Every few pages, there's a hilariously inventive piece of cartooning, like a series of drawings of "fancy pigeons" that start out looking almost convincing and end as horrifying abstractions of feathers and eyes, or a set of deadpan explanatory diagrams that dissolve into gibberish on examination (a caption for a drawing of a beetle: "Dangerous. Unite to form Devastator. There is no you").
"The immigration officials arrived at my house and this is how the whole sad nightmare started," wrote another girl in Spanish as a caption to a drawing of cars pulling up to a house filled with people crying inside.
I'll argue that the magazine is more likely to run a great caption with a mediocre drawing before it runs a mediocre caption with a great drawing.
Diamant dubs the anonymous artist "The Electric Pencil" after the caption of one drawing that he guesses might be a self-portrait, and hires a private detective to try and determine his identity.
Fine Arts- Draw and write the caption of a one-panel or multi-panel satirical cartoon about the Iraqi struggle to create a constitution.
A caption last Thursday with a drawing for the Garden Q.&A.
We described this in the caption of a figure, which we realize was easy to miss.
A caption on Sept. 16 for a drawing by Jean Cocteau with the continuation of an article about Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" described the scene incorrectly.
Then they captioned each one, first drawing a series of horizontal lines under the pictures, one for each word, and then writing out each word, or an approximation thereof: For "butterfly," Abigail wrote "btrfli". Their language skills were pretty impressive for kindergarten students.
He opted to donate a limited edition print of a crudely drawn sheep, with the caption "Thinking of EWE".
It's no accident that only once, in the early going of the back-page Cartoon Caption Contest, has a Koren drawing been featured: his images and captions are both inimitable and unfungible.
