Is it a Swipe ? Is it a Hommage ? No, it’s the New Yorker !

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Wim Lockefeer

Lyle Tucker spotted the above caption competition in this week’s issue of the New Yorker. And quickly found out what it reminded him from…

I guess that caption is found, then.

(with thanks to Tom Lammers of the KirbyComics Group, and to Van Reid; Tales To Astonish art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers, © 1962, Vista Publications)

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One Response to Is it a Swipe ? Is it a Hommage ? No, it’s the New Yorker !

  1. potrzebie says:
    May 10, 2008 at 1:52 am

    I remeber when the last page of the New Yorker used to run actual comics. Nice, full-color pieces by Roz Chast, or Ed Sorel, Or Chris Ware, or any of a hundred of their semi-regulars. I suppose the Kaption Kontest is popular, but damned if it doesn’t suck

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