Let THE GAG RECAP recharge your creative funny-side and tickle your cartoon sense. This is the only national journal that gives you capsule summaries of cartoons published in maga-zines in North America.
Having Trouble Coming Up With Cartoon Gags???
Let THE GAG RECAP recharge your creative funny-side and tickle your cartoon sense. This is the only national journal that gives you capsule summaries of cartoons published in maga-zines in North America.
For the cartoonist or comedian who doesn’t use gag writers, reading THE GAG RECAP is like having the best writers on the continent working for you. You can have the ideas of North America’s funniest cartoonists at your fingertips
There’s no end to the number of salable ideas that a nimble mind can come up with merely by making legitimate switches on the gags found in THE GAG RECAP.
Most of the top names in the cartoon business are subscribers. They find THE GAG RECAP is a valuable tool for checking the originality of gags, addresses of magazines in the market for material, prices paid for cartoons and particular angles, slants and spins that different editors want for their specific magazines.
Editors use the publication to check the originality, quality and freshness of cartoons submitted to them.
Cartoonists use THE GAG RECAP to monitor pay-on-publication magazines that may need their memories jogged before sending money for cartoons they publish.
Gag writers use THE GAG RECAP to stir their creative juices with its constant stream of funny situations that can be twisted to make fresh, new, salable gags.
BARRON’S, Pamela Budz, 200 Liberty St., New York, NY 10281 ($375)
(Carpenter) Man lies in hospital bed. Doc tells nurse, "We can start easing off the medication. He’s post signs of litigation now."
(Vey) Family sits on sofa watching TV. Dad, with laptop on his lap, says, "Why don’t I Photoshop in the Grand Tetons this year?"
(Burns) Boy is breathing from a balloon. Shrink tells him, "You’ll see, once you’ve spoken about your problems in a helium voice, they won’t seem so bad anymore."
EBONY (All black characters). 820 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605 ($100)
(Winners) (C) IRS agent tells man, "I’m going to need you to stand up and empty your pockets."
(Ennels) (C) Boy on examining table tells doc with hypodermic needle, "I’d like a second opinion if you’re going to use that needle."
(Estes) (C) Teacher is taking a boy to the principal’s office. He says, "It’s time to pay the piper? I only have $2.14 . . . Will that be enough?"
FIRST Faye Rausch, cartoon editor, 270 Sylvan Ave., Englewood Cliffs, NY 07632-2523 ($75)
(Robinson) Santa is working at a computer. An elf tells an elf, "He just checks MySpace to find out who’s misbehaving."
(Bacall) One of two women having coffee in a kitchen says, "I should see a nutritionist. My idea of a healthy meal is to shake the powder off a doughnut."
(Shirvanian) A boy has removed logs from a fireplace and replaced them with a Welcome mat.
FUNNY TIMES, Saundra Hope, submissions editor, 2176 Lee Road, Cleveland, OH 44118-2908 ($25 plus free subscription)
(Hickerson) (C) (Back Cover) One of two kids eating sandwiches at a kitchen table asks mom, at counter, "Hey, Mom! Aren’t you glad God never cut the crust off the Earth?"
(Coverly) A man tells a woman, "Sixty is the new fifty . . . mostly because all the money we saved in the last decade is gone."
(Parisi) A sheet of plastic wrap with arms, legs and face, is in a bathroom popping its bubbles. Caption: When plastic wrap reaches puberty.
LEATHERNECK Col. Walter G. Ford, editor, Box 1775, Quantico, VA 22134 ($25)
(Chalk) Marine sergeant tells a shedding bulldog, "Listen up. Here’s the word. The colonel says it’s OK for you to shed and to scratch, but not at the same time. And, oh yeah, you have to stand still!"
(Talbot) A sentry standing in front of lines of USMC pup tents tells Santa, on a sleigh filled with toys, "If the Marine Corps wanted us to have them, they’d have issued them."
(Loeb) A Marine drill instructor tells recruits, "Fall in . . . in alphabetical order . . . according to height."
MEDICAL ECONOMICS, Roger Dowd, art director, 123 Tice Blvd., Suite 300, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677-7664 ($115)
(Glasbergen) Boss tells office worker, "For security purposes, we need you to think outside the box then forget we ever discussed the box and deny that the box ever existed."
(Argo) A doctor is trapped inside a computer screen. A nurse says, "Don’t panic, Dr. Renfro . . . Try to remember which buttons you pushed."
(Rossi) A doc and a male patient look at an X-ray. Doc says, "The good news is it’s not cancer. The bad news is it’s your testicles."
In THE GAG RECAP you benefit from the editor’s 40 years of experience as an editor, reporter, gag writer, perceptive observer of life, grand boulevardier and sophisticated bon vivant. Each issue is led off with the editor’s cogent comments in a pithy column aptly titled, "What Are You Nuts?" Some readers feel this by itself is worth the price of a subscription. The editor feels it’s more than worth it.
Each issue of THE GAG RECAP contains terse summaries of all the cartoons in over 50 publications in North America. We do the legwork so you can have the information you need at your fingertips. We publish names and addresses of editors, the money they pay and summaries of the cartoons they have published. This information is money in the bank for cartoonists and gag writers.
THE GAG RECAP’s Reader Mail page provides first-hand reports of cartoonists and gag writers about their experiences in the marketplace. Each month we publish letters from our readers, giving you an outlet to trumpet your triumphs, to bemoan your ill treatment by callous, addle-brained editors or to seek advice, which we provide gratuitously.
Consider what it would cost you in time and money to subscribe to all the publications we peruse each month. A subscription to THE GAG RECAP is $40 for six months, $70 for a full year or $110 for two years. However, if you sign up for the e-mail edition, the cost is just $35 for six months, only $65 for a full year or a mere $100 for two years. You can have a sample issue for $7.
To subscribe, simply click on the "Subscribe" button, print out the R.S.V.P. certificate, fill it out and send it with your check or money order in U.S. funds to THE GAG RECAP, P.O. Box 248, Chalfont, PA 18914. If you live outside the United States, please add $10 per year for foreign postage.
For a limited time only, if you sign up for a full year or more, we’ll give you a free copy of the CARTOONISTS AND GAG WRITERS DIRECTORY, a $25 value.
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