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Vol. I · No. 24 · The Weekly Issue · From Key West to the Panhandle

Reporting, fiction, criticism, poetry, and cartoons — from the peninsula

Cartoons

The Cartoon Desk

Every week, a handful of drawings selected from the several hundred that arrive by post and by wire.

Two neighbors on a Florida driveway watch a phalanx of golf carts crest the cul-de-sac. — "I told you the HOA would eventually get around to us."

A crowded Cuban diner counter at midnight; a bewildered patron gestures at a plate the size of a hubcap. — "I'll have what he's having. Twice, and with extra plantains."

Two tourists squint at a very small painting on a very large Sarasota museum wall. — "It's smaller in person, but so is everything worth seeing in this state."

A therapist and a distressed server rack on a low couch; a potted palm tilts sympathetically. — "And how does the afternoon cloudburst make you feel?"

A novelist introduces a small, unbothered cat to a room full of literary agents in a Coral Gables bookstore. — "She's my co-author now — and she was a stray under the porch."

Caption Contest № 918

What's the funniest thing this cartoon could be saying?

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