His pictures are one-liners, some even calling for cartoon captions, but they can bite.

Gag cartoons of the 1930s and earlier occasionally had lengthy captions, sometimes featuring dialogue between two characters depicted in the drawing; over time, cartoon captions became shorter.

This means that while the jokes almost always go over, they can feel like cartoon captions instead of involuntary hiccups of personality.

He joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine at the insistence of James Thurber and worked there from 1944 to 1987, writing stories and touching up cartoon captions.

It was based on a selection of Thurber's stories and cartoon captions.

We checked cartoon captions.

My assignment was to write ads for a real estate client, cartoon captions for a trucking company series and ads congratulating insurance agents for selling their quotas in premiums.

In fact, a cartoon caption suggested, Egypt might now be playing host to the emissary of the "Israeli United States of America."

New Yorker 8 Dec. 1928 (cartoon caption) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

The penetration of a new phrase is sometimes measured in cartoon captions, especially in The New Yorker.