Chapter 2 uses gag cartoons to show how image and text interact in comics. In this section you’ll find student gag cartoons for you to print out and add funny captions to. You’ll also find examples of the homework as well as a link to a gag cartoon contest.
Nothing extra this time
If you look ahead to the critique guide in Appendix B, you may be surprised just how much there potentially is to say about one-panel cartoons. These works are little, compressed stories. Give them the attention they deserve. Click to see examples of homework by students with some comments from Matt and Jessica
Once you get good at writing captions for your fellow students, try your hand with the big boys at the New Yorker—they run a cartoon caption contest http://www.newyorker.com/humor/caption/ every week.
Charles Addams, Chas Addams Happily Ever After: A Collection of Cartoons to Chill the Heart of Your Loved One
Peter Arno, Peter Arno
B. Kliban, Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head and Other Drawings
Gary Larson, The Complete Far Side
Joel Smith, Steinberg at the New Yorker
Robert Storr, Raymond Pettibon
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