Cartoonist Harry Bliss joins us on the second half of the podcast this week.
Harry has been contributing to the New Yorker since 1998, first as a cover artist and also as a cartoonist. He has recently collaborated with Steve Martin in a series of cartoons that have been collected in the book, "A Wealth of Pigeons". Harry also illustrated Steve's book, "Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions", about Steve's career in the movies.
Harry has recently had his memoir published as a graphic novel, "You Can Never Die: A Graphic Memoir".

You can find more about Harry Bliss at his website:
https://store.harrybliss.com

You can find his daily cartoon, "Bliss", at GoComics:
https://www.gocomics.com/bliss

And you can order Harry's books here:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Harry-Bliss/author/B000APP8SE


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

Winning captions for New Yorker contest #949 (Overboard Meeting).

Finalists for contest #951 (Channel Suffering in Hell).

Current New Yorker contest #953 (Clarence, the Floss-ed Lion).

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

Screenwriter and cartoonist, Alex Gregory joins us on the podcast this week. Alex was a guest on the podcast three years ago and we mostly talked about his career in cartooning on that episode (#66). On this episode, we go over some of our favorite cartoons of his and talk more about his screenwriting. The most recent show he's been a writer on is "The Studio", which was recently nominated for 23 Emmy's (the most for any first season comedy series)!

You can check out Alex's IMDp page here:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339733/

You can find "The Studio" on Apple TV+:
https://www.apple.com/lae/apple-tv-plus/

And "The White House Plumbers" on HBO Max:
https://www.hbomax.com

Alex also joins us for the contest discussions and our favorite cartoons from the current issue of the New Yorker.

The winning caption for New Yorker contest #948 (The court is in season).

Finalists for contest #950 (Sausage vest).

Current New Yorker contest #952 (My Dinner With Android).

We mentioned Paul Karasik's patreon page in the podcast:
https://www.patreon.com/c/paulkarasik/posts

And you can buy the book that Paul helped to illustrate, "Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy", here:
https://www.amazon.com/Paul-Austers-New-York-Trilogy/dp/0553387642

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

Dig deep into the New Yorker cartoon caption contest data at:
https://wordsbelow.app

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

Larry Wood, the all time New Yorker cartoon caption contest winner, author and CartoonStock caption contest judge, joins us again to talk about the current New Yorker contests, our favorite cartoons from this week’s issue of the New Yorker and the latest CartoonStock contest.
We have the usual spirited debates with Larry about the contest finalists and we take a few digressions into politics and the much more controversial debate on what was the better show, "Seinfeld" or "Curb Your Enthusiasm".

We discuss the winning entry for Contest #947 (Cartoon Catch & Release Podcast.)

Finalists for Contest #949 (Daddy took her T-bonds away.)

Current Contest #951 (Hot couch potato.)

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

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