Skip to content

Posts authored by Jenner

Jenner has been an Australian newspaper and magazine cartoonist for over twenty years, drawing professionally and non-professionally in both the Australian and US scene in the small amount of time outside his duties as a full-time doctor. He is currently working in a city general practice, and has adopted the anonymous pen name Jenner as an ethical courtesy. Although a daily strip on the Internet is four years old, his Doc Rat character has been appearing in medical and non-medical magazines for over a decade, including Bush Alert, vicdoc and the Medical Journal of Australia. Jenner currently editorial cartoonist for Australian Doctor Weekly.

New Caption Competition Jul/Sep 2017

New Caption Competition Jul/Sep 2017 published on
Hi all you happy Doc Rat readers. Here’s the next Caption Competition challenge for you. It’s the serving staff for Hasty Taste deep-fried lardburgers. Now, use your imagination and come up with something funny to complete the cartoon. The competition winners have usually been those whose caption adds more to the joke than
Jul/Sep 2017
Caption competition CC-75
just a recap of the picture. Pertinent, off-the-wall or sometimes just surreal in a perfectly-focused way. So go ahead – try your luck. You could be the next person to find some free, original Doc Rat artwork winging its way to your home. 

 

Click on the picture to be taken to the competition page. Then send me the funniest caption you can think of, and if yours makes me laugh the most, you’ll win the actual picture itself. Get to it.

Some people have had trouble getting the caption entry machine to work. If that happens, please just e-mail to me on :jenner email address

Here are the three strips from the Doc Rat story showcasing our smiling Tasmanian devil who sells these dubious burgers from the hospital’s fast-food servery. You personally may or may not think that such an outlet has a place in a hospital, but that sort of thing does happen. (Legal disclaimer: This is a general fast food parody and is not meant to comment on the attributes of any particular company or products.)

20121105
Happy fatty salty Hasty Taste
20121106
Happy kiddie ad for Hasty Taste
20121107
Junk integrity with Hasty Taste

And we have a new winner, from May/Jun 2017

May/Jun 2017
Alun Rundle caption competition winner CC-74

Alun Rundle, Newport, South Wales, UK

You came up with the perfect motivational message for all people with asthma. 
How can someone look at this and not smile. Isn’t Jarrad delightful?
The prize will be on its way to you soon.
Click on the picture to see this joke and all the honourable mentions.
And enter the current contest. You too could be a winner. 
May/Jun 2017

May/Jun 2017 Caption Competition

May/Jun 2017 Caption Competition published on
The winning entry is Alun Rundle, Newport, South Wales, UK
 
SPECIAL MENTIONS
 
“Inhaler.  Outhaler. Inhaler. Outhaler. Inhaler. Outhaler.”
– M Henry, Reidsville, North Carolina, USA
 
“Handy for Formoterol as well as Formicidae!”  Too esoteric maybe?
– Dave Neil
(Esoteric? No, it’s Jarrad. –Jenner)
 
“Well, it was cheaper than a Fitbit”
– Rob Falconer, Llandough, Penarth, Wales, UK
 
“But, for a really long marathon, I find I need nitrous oxide”
– Valerie Falconer, Llandough, Penarth, Wales, UK
 
“It’s termite flavored too!”
– Jeffrey Angus, Ranger, Texas. USA
 
“Fe vampire if capfing up! Quick, fe garlic fpray!”
– Christian Hennecke
 
“My inhaler takes a lick’n and I keep on tick’n!”
– Jon Wilson, Lafayette, California, USA
 
“When I get short of breath, I just take another and keep going!”
– Yvonne “Catbunny” Pawtowski, Lynwood, Washington
 
“And then I squeeze the button with my ‘tongue-depressor’!”
– Nathan House, Kingston, Tasmania, Australia
 
“Hold on, puff puff, I’m getting my second wind!”
– Bruce Denhard, New Hampshire, USA
 
 
“I call it cloud-saucing!”
– Jenner

 

Primary Sidebar