New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
In depth discussion of the weekly New Yorker Caption Contest as well as interviews with Cartoonists and former Contest winners.
Email: CartoonCaptionContestPodcast@gmail.com
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Intro/Outro music created and performed by Chris Nesja.
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New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
Episode 201 - Robert Leighton
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New Yorker cartoonist, Robert Leighton joins us on the second half of the podcast this week.
Robert started drawing cartoons at an early age and started a comic strip, called Carl & Goober, when he was eight. The strip was very much influenced by Walt Kelly's, Pogo and Robert even used one of its characters in a strip he did for the Northwestern University Humor magazine. His first cartoon in the New Yorker was published in 2002 and he has been a frequent contributor ever since. He is also a well know puzzle maker, starting his puzzling career in the late 1980s at GAMES Magazine.
You can find more about Robert at his website here:
https://robert-leighton.com
You can find more of his cartoons at his instagram page:
https://www.instagram.com/roberteleighton
Robert and Paul talk about The Firesign Theatre, a very funny comedy group.
https://firesigntheatre.com
On Part 1 of the episode, we discuss the current contests:
Winning captions for New Yorker contest #939 (Medusa du jour.)
Finalists for contest #941 (Piano noir.)
Current New Yorker contest #943 (Couching up a hairball.)
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
Dig deep into the New Yorker cartoon caption contest data at:
https://wordsbelow.app
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