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Call for Submissions: The Leonard Lopate Show Cartoon Contest

Filed under: Seal Barks Tagged: Bob Mankoff, Cartoon Caption Contest, cartoons, Drew Dernavich, Leonard Lopate, O Caption! My Caption!, radio, WNYC

We're pleased to bring the jocular doodlers among you news of a rare opportunity: Now that cartoon caption contests are all the rage, why not a contest for the cartoons themselves?

WNYC public radio host Leonard Lopate and New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff had the same thought, and are joining forces to host just such a competition. Naturally, they thought of the readership of Emdashes as a promising source of entrants.

Here are the details: Whip up a cartoon on the subject of Thanksgiving, give it a caption, get it into .jpg or .gif format, and post it to this Flickr group before 12 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2007. Mankoff will then choose his favorites and discuss them on The Leonard Lopate Show one week later, the day before Thanksgiving, November 21, 2007. (Don't forget that Thanksgiving is on its earliest possible day this year.)

So bust out your pens, brushes, electronic tablets, crayons, lipsticks, woodcutting equipment, what have you, and do us proud! If the resultant radio segment consists of nothing but Emdashes readers, that's just fine with us. —Martin Schneider

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This is submitted as a cartoon idea:

ATTENTION! NYC EXPATRIATS
COME HOME FOR THAT SEMI-PERMANENT
FINAL RESTING PLACE

CREMATION PLUS FREE DISPOSAL
Your ashes will come home to rest in a place of
your choice as per these examples:

GARBAGE PAILS* AT STREET INTERSECTION
OF YOUR CHOICE

HUDSON OR EAST RIVERS*

NYC SEWER SYSTEM* (YOUR CHOICE OF MANHOLE)
(*STARTING POINTS ONLY – NO GUARANTEE
WHERE YOU WILL END UP)

Gene BudayDecember 30, 2007

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