r/comics • u/Casual_Deviant Bummer Party • 22d ago
OC Some of my recent New Yorker rejects [OC]
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u/Casual_Deviant Bummer Party 22d ago edited 22d ago
Hope you guys enjoy!
If you want more cartoons (that are funnier than mine), I run a quarterly Reverse Caption Contest for artists — everyone receives the same prompt and has to create the cartoon that turns it into a punchline. We're currently in the voting stage, so you can browse the 69 submissions and vote for your favorites here.
(Plus, a lot of r/comics regulars are competing!)
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u/cyllibi 22d ago
Cool contest. I love a lot of the entries. Don't have the skill to realize it, but my immediate thought when I saw the theme was a door opening to an immediate stone wall with a cut out for a person a la The Enigma of Amigara Fault and the door opener gesturing to someone else in the room "This is for you".
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u/Casual_Deviant Bummer Party 22d ago
We actually get submissions from absolute beginners (like literally never drawn a cartoon before in their life) that do very well because the joke is able to carry the cartoon, so I wouldn’t let “skill” stop you from entering future contests!
Also we do allow joint entries, so if you’ve got a friend who’s a talented artist, send your idea their way and work together on it!
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u/infinityonhigh69 22d ago
i love this!! just had so many little giggles. i voted and ill be back on the 5th to see who won 🫡
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u/StevenStephen 22d ago
Honestly, I absolutely loved them. I found them funnier than most I see in the New Yorker. *shrugs
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u/flibble24 22d ago
Every single one of these is brilliant
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u/senatorium 22d ago
I enjoyed the eagle one in particular.
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u/SortovaGoldfish 22d ago
My favorites gotta be the cave couple that did not make it to the discovery of fire ending up in Hell
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u/gruesomeflowers 22d ago
thank you..i came here looking for an understanding of that panel, and now i have one.
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u/angelbelle 22d ago
I thought the joke was that they're punished for not believing in god before the abrahamic religions were invented but yours is more fun
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u/BlaBlub85 22d ago
Technically, at least the catholic church got that one covered by various edicts & decrees by varying popes. Theres provisions for aliens (extraterrestrials, not foreigners) too
Short version: Everyone that was prevented from learning about Jesus for reasons of time or location (uncontacted tribes as well as extraterrestrials) goes to a version of purgatory where they get the chance to accept Jesus as their saviour and thus be redeemed
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u/zayetz 22d ago
The "wtf is that orange stuff" got a hearty chortle out of me 😂
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u/PrincessGiallo 22d ago
Why is that the funniest thing I've seen in a while? It's so simple and so silly.
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u/matrael 22d ago
That’s the only one I didn’t get.
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u/BooksBabiesAndCats 22d ago
Bald eagle
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u/llamagoelz 22d ago
Wow. Why did I also need that one explained to me? Lol
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u/cullenjwebb 22d ago
Yeah I was trying to figure out what the hair meant on the other eagle, I feel silly now.
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u/TrainDestroyer 22d ago
Sometimes the joke is really just that simple, you're looking for what the punchline is with the out of place eagle and don't realize "Oh they're literally called bald eagles"
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u/dudeAwEsome101 22d ago
Oooooh, the long hair the honestly distracted me from the fact he is a bald eagle. Sorry, just Eagle.
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u/ButtsTheRobot 22d ago
It took me a solid 15 seconds looking at it before it set in but I legit belly laughed once it did.
So dumb, so effective.
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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut 22d ago
I loved the looks on the mom's face when their child came out as hay 😂
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u/zonerator 22d ago
"Tell them we met on tinder" is killing me
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u/Glove-Box-Heart 22d ago
For real, my husband and I met online in the 90s, and tbh it was an embarrassing thing to admit at the time. We used to lie and say a mutual friend introduced us.
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u/xXDJjonesXx 22d ago
There was this Smosh sketch years ago which made fun of this exact thing happening. They showed a couple in the 2000s lying about meeting online and saying they met irl, and then a couple in the 2010s lying about meeting irl and saying they met online.
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u/nitid_name 22d ago
In the oughts, my neighbors told me I was "brave" for saying I met my then girlfriend on Match or whatever we used back then.
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u/Chacin_Cologne_No1 22d ago
This one was the most New Yorker of the bunch, along with the bald eagle. Most of the others were funny but more or less just puns.
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u/NoStatus9434 22d ago
I like the clown and Matryoshka doll one because it implies that the trick behind clown cars is that one clown simply reproduces via binary fission.
