For instance, I did a cartoon in the 80s that has a man on a desert island thinking, “No man is an island, but I come pretty damn close.” And he’s tiny, and the island is tiny.

The desert island cartoon is one of those clichés we'd never thought to analyze too deeply until we read a smart cartoonist doing so, and now we're fascinated.

The desert island featured in hundreds of New Yorker cartoons actually exists. You can see it in Eastchester Bay, about forty yards from City Island, in the Bronx.

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We're coming down to crunch time in the GOP runoff election between Luther Strange and Roy Moore. So let's put 'em both on a desert island and have a caption contest.

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The desert-island cartoon, for example, made its first appearance in 1931: "I claim this island for the U.S.A. and the Alfred R. Whipple Real Estate Company of Muscatine, Iowa." ...