The Newyorker Cartoon by Mick Stevens

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    11 days ago

    Sure, how about,

    “We should have brought a bigger probe.”

    Or how about,

    “I guess we’ll see if they still fling their poop.”

    Or for some topical flare, how about,

    “You sure about this? These guys have a terrible reputation with aliens.”

    All of these slightly change the context w/o the need to change the art.

    I’m fairly certain a number of these cartoonists either “meal prep” a bunch of illustrations to caption later or maybe even sell the illustrations to the New Yorker who then have writers create the captions. I can’t say but imo it makes for bland cartoons 9 out of 10 times.