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u/Cat-Sonantis 22d ago
I avoided Amazon for ages, then several of the things I used to avoid it started using Amazon logistics for shipping. They seem to be unavoidable...
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u/Beldarak 22d ago
I try to use a local equivalent in my country but they often don't have a lot of choices, it's kinda annoying but every buy where I don't give money to Bezos feels like a big victory :)
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u/Cat-Sonantis 22d ago
Not a lot of choices is fine, no choices for the thing or things I'm going for kinda changes it though, sometimes even specialist shops might not have what I'm looking for. If I can avoid Amazon I will but it's just gaulling to go somewhere else to avoid only to have them deliver it anyway.
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u/Beldarak 21d ago
Yes. Boycott has pretty strong limits so I don't think it's worse getting bankrupt over it.
The best way is still to vote ethically, and try to build a better world where those 0-ethics companies couldn't exists.
I try to avoid Amazon as much as possible but won't lose sleep if I can't avoid it for some stuff. When you live in a broken society, you have to play by its crooked rules. But I thin kchange will come. More and more people are sick with the bullshit.
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u/J_Linnea 22d ago
I hate that some audiobooks I want are audible exclusive. I just want to listen to Dungeon Crawler Carl guilt free.
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u/amazingbollweevil 22d ago
God, how I miss "The Rejection Collection." For those not in the know, someone at the New Yorker created a book with numerous rejected cartoons from various artists. There were so many "Yikes!" moments.
My favorite was a scene with two witches sitting at a restaurant table, reading the menu. One witch says "I'm thinking of having a baby." Yeah, it was that good.
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u/auktember 22d ago
I remember when we got that first book and my brother read it a million times because it was his first time seeing titties
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u/Sad_Mood_8747 22d ago
They are all very good but specially 6 is fire!
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u/Figorix 22d ago
6 is what?
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u/Burakku-Ren 22d ago
I didn’t really understand it. Is it saying people before the “invention” of fire didn’t know what it is? Most of the others I found genius but I don’t get this one.
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u/UberNZ 22d ago
Well, you actually did get it, but I guess the extra layer is that it's obvious they would actually know what fire is, so it's poking fun at the idea that cavepeople invented fire. I guess there's also the layer of it being funny they're sent to the "bad" afterlife of a religion that was invented tens of thousands of years after they died.
Honestly, the more you think about it, the more absurd it is. It smashes together various things you hear as a kid, but which can't possibly coexist together.
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u/zayetz 22d ago
It's poking fun at religion. The idea is, if there's this very specific afterlife for certain people, and it's been around for eternity, then what did early humans - who were around before the invention/observation of fire - think of it when they got sent to hell for being bad cave people?
It's an absurd joke because the joke is that religion is absurd.
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u/IamChicharon 22d ago
The cavemen in hell made me legitimately laugh out loud. I think that’s a first for me for any post on r/comics
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u/2ChicksAtTheSameTime 22d ago
I didn't notice they were cavepeople. Now I get it.
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u/TheMayanAcockandlips 22d ago
Same, that was the only one I didn't get until reading the comments. I got a chuckle out of all the rest though. And now I can chortle with understanding at this one as well
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u/wrongleveeeeeeer 22d ago
This was my absolute favorite of a very fine bunch and also had me laughing and downloading
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u/Jacob_Laye 22d ago
My only personal nitpick is that peeing and crying should have been pissing and moaning, but that’s just me. These are great!
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u/GrokLobster 22d ago
That one is my personal favorite. But also I like comparing the literalism of 'peeing and crying' against the aphorism, because I think it points out exactly what the hell it is you're actually saying.
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u/AsstBalrog 22d ago
I think that's worth a re-work OP, might sell that way?
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u/Casual_Deviant Bummer Party 22d ago
I actually disagree — I think it’s funnier the original way!
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u/stillreallylikespace 22d ago
Yupp you're right, the comic props the absurdity and discordance of the second door with the common expression on the first. "Pissing and moaning" is just common slang too, where's the punch if you replace the original with a standard phrase?
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u/Mr__Strider 22d ago
I’m dense on #8
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u/WindowViking 22d ago
Help a brother out. For the life of me I cant figure out the Donut one…
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u/Jefficus_Maximus 22d ago
It's a plain bagel and an everything bagel
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u/WindowViking 22d ago
Aaight, thank you! Being from Europe I never saw them as bagels (which are an NYC staple of streetfood right?)
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u/Yagwobniar 22d ago
Not streetfood, more like something you get in in a café. Streetfood in NYC would be more like hotdogs.
