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

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:

    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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