The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Book

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Imagine: Your carefully crafted caption has been chosen as a finalist — perhaps even the winner — in a competition more challenging than any Olympic event: The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest. One of the most popular features in the magazine, thousands enter each contest, but only one wins.

Now, for the first time ever, The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Book (Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, $24.99) assembles a sampling of the abundantly clever and witty submissions of winners, losers, also-rans, and in-betweens of the more than 350,000 entrants who have submitted more than one million captions since the contest began.

With an introduction by The New Yorker cartoon editor, Robert Mankoff, the collection features 100 of the contest's cartoons paired with their winning captions as well as the top two finalists and top two runners-up. But before you check out the finalists, consider the captionless cartoon on the previous page and come up with an idea or two of your own. You might even feel justified exclaiming, "I could have been a contender!" You'll also find out how the selection as finalists impacted the lives of some of those chosen and fun facts about who enters and why.

And, if 100 cartoons aren't enough to satisfy your caption curiosity, an online database has been created, which contains nearly every submitted caption, enabling followers to judge all the caption candidates themselves.

Get a few tips from The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Book, then remove those training wheels and take your own flying leap at getting your name in lights — or sophisticated black ink.

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The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Book

Introduction by: Robert Mankoff
ISBN: 978-0-7407-7750-9
Format: Hardcover: 10 x 8, 216 pages
Price: $24.99 ($27.50 Canada)