BEST OF THE REJECTION COLLECTION NEW YORKER CARTOONS
The Best of the Rejection Collection : 293 Cartoons That Were Too Dumb, Too Dark, or Too Naughty for the New Yorker
By: Mathew Diffee,
Publisher:Workman Publishing
Imprint:Workman Publishing
Format:Paperback
Pagination:320 pages, 293 black & white cartoons
Dimensions:229 x 184 mm, 771 grams
Country of Pub.:United States
Pub Date:01/11/2011
"The Rejection Collection" brings together some of "The New Yorker's" brightest talents - Roz Chast, Gahan Wilson, Sam Gross, Jack Zeigler, David Sipress, and more - and reveals their other side. Their dark side. Their juvenile side.
Their sick side. Their naughty side. Their outrageous side.
And what a treat. Ventriloquist dummy cartoons. Operating room cartoons.
Bring your daughter to work day cartoons (the stripper, the prison guard on death row). Lots of couples in bed, quite a few coffins, wise-cracking animals - an obsessive's plumbing of the weird, the scary, the off-the-wall, and done so without restraint. Every week "The New Yorker" receives 500 cartoon submissions, and rejects a great majority - mostly, of course, for not being funny enough.
There's no question why these were rejected, and it's not for lack of laughs. One can almost hear Eustace Tilley sniffing, We are not amused.
