Two years ago, Roger Ebert wrote on his Chicago Sun-Times blog: I have entered the New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest almost weekly virtually since it began and have never even been a finalist.

Space Ranger Roger is a 3D animated series aimed at pre-school children, with the theme of helping other people at its heart. Roger is a brave little alien sent to explore a strange, faraway world ...

When I found out late yesterday afternoon that Roger Ebert had passed away ... Because he hadn’t entered our most recent Cartoon Caption Contest, No. 375. Ebert won contest No. 281 with this ...

Perhaps one of his most famous roles was as Eddie Valiant, the toon-hating detective in Who Framed Roger Rabbit ... he actually was seeing the various cartoon characters that were in the scenes.