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Got this cartoon in this week’s The New Yorker. Sold last winter, the caption has been slightly modified by suggestion from my editor (originally had been: “Look honey! I got a brand new huge red bow for our car!”).

I still have the list of alternate captions, ten in all! (He thought it was too wordy. I thought, then why waste more words talking about it? But I’m absolutely amenable to criticism, and was very happy to get it sold and off my hands, since I’d been thinking of doing this gag for at least two years! The more concise caption works very well, I think.)

The car had originally been a dented heap, but we didn’t think readers needed to be hit over the head with the gag. So I re-did it. And there you have the life story of a published cartoon.

I’ll post a rejected cartoon tomorrow, for you to throw rotten tomatoes at, at your pleasure.

Posted Monday, June 19th, 2006 at 5:07 pm under rejected cartoons, TNY. Feel free to trackback from your own site. All images on newyorkette.com are the intellectual property of Carolita Johnson, and you must ask (and receive) express permission to use them or reproduce them in any way whatsoever.