Innholdsfortegnelse for Cartoons of the Year 2015 i The New Yorker

ROBB ARMSTRONG CHARLES BARSOTTI HARRY BLISS DAVID BORCHART PAT BYRNES ROZ CHAST TOM CHENEY TOM CHITTY FRANK COTHAM MICHAEL CRAWFORD LEO CULLUM JOE DATOR MATTHEW STILES DAVIS DREW DERNAVICH MATTHEW DIFFEE BOB ECKSTEIN MITRA FARMAND LIANA FINCK ED FISHER EMILY FLAKE ALEX GREGORY SAM GROSS WILLIAM HAEFELI KAAMRAN HAFEEZ WILLIAM HAMILTON CHARLIE HANKIN SIDNEY HARRIS CAROLITA JOHNSON ZACHARY KANIN BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN FARLEY KATZ JASON ADAM KATZENSTEIN JOHN KLOSSNER EDWARD KOREN KEN KRIMSTEIN ROBERT LEIGHTON ARNIE LEVIN ROBERT MANKOFF MARISA ACOCELLA MARCHETTO MICHAEL MASLIN WILL MCPHAIL WARREN MILLER PAUL NOTH JOHN O’BRIEN DREW PANCKERI COREY PANDOLPH BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ DANNY SHANAHAN MICHAEL SHAW DAVID SIPRESS BARBARA SMALLER TREVOR SPAULDING EDWARD STEED AVI STEINBERG PETER STEINER MICK STEVENS TOM TORO MIKE TWOHY P. C. VEY LIAM FRANCIS WALSH KIM WARP JULIA…

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BY THE GUY WHO’S WON IT SIX TIMES How did I get to be the greatest, winningest, all-time Caption Contest champion of all time, ever? Here’s how: I have a method. To illustrate it, let me start with a contest I didn’t win. I came in second, darn it, and while the pain of that near-miss is still fresh I doubt I can win anybody’s sympathy by moaning about how I won only six times instead of seven. So here goes. Like most drawings that appear in the contest, this one had two disparate elements (boxing and giants) that had to be addressed and reconciled. Because the referee was gesturing toward one of the boxers and making an announcement, my first caption was, “And, in this corner, weighing in at…

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Here’s the cartoon: a gray sea, a few hazy clouds, a ship in the water, and, in a box in the upper left-hand corner, words that read “The Private Doubts of Christopher Columbus.” A little bubble extends from a white sail bearing a cross, letting us know that when Columbus looked out at the horizon he had the following thought: “It sure looks flat.” Let me ruin this joke for you, since it’s kind of what I do. The premise is that Christopher Columbus, the great Italian explorer, has set out on a trip to the Indies by heading west instead of east, because he suspects—contrary to what the ruling establishments of fifteenth-century Europe supposedly held—that the world is not flat. The comedy comes from the idea that, midway through…