Yes, the Wolf Was Rejected
My Return to the Caption Contest Podcast
This week, I joined the good people at the Cartoon Caption Contest to talk about, among other things, how The New Yorker rejected many of my best-known cartoons the first time I submitted them.
This one was rejected more times than I care to remember:
Here are some of the other cartoons we discussed:
You can listen via the link below. My thanks to Beth, Nicole, Vin and Paul for having me on again.
I can’t believe I’m here at the early days of your substack! Before the numbers of likes reach the tens of thousands and the comments go to several hundred in seconds after posting. You’ve long been a favourite cartoonist of mine. I’m sure I have a few in a file folder somewhere.
I like the lawyer one.
And the wolf billboard must be v popular, because I've seen it a few times, good.
Also, the man on the phone looked like a portrait. Not a criticism, but it took me a few seconds to read the caption, and now I can't remember it. Well, maybe it is a criticism, but it's a skill to draw portraits!