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Kanye Tweets Become <em>New Yorker</em> Cartoon Captions

Kanye Tweets Become New Yorker Cartoon Captions

Rapper Kanye West recently, and finally, joined Twitter. He may be fashionably late to the 140-character game, but he's delivering—and possibly even dominating. His little lexical gems have included, "Fur pillows are hard to actually sleep on," and "wuuuuuuuuuut I need this goblet in my life!!!" more ›

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Controversy

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Controversy

Cartoonist Harry Bliss has been drawn into a bit of controversy over at the New Yorker because his illustration for last week’s cartoon caption contest (right) is the spitting image of a Marvel comic book cover from 1962 (left). Bliss’s editors were seemingly unaware of the resemblance, and no credit was given to the original, inked by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers. And yes, life is now imitating Seinfeld episode #169, in which The New Yorker publishes a Ziggy cartoon inadvertently plagiarized by “some charlatan” (Elaine). more ›

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