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. Each week about fifty 'New Yorker' cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred cartoons for no more than twenty spots in the magazine. With a foreword by New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff that explains the sound judgment, respectability & scruples not found anywhere in these pages, and handwritten questionnaires that introduce the quirky character of each artist, will appeal to fans of the New Yorker-and to anyone with a slightly sick sense of humor." Quite presentable & Highly Recommended. Too risque, silly or weird for the New Yorker, the cartoons in this book offer something no other collection has. The Rejection Collection, a place where good ideas go when they die. "Each week about 50 New Yorker cartoonists submit 10 ideas, yielding 500 cartoons for no more than 20 spots in the magazine. Pristine, clean & tight (unread) copy in AS NEW condition. “This collection,” Mankoff explains, “is yet more proof that bad taste and humor are not strange bedfellows but intimate partners whose down-and-dirty doings often delight us against our better judgment, our scruples, and our politically respectable attitudes.Hardcover. What makes this book so pleasurable is that the quips are raunchy but the drawings are in the recognizable styles of Roz Chast, David Sipress, Leo Cullum, Gahan Wilson, William Haefeli and more than three dozen other New Yorker contributors there’s also an amusing Q&A with each cartoonist. The rejected cartoons were “rescued” by New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee, who outlines 10 possible reasons editors turned up their noses, among them: too dumb, too dirty, too weird, too difficult to get - and, indeed, a few are impossible to understand.īut many are laugh-out-loud funny, combining the wit of the New Yorker with the gutter-view of Larry Flynt.
But “others at the magazine have better judgment, more scruples, and greater respectability than I do,” he writes in a forward to this uproarious volume. Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor at the New Yorker, insists that if it were left to him alone, some of the cartoons that wound up in “ The Best of the Rejection Collection” would have made it into the esteemed publication. ‘The Best of the Rejection Collection: 293 Cartoons That Were Too Dumb, Too Dark, or Too Naughty for The New Yorker’ edited by Matthew Diffee (WORKMAN)
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