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MARCH 19, 2021, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5
Caption It!
By STEVE BREEN
L AST WEEK’S
WINNER
CAPTION IT !
Email submissions along with your name and town to CaptionItCartoon@gmail.com
— OR — on Instagram, go to @caption_it_cartoon to comment/like.
Introducing Caption It!
creator Steve Breen
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Like most people who work in the
print news business, Pulitzer Prize-
winning editorial cartoonist Steve Breen
wanted to help find ways to attract and
keep readers.
About 10 years ago, Breen began
giving readers of The San Diego Union-
Tribune a weekly opportunity to caption
one of his drawings. The idea grew into
a regular, now syndicated, comic strip
titled Caption It!
“Young people are now getting humor
from creating, viewing and sharing
memes, GIFS, TikTok videos, etc.
I love traditional comic strips and
there are still some really excellent
ones. I just like Caption It! because
it gets people more involved. I wish
we could run 20 captions every week
instead of one,” Breen said.
Beginning this week, Caption
It!, becomes a weekly feature of the
Keizertimes. The cartoon and win-
ning caption from a previous week run
What I try to do
is tee up a good
piece of art so
that someone out
there can hit it out
of the park.
— STE E
EEN
Creator and artist, CAPTION IT!
alongside a new un-captioned image.
Breen got his start as an editorial
cartoonist in college, his work in that
field garnering him a pair of Pultizers as
911 Supply moving south
911 Supply is moving from its long-
time location at 4484 River Road N. to
the corner of Sunset Avenue North and
River Road North.
According to a Facebook post, the
move to the new building is expected
to be complete by mid-April. The new
address is 4101 River Road N.
911 Supply is a local, full-service shop
offering uniforms, custom tailoring,
he grew. He credits
his sense of humor,
and satire, though
with influences such
as Mad Magazine,
Saturday
Night
Live and SCTV. Pat
Oliphant, Paul Conrad
and Jeff MacNelly
were some of the
major influences com-
bining his humor with
cartooning.
When it comes to
serving up a Caption
It! image, there much
more going on than
simply putting an odd
image to the page.
“What I try to do
is tee up a good piece
of art so that someone
out there can hit it out
of the park. I try to think of a weird but
helpful set-up,” Breen said.
Choosing the winning caption is a
body armor, footwear, tactical gear,
outerwear, alterations, heat press and
embroidery.
whole other art itself but, here’s is a hint:
the best jokes take time.
“If I draw a clown eating a ham-
burger, I’m going to get a million Ronald
McDonald gags from people and most
of those captions will be bland and pre-
dictable. I’m looking for something that
comes out of left field,” he said. “I look
for originality, brevity and something
that makes me laugh out loud. Humor
works, most often, when something is
unexpected.”
He also encourages local teachers to
use Caption It! as an exercise in creativity.
“We have some fantastic San Diego-
area teachers who do the Union-Tribune’s
contest with their students every week
and some of our best submissions come
from this demographic. Try to come up
with ten captions and then bounce them
off your parents and siblings, then send
the three that get the biggest laughs. Oh,
and avoid Ronald McDonald gags,”
Entries can be sent to cartooncon-
test@sduniontribune.com by 10 a.m.
Tuesday of every week.
Watercolor classes at KAA
Keizer Art Association is offering online art classes. There are three
watercolor classes available on March 20, March 27 and April 3 from 10 a.m.
to 12 p.m. Each class is $20 each.
The class on March 20 will cover watercolor technique and color theory.
The next class will be practicing watercolor with the creation of landscapes
on paper. The last class focuses on how to start a bigger watercoloring proj-
ect and apply the methods of the previous classes to your work.
Information about the online classes, a material list and how to sign up is
available on their website:keizerarts.com/classes.php