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    The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker
    The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker
    The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker
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    The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker

    By Robert Mankoff

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    Each week about fifty New Yorker cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred cartoons for no more than twenty spots in the magazine. Arguably the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in the world create a bunch of cartoons every week that never see the light of day.

    These rejects were piling up in the dusty corners of studios all over the country. Sam Gross, who has been contributing since 1962, has more than 12,000 rejected cartoons. (Seriously. He's been numbering every single cartoon he's ever submitted to The New Yorker since the very beginning.) Enter editor Matthew Diffee. He tapped his fellow cartoonists, asking them to rescue these hilarious lost gems. From the artists' stacks of all-time favorite rejects, Diffee handpicked the standouts -- the cream of the crap -- and created The Rejection Collection, a place where good ideas go when they die. Too risqué, silly, or weird for The New Yorker, the cartoons in this book offer something no other collection has: They have never been seen in print until now.

    With a foreword by New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff that explains the sound judgment, respectability, and scruples not found anywhere in these pages, and handwritten questionnaires that introduce the quirky character of each artist, The Rejection Collection will appeal to fans of The New Yorker...and to anyone with a slightly sick sense of humor.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGallery Books
    Release dateMay 11, 2010
    ISBN9781416938712
    The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker
    Author

    Robert Mankoff

    The New Yorker is an award-winning weekly magazine featuring reporting, criticism, commentary, fiction, poetry, and renowned single-panel cartoons. It has won more National Magazine Awards, the magazine world's equivalent of the Oscars, than any other magazine. Its contributors have won numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. Robert Mankoff is the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, and a cartoonist in his own right. He is the editor of many collections of New Yorker cartoons, including The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker. Online: www.newyorker.com

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    • 2/5
      Too clever by half.
    • 4/5
      A collection of cartoons that were pulled out of the reject pile of the New Yorker. Some of these it's easy to see why they never saw publications; others, well not so much. Often clever, almost always snarky, occasionally incomprehensible, just like the cartoons that DO see publication. Included questionnaires filled out by the cartoonists, where they demonstrated a lack of reverence even for their own work (a good trait that anyone should be able to emulate) and no deference to the whims of society. Fun, easy to read, a couple of nights right before bed, and you're done.
    • 5/5
      Great cartoons that really had me laughing. I simply don't know what the New Yorker was thinking. The only problem was that it was too short so I read it too quickly.
    • 4/5
      A collection of cartoons that were pulled out of the reject pile of the New Yorker. Some of these it's easy to see why they never saw publications; others, well not so much. Often clever, almost always snarky, occasionally incomprehensible, just like the cartoons that DO see publication. Included questionnaires filled out by the cartoonists, where they demonstrated a lack of reverence even for their own work (a good trait that anyone should be able to emulate) and no deference to the whims of society. Fun, easy to read, a couple of nights right before bed, and you're done.
    • 2/5
      What I liked best about this book was the questionnaire that each cartoonist filled out. There were a few funny ones but really, most of the cartoons just weren't that good. I won't be keeping this or its sequel.
    • 4/5
      My sense of humor is actually not particularly twisted, so these had about as much of a hit/miss rate as the accepted versions. But that's still a pretty high hit rate. As a subscriber, I actually enjoyed the cartoonist profiles just as much as the cartoons. Funniest : "34-C?"
    • 4/5
      Definitely funny! And while admittedly edgier than The New Yorker (language, bodily functions, gore), not offensive. Even better were the accompanying photos of featured cartoonists and their clever responses to a (probably intentionally lame) questionnaire.
    • 5/5
      The "interviews" with the cartonnists were funnier than most of their cartoons--which weren't bad, just a little twisted.
    • 3/5
      Some really funny and edgy cartoons. Not super-alternative but a little dirtier than you'd generally see in the magazine. Fun stuff if you like The New Yorker.
    • 4/5
      A unique and entertaining idea for a book. At first I thought the rejected cartoons would be bizarre or curiously un-funny; the true angle isn't clear until you read the editor's comments. A contributor himself, he gave a variety of other NYorker cartoonists a quirky questionnaire and asked them to select their favorite rejected cartoons. They are, simply, hilarious. You quickly get the sense that the New Yorker rejects the scatalogical, gay humor, and naturally anything too gory or too controversial. But hey, those are some really funny subjects, much of the time.The questionnaire got a little old (the first few were quite entertaining.) It gave the book a bit of a slipshod, last-minute feel, as though it was an eleventh-hour junior high school project. Perhaps that's why my 14-year-old is enjoying it so much.

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    The Rejection Collection - Robert Mankoff

    THE REJECTION COLLECTION

    THE REJECTION COLLECTION

    Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker

    EDITED BY MATTHEW DIFFEE

    FOREWORD BY ROBERT MANKOFF

    SIMON SPOTLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT

    New York London Toronto Sydney

    This book comes straight from the cartoonists themselves and is not authorized or sponsored by The New Yorker. So what we’re saying is, none of what you’re about to see is their fault.

    SIMON SPOTLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT

    An imprint of Simon & Schuster

    1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020

    www.SimonandSchuster.com

    Copyright © 2006 by Matthew Diffee

    All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

    SIMON SPOTLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT and related logo are trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

    Designed by Michael Nagin

    Manufactured in the United States of America

    First Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    The rejection collection : cartoons you never saw, and never will see, in The New Yorker / edited by Matthew Diffee ; foreword by Robert Mankoff.

    p.  cm.

    ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-3339-7

    ISBN-10: 1-4169-3339-5

    eISBN-13: 978-1-416-93871-2

    [1. American wit and humor, Pictorial. 2. New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)]

    I. Diffee, Matthew. II. New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)

    NC1428.N47 2006a

    741.5′6973—dc22

    2006019877

    Pages 263 and 264 constitute an extension of this copyright page.

    CONTENTS

    Foreword by Robert Mankoff

    Introduction by Matthew Diffee

    Leo Cullum

    Pat Byrnes

    Sam Gross

    Mike Twohy

    C. Covert Darbyshire

    Drew Dernavich

    Christopher Weyant

    Kim Warp

    William Haefeli

    John O’Brien

    Marisa Acocella Marchetto

    Danny Shanahan

    Tom Cheney

    Mick Stevens

    Mort Gerberg

    Michael Crawford

    P.C. Vey

    Barbara Smaller

    Arnie Levin

    Gahan Wilson

    Glen Le Lievre

    Alex Gregory

    J.C. Duffy

    Carolita Johnson

    Ariel Molvig

    Michael Shaw

    Eric Lewis

    P.S. Mueller

    David Sipress

    Jack Ziegler

    Afterword

    Acknowledgments

    About the Contributors

    FOREWORD

    BY ROBERT MANKOFF

    If memory—or, more accurately, Google—serves me correctly, it was Keats who proclaimed: Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Well, let me tell ye, Keats was dead wrong. Certainly, he’s dead; we can agree on that. But my main point is that if you want to know what makes something funny, it’s not beauty. Look, the Mona Lisa is beautiful, but until Marcel Duchamp put a mustache and goatee on her, she was no fun at all. Funny isn’t about beauty—it’s about freedom. Sometimes that freedom leads to disrespect, ridicule, and outright offensiveness. To see the truth of that, you don’t have to look any further than this collection of cartoons that happily exploit all that is vile for the sake of a smile.

    Furthermore, if you’re like me, many of the offensive, obscene, disgusting cartoons here will actually make you laugh out loud—and, in some cases, cause incontinence, nausea, and fainting. So before looking at these cartoons, ask your doctor if incontinence, nausea, and fainting are right for you.

    This collection is yet more proof that bad

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