New Yorker Caption Contest Backlash



As long as I don't spend time agonizing over the result, I enjoy writing captions to already-existing art. Back during a brief time I got to help write a comic strip, I was asked to write for existing art a few times as an aid to help us adhere to schedule. The most popular place for people to do this on-line is probably the New Yorker Caption Contest. Now, apparently, there's a backlash, which I think is a consequence of the New Yorker's stronger emphasis these last few years on branding itself as a certain kind of reading experience, the kind a lot of people resent, combined with the fact you can go at a populist contest from the other direction, as gimmickry not worthy of the magazine's storied history. Even the denizens of the Comics Journal Message Board hate the Contest, although they seem to just think it's stupid.

My entry: "Welcome to the Big Leagues, Doolittle!"
 
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