeared in The Weekly Humorist, The Times and other magazines and will soon be published in the Wall Street Journal and the New Yorker (he recently received an "O.K.", but it has not been published yet). We talk with Rusty abbot his journey to becoming a cartoonist, his process and the challenge of tracking where you've submitted your cartoons. He has also created and runs the Reverse Caption Contest, a contest where he s...

Avi Steinberg returns to the podcast to talk some more about cartoons, the rewards of being a kindergarten teacher and his soon to be published book, "The Jumble". We also talk about aour love of cartoon tropes (more desert island cartoons? Yes, please!) At the end of the podcast, Avi asks the hosts about their recent attempts at drawing their own cartoons. Those cartoons can be found in the comments at the podcast facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0wy...

Larry Wood joins us this week to talk about the contests and cartoons from the current issue of the New Yorker. We go over the New Yorker contests with some disagreement, but the podcast gang mostly agrees with the judges picks for the CartoonStock contest (except for Paul, who did not like one of the finalist picks). The contest did generate over $1000 for the cash pot, so we were all happy to see that the changes to the contest were generating more entries. We discuss the winning ent...

A short podcast this week with just the podcast co-hosts Vin, Beth, Nicole 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). A straight forward podcast with only a short digression into Lonnie Millsap's world of sentient ground meat products (are the buns clothing or more like hair?) We discuss the winning entry for Contest #992 (Rats, my research proposal lost funding.) Final...

Cartoonist, Peter Kuper joins us on the podcast this week. Peter is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker, is the current cartoonist for Spy Vs Spy in MAD magazine and was nominated for a Pulitzer prize this last year. We talk with him about his career, his recent books, "Insectopolis" and "Wish We Weren't Here". We also talk about "World War 3", an ongoing collection of graphic stories created by a wide range of artists. You can find more about Peter at his website. You can also purchase...

Keith Knight joins us on the podcast this week. Keith is a syndicated cartoonist and has been published in MAD, the New Yorker and many other magazines. He was also a co-creator of the Hulu series, "Woke", which was partially based on his life. His cartoons have won many awards, including a Comic- Con Inkpot Award for Career Achievement in Comics and a Harvey Award for Best Comic Strip. He is currently working on developing one of his cartoons, "One Black Kid" as an animated short. He has a K...

Larry Wood joins us this week to talk about the contests and cartoons from the current issue of the New Yorker. We go over the New Yorker contests without much disagreement, but the podcast gang does have some issues with how the CartoonStock caption judging went. We were all quite happy though to see that the prize pot came close to the previous set amount of $1,000. Keep playing and ask your friends and relatives to play as well. We discuss the winning entry for Contest #989 (You do ...