The Editor's Log
The Joke's On You
We started The Joke's On You in January 2007. (The blog came later.)
In the feature, artist/humorist Tim Rickard draws the cartoon and readers provide the caption. It's not an original idea; other newspapers have a similar feature. Parade magazine went so far as to steal an idea from us. Well, seriously, I doubt it was stolen; it's just remarkably similar.
Anyway, the Evansville Courier-Press has debuted a feature with the exact same name. And to their credit, they credit us for the name. I only wish they had linked to us, too.
The title, "The Joke's On You," is shamelessly stolen from a newspaper in Greensboro, N.C., that does the same thing. We like the idea so much that we sought out a cartoonist to do it here.
I asked Tim his thoughts: "They stole the idea from us. We stole the idea from the New Yorker. That shows that we have much higher standards."
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