Captions are alwaysusually concise, to be fit on a single line. Gag cartoons of the 1930s and earlier occasionally had lengthy captions, sometimes featuring dialogue between two characters depicted in the drawing; over time, cartoon captions became shorter. For instance, aA well-known 1928 cartoon in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', drawn by [[Carl Rose]] and captioned by [[E. B. White]], shows a mother who describestrying to convince her young son, to finish his meal. "It's broccoli, dear." ThedaughterHis responds,response: "I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it."
