Visions of Zippy: A Talk With Bill Griffith
by Alan Bisbort Wednesday, February 8, 2012 11:32 pm
Alan Bisbort talks to Bill Griffith, creator of "Zippy the Pinhead".
Levi Asher • January 22nd, 2014
Some of you have met Eli Stein before; he's written Litkicks articles about P. G. Wodehouse and Al Jaffee, and he's my father. He's also a cartoonist with a body of published work dating back to the 1950s. If you've read a lot of the Wall Street Journal or Chronicle of Higher Education or Good Housekeeping or National Enquirer, you've probably seen his work, and might recognize his clean, round graphic style, which to my admiring filial eye always resembled the classic drawing style of Syd Hoff or Charles Schulz.
A few years ago I built my dad a blog, which he maintains and regularly updates himself (he does a great job with it, and I wish most of my other website clients were as productive and technically drama-free as he has been). One of the regular features on the Eli Stein Cartoons blog is a cartoon caption contest, originally inspired by the New Yorker's cartoon caption contest. The latest entry has just gone up, and since it has a bookish theme I thought I'd share it here and invite my Litkicks friends and readers to submit entries. Please give it a try! You don't win anything except a congratulations and a good time. Enjoy ... Eli Stein Cartoon Caption Contest #62.
UPDATE: The winner (it wasn't me) was announced here.
5 Responses to "Eli Stein's Cartoon Caption Contest"
I have an extremely English caption in mind. Will give it a try!
No, not at all, on you it looks good, I just never knew "Preparation-H" was a hair mousse product!
Thanks Tim, but you have to click through to http://elisteincartoons.com to submit a caption.
Now he tells me! (Thought I did enter it?) Must have had my head up my Preparation-H! Thanks.
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