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The Local's Maplewoodstock Cartoon Caption Contest Winner Announced

Read about the winner of the NYTimes.com, The Local's special Cartoon Caption Contest for Maplewoodstock Here

Since our unbesmirchable judge and co-blogger, Andy Newman, is on vacation this week, we had to find an unbesmirchable Times editor, Maplewood resident and festival attendee, Phyllis Messinger, to don the robes, blindfold and thought balloon of Cartoon Judge.

Here are the winners she chose:

“I swam my tail off at the Duck Races & now I’m a Nobody,” by Robb Bothe.

Second place:

“What time does the Rubber People Race begin?” by Beth Boily.



And, Honorable Mention, awarded by our marketing department to Maria Seigenthaler for:

“You’d have known the duck races were last month if you’d checked The Local!”

Robb wins a terrific bag of Times-related swag (coffee mug! t-shirt/tote-bag stuff! and more!) and a signed copy of the cartoon with his caption. Beth wins a copy of the cartoon with her caption on it, signed by Phil. And Maria earns our undying gratitude.

Cartoon Caption Contest at Maplewoodstock, July 11 and 12, 2009

"There is Strangeness in the Universe" and the New York Times', "The Local" sponsored a Cartoon Caption Contest at Maplewoodstock, the music festival in Maplewood, New Jersey on July 11 and 12, 2009. There were forty-five captions entered. The winner of the contest will receive the captioned cartoon as well as a gift bag donated by the subscription department of the New York Times. The winner will be announced in a future edition of The Local.

Find out who won here

Cartoon is printed in New York Times of July 12, 2009

The latest cartoon caption contest, hosted by the NYTimes.com, "The Local" is featured in the print edition of the Sunday New York Times on page 12 of the Metropolitan Section. If you want to enter a caption You can go here and try your luck. There are prizes for the winning caption.

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NYTimes.com The Local Week 11 Cartoon Caption Contest Winner

There Is A Winner, Read About It Here!

And congratulations to Bob Schwartz, for the following caption of the previous contest:

“Why I agreed to play this role, at scale, I’ll never know.”

Our judge, Andy Newman, the Brooklyn Local’s reporter-blogger, commented, “This one is totally phil’s fault. An impossible cartoon to caption (unless he had something very specific in mind that i’m totally missing). You can tell em i said that.”

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