Katherine Bettis Joins us on the podcast this week.Katherine is a fairly new cartoonist to the scene, but has already had her cartoons published in Airmail, Woman's World, The Weekly Humorist and a small publication called the New Yorker.We talk with her about how she got into cartooning, her process and her cartoons.
We also learn that she has a degree in architecture and is a musician. Once again, we try to figure out what the connection is between these vocations and cartooning.

You can find Katherine's cartoons on her instagram page here:
https://www.instagram.com/katherinebettis

On Part 1 of the episode, we discuss the current contests:

Winning captions for New Yorker contest #972 (Comedy of terrors.)

Finalists for contest #974 (Squeaky clean lift and jerks.)

Current New Yorker contest #976 (I never Maître d' I didn't like.)

We also talk about our favorite cartoons from the current issue of the New Yorker.

You can find the reverse caption contest Katherine mentions here:
https://www.reversecaptioncontest.com

And the results of The New Yorker reverse caption contest can be found here:
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bob-mankoff/the-reverse-caption-contest

You can buy original New Yorker cartoon art at Curated Cartoons:https://www.curatedcartoons.com

Send us questions or comments to: Cartooncaptioncontestpodcast@gmail.com

Larry Wood joins us for our monthly discussion about the CartoonStock contest. We have a good discussion about whether an obvious caption should be picked as a finalist (and congratulations to our own Beth for having her not obvious caption picked as a finalist in that contest!)

We discuss the winning entry for Contest #971 (I've been chipper.)

Finalists for Contest #973 (Long time listener, first time colder.)

Current Contest #975 (That's one small snap for man.)

As Paul mentions in the podcast, cartoonist Tommy Siegel has an excellent podcast, "Extremely Accurate Bird Songs". You can find it here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/.../extremely.../id1809194651

You can order Larry's book, "Your Caption Has Been Selected: More Than Anyone Could Possibly Want to Know About The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest" here:
https://www.amazon.com/Your-Caption-Has-Been-Selected/dp/1250333407/

You can find Victor Chongchua's Words Below Website here:
https://wordsbelow.app

You can purchase original New Yorker cartoon art from Curated Cartoons here: https://www.curatedcartoons.com

Send us questions or comments to: Cartooncaptioncontestpodcast@gmail.com

On this week's episode, Vin, Paul, Beth and Nicole review past and present contests from 2025 and choose our best and worst of the year. We also talk a bit about the CartoonStock contest and our favorite regular cartoons from the issue for the year.
We talk a bit about Keith Huie's caption for the Finalists of contest #972. Keith is a terrific artist living in Wisconsin (just a couple of towns over from Paul) and you should check out his art here:
https://shopotlag.com/collections/all/artist_keith-huie?

And you can follow him on social media:
https://www.facebook.com/KeithHuieArt
https://www.instagram.com/huieart/

And of course, we discuss...
The winning captions for New Yorker contest #970 (A deathly good read.)
(Congratulations to our own Nicole for her first place win!)
Finalists for contest #972 (Caption flame out!)
Current New Yorker contest #974 (The Rat Six-Pack.)

Dig into the contest data at Victor Chongchua'a great website, WordsBelow:
https://wordsbelow.app

You can buy original New Yorker cartoon art at Curated Cartoons:
https://www.curatedcartoons.com

Send us questions or comments to:
Cartooncaptioncontestpodcast@gmail.com