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The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
by Robert Mankoff, editor
80 years of New Yorker cartoons in one hefty volume.
The New Yorker magazine has been enlightening, amusing and entertaining readers for eighty years. Perhaps the most items in the magazine are the cartoons sprinkled throughout its pages. Cartoons by such notables as Charles Addams, James Thurber, Peter Arno and William Steig are immediately recognizable to regular readers of the New Yorker. But many people who have never opened a copy of the magazine have seen New Yorker cartoons, as they are often reprinted to enliven college textbooks.
Throughout the years the magazine’s pages have been filled with wry comments about doctors, lawyers, psychologists, politicians, business people, men and women in and out of love, not to mention cats and a whole range of other topics. Such cartoon captions as, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” have found their way into popular culture. As such, New Yorker cartoons are not only funny; they are part of our social history. Many people will readily recall a favorite cartoon. Mine shows a young boy crying his eyes out in the middle of a department store. A man with a briefcase is bending down and says to him, “Do you need a lawyer, little boy?”
The Collected Cartoons of the New Yorker brings together all of the more than 68,000 cartoons that have appeared in its pages since the magazine first appeared in 1925. The book also includes essays which set the cartoons in context. Some of us who do not lift weights regularly may have difficulty maneuvering this mammoth sized volume. Have no fear. The publishers have included two CDs that have all the cartoons. It should be noted that the resolution on the CDs may not be to everyone’s liking. I also found searching the CDs a bit cumbersome.
This book is for New Yorker aficionados and for anyone who enjoys sophisticated humor.
Title: The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
Author: Robert Mankoff, editor
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 1579123228
Review written by: William Keogan
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