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...sounds like this is a turning point in your life, vis-à-vis children. What a great way to go into your second childhood. Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look. I'm overexaggerated and my voice is small and my name is Dolly and I'm kind of like a Mother Goose character. So I think that it's going to be a fun thing...
...Cartoons decrying state media are now sweeping the Facebook sites that function as an information transit point for protesters and their sympathizers. "Lying media, our shame, national TV" reads one cartoon, while a photograph of a Tehran window display shows a TV set bearing this banner: "There is nothing more vile than wounding the pride of a people." (See pictures of the turbulent aftermath of Iran's election...
...time winner. There could have been 100 people who sent in something along the same lines. There was one time when I turned in what ended up being the winning caption, but perhaps 1,000 people sent it in; I think it was a pretty obvious fit for the cartoon. When more than one person submits the winning caption, they just choose a winner at random. That's just the luck of the draw...
What are the top two or three tips you have for caption writers? Be brief. Try to incorporate everything that's going on in the cartoon. Sometimes somebody will submit a caption that addresses one thing going on in the cartoon, but not something else that's pretty obvious. I think the more successful captions address everything that's going on. I'll depart from Patrick House here. He said not to try to be too funny. I think you should try to be as funny as you can. He's right that sometimes you see a winning caption that...
Watch TIME's video "How to Be a Cartoon Voice...