They find things fast. Surely this is the clever winner of cartoon caption contest #29, a.k.a. "Republicans have cooties" (OK, maybe it's just "Politicians have cooties"). Note interesting premonitions of his caption in bold:

T.C. Doyle [email] Senior Executive Editor

As Senior Executive Editor of VARBusiness, Doyle is responsible for mapping out the magazine's news coverage, including breaking stories, cover features, software, networking, ASPs, ISPs, interviews and analysis.

An editor and columnist with the award-winning publication, Doyle returned to VARBusiness magazine in April 1999.
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The author of several landmark studies on distribution trends, Doyle has covered the computer industry for more than a decade and has been a frequent speaker at industry events and trade shows.... The author of more than 1,000 technology news articles, columns, features and profiles, Doyle resides in Park City, Utah.

It's not the first time a winner's background has proven useful for his or her caption. (It's also not the first time the great Gahan Wilson has contributed a drawing for the contest.) In any case, how does T.C. Doyle feel about winning the contest whose semifinalist results were published in the same issue as a short story by T.C. Boyle? Has this been a helpful connection or an irksome confusion? What would Boyle think of Doyle's impish paisley projection? Why does Doyle think the politician in Wilson's drawing is more Napoleon Dynamite than Jon Huntsman, Jr.? There's only one way to find out.

Update: He's out of town for a spell. We'll catch up with him later.

Categories: Cartoons, Contest, Wilson