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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 – Jarrad and Quarrydog

New caption competition – Jarrad and Quarrydog published on

The caption competition for May/Jun 2016 has been judged, and the next contest for Jul/Aug 2016 has been posted. Have fun! 

If you find you can’t submit your entry using the competition form, then until we rectify that, simply go to the Contact page. Don’t forget to identify your name and home city.

The Doc Rat story arc was based on a real poster.
Smash Fascism poster. Carlton, Melbourne, 2016

Jarrad’s inadvertently revolutionary posters were based on one particular poster I saw a couple of months ago, in the university district of Carlton, here in Melbourne, I was intrigued by it. Although it implored me to Smash fascism, beyond that it was remarkably short on instructions. And I always find that pictures of adorable cats soften every message, so that made it doubly perplexing. I could imagine Jarrad wanting to spread joy and love, but messing it up in his own tangle-footed way. How far can this seven-year-old boy and his crew push the world to the brink of disaster in the name of peace?

Quarrydog, Medical student
Quarrydog, Medical student

And here’s a sketch of Quarrydog, dressed up as a medical student. Yes, of course he’s only thirteen – I’ll have to be drawing Doc Rat for many more years before he reaches university age in the story. But we can dream, can’t we?

May/Jun 2016 Caption Competition

May/Jun 2016 Caption Competition published on

The winning entry is Josh H. Knight of of Midland, Texas, USA

 SPECIAL MENTIONS:
“Higher… HIGHER!  Oh for God’s sake HIGHER!  It’s CHOCOLATE!”
 – Mea, Alabama, USA

“Best guide dog ever, thought Kermit”
 – Rob Falconer, Penarth, Wales

“This is the one for you – it’s marrow-bone jelly flavour”
 – Valerie Falconer, Penarth, Wales

“Colder … colder … ice cold …”
 – J. Bern

Frog: “I see something icy!”
Dog: “Say What?”
 – Timo Steffens, Germany

“No! Stop! Doc said to avoid carbs!”
 – Sandy Skeba, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

“It’s a trap! Eat it and you will appear in a Doc Rat caption competition strip.”
 – M Henry, Reidsville, North Carolina, USA

Now THAT’S something you don’t see every day!
 – Jenner

Mar/Apr 2016 Caption Competition

Mar/Apr 2016 Caption Competition published on

The winning entry is Lucius Appaloosius of Mystic, Connecticut, USA

 SPECIAL MENTIONS:
 
“But Dad, this is the third one that broke! Can’t we just get the Kevlar one, like Mum said?”
– Eleanor, Ballan, Victoria, Australia
 
 “Please fix my horse Doc.  We were just swimming alone when he ran out of steam!”
– Rebecca Swanston, Vancouver, Washington, USA
 
 “I thought this was supposed to be puncture proof.”
– J Rhine, USA
 
“Now I see why Sonic doesn’t like going near water!”
– Phil McCarty, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
 
“I was hoping to get a ‘swimming buddy’, but no one wants to come near me… I don’t know why!”
– Jed G. Martinez, Margate, Florida, USA
 
“So it’s not soft water, then?”
– Jenner

 

Nov-Feb 2016 Caption Competition winner

Nov-Feb 2016 Caption Competition winner published on

The winning entry is Josh H Knight, of Midland, Texas, USA

SPECIAL MENTIONS:

“Phil was impressed by the new trainees’ desire to work – not everyone volunteered to hold the flip calendar.” 
Alun Rundle, Newport, South Wales, UK
 
“The Doc’ gave me thith prethcripthion againtht my lithp, but I don’t think it’th working.”
Tiger T
 
“Can you calculate the total for me?  I’m a cobra, not an adder.”
Melkior, Victoria, Australia
 
“Well, the bill seems OK, but you know I’m a lousy adder”
Valerie Falconer, Penarth, Wales, UK
 
“I was told this is to detoxify my body. Is that safe??”
Max Goof, Dublin, Ohio, USA
 
“Prescription for Aricept … fangs for the memories…”
Tristan Black Wolf, Syracuse, New York, USA
 
“I wanted to pick up a few fang-you notes.”
John Reynolds, Concord, California, USA
 
“It’th right on the tip of my tongue…”
Michelle Gaudette, Medway, Massachusetts, USA
 
“Please tell me I’m immune to my own poison! I bit my tongue when I saw your bill!”
Phil McCarty
 
“I bit my tongue.”
Timmie, Winston, Salem, North Carolina, USA
 
“Our secretary’s real near-sighted, you see. So there I was by the stapler …”
Dave Neil, Idaho Falls, Idaho
 
“Ith to help control my lipth.”
Kim Squire, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
 
“It’s a layoff notice. Jenner is replacing the cartoon.”
M Henry, Reidsville, North Carolina, USA
 
“…for a course of  small-squealing-rodent replacement  patches.” 
Jenner

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