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u/Jam_Salad_is_my_Jam 22d ago
Bagels were invented in Europe, 400 years of culinary tradition and this is the respect we get already!
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u/UserMcUserson 22d ago edited 22d ago
These are all brilliant except I didnt get #6. I think I'm missing the joke. He doesn't know what fire is? Is it a nod to the orange pedophile president being in hell?
Edit: ok, Cavemen before discovering fire! This makes so much sense now. Thanks all. I can safely say these are all brilliant including #6.
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u/justsomeonesmeme 22d ago
They are cavemen from before we discovered fire and Christian beliefs weren't around but the joke is pointing out that Christians believe that anyone who doesnt accept Christ as their savior goes to hell (the pit of fire) and they also don't know what fire is yet
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u/EstablishmentNext898 22d ago
I think it's early humans (cavemen in the comic) that haven't discovered fire yet
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u/Kaoss134 22d ago
My head canon is there’s a stall off-panel that says “screaming, crying, throwing up
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u/Substantial_Desk_670 22d ago
"What's all that orange stuff?"
That's fantastic on so many levels. They rejected that?
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u/Nirast25 22d ago
Can someone explain #9?
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u/roux-de-secours 22d ago
It's an "everything" bagel.
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u/No-Jacket-2927 22d ago
These are excellent! Several of them got me, New Yorker is lame! 😄
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u/IngloriousTom 22d ago
They don't show you the accepted ones, which must be hilarious since those were rejected.
Loved everyone of them, nice work OP
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u/No-Jacket-2927 22d ago
You'd think that, but I used to have a print subscription to the New Yorker, and I know better. 😬
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u/Funkupotamous 22d ago
#3 is great. I enjoyed all them, thanks for sharing!
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u/Electronic-Fig2283 22d ago
I don't understand 3, can you help me?
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u/inlovewithadeadman 22d ago
Men getting credit for women’s ideas/ only
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u/anotherSasha 22d ago
Damn, the last one kinda blew my mind. But I don’t know much about the guy as a historical figure. I always thought that most of the story was written by embellished impressions of his followers. Like, “dude, I’ve heard he was conceived without the nasty!”
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u/BacchusInvictus 22d ago
Based on these and based on the handful of published New Yorker Comics I've read, these are far too funny and good.
Your humor is too sharp. Gotta bland it down a little. edit to be perfectly clear - please don't actually do that. Find a different outlet or keep trying. I'd read the hell outta your stuff. This is great.
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u/Casual_Deviant Bummer Party 22d ago
I’d definitely recommend reading more New Yorker cartoons — they’re very often the best of the best!
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u/Normal-Cow-9784 22d ago
These are great but can someone explain number 3. I don't get it.
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u/Panthalassae 22d ago edited 22d ago
Very common for women in business is being talked over or casually ignored, but if a man repeats the thing she just said people's eyes light up and they praise him for the Great Idea. I have heard examples from multiple colleagues.
I myself am quite loud and taller than most men, so no personal anecdotes. Apparently I'm usually intimidating enough to be heard.
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u/999BusinessCard 22d ago
As a man, I’ve seen that what’s very common for women in business is being talked over or casually ignored, but if a man repeats the thing she just said people's eyes light up and they praise him for the Great Idea. I have heard examples from multiple colleagues.
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u/Dullcorgis 22d ago
I don't know why no one had posted an explanation of this before, thanks for this, good sir!
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u/joelikesmusic 22d ago
these are awesome. possible to buy them from you direclty ( want to use the bagel one in a card to put in my wife's luggage for an upcoming trip)
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u/Casual_Deviant Bummer Party 22d ago
I do have many cartoons up on CartoonStock, but I’m not sure if the bagel’s there yet! I’ll check today and get it up shortly if not.
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u/life_in_resin 22d ago
I really enjoyed all of these, but the nesting doll and clown made me laugh the most. It’s the kind of humor my grandpa loved.
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u/IconicBluePigeon 22d ago
I saw your caveman one before and got a good laugh out of it, seeing it again still got me!
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u/BodhingJay 22d ago
Lol
These are pretty great but im not surprised the papers didnt take you on, theyd get a lot of angry phone calls
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u/plastigoop 22d ago
Rejects???!!! “These are gold, Jerry!!” No, really, these are good. Several had me literal LOL, Eg. Bagel, hay, tinder, orange..
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u/blaziken8x 22d ago
not gonna lie, you could have been posting these 1 by 1 daily and farming some karma, because they're all great
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u/NicoBango 22d ago
I surprised they rejected a few of these to be honest these are great.