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Captions are usually concise, to 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. A well-known 1928 cartoon in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', drawn by [[Carl Rose (cartoonist)|Carl Rose]] and captioned by [[E. B. White]], shows a mother trying to convince her young daughter to finish her meal. "It's broccoli, dear." "[[I say it's spinach]] and I say the hell with it."

In the mid-1950s, gag cartoonists found a new market with the introduction of highly popular [[studio cards]] in college bookstores. Single-panel cartoons have been published on various products, such as coffee mugs and cocktail napkins.