Maybe you even figure you're a source of enough hilarity that you should be writing Simpsons comics or otherwise profiting from it financially.

Well, here's a way to test yourself -- at least, if you can find a bunch of friends to challenge your self-image. I found it at a 50% off sale at a Barnes & Noble store last week and was captivated by the concept. It's called The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Game, and the idea is that players are shown a card with a New Yorker cartoon -- minus the caption. The challenge is to compete with your friends in coming up with the funniest caption. Here's a sample card (chosen with attention to my audience here):

The Mort Gerberg cartoon -- with caption -- appeared in the magazine. But checking would be cheating, so give it a try yourself.

There's more on the game on the Loaded Questions website.

Oh, and in the game itself, there's a flyer for a terrific website actually devoted to New Yorker cartoons. I interviewed some nice guy about this website years ago but I don't think I ever managed to fight off the deadline demons long enough to do a finished article. Basically, all the New Yorker cartoons ever published are available as cartoon prints, matted for $125 or framed and matted for $195. And there are other cartoon purchases available -- such as your favorite New Yorker cartoon on a custom T-shirt or sweatshirt for $24.95. (By the way, the guy told me years ago that many New Yorker originals are also for sale -- but, naturally, they're not inexpensive. Just letting you know.)

Sequential art is more than comic books.