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  • Non-fiction
  • 2022
  • Revised second edition.

The best of the rejection collection

297 cartoons that were too dark, too weird, or too dirty for The New Yorker

Emma Allan, Matthew Diffee

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The best of the worst: these cartoons rejected by The New Yorker were deemed too dumb, too weird, or too naughty--but not for lack of laughs! Every week, hundreds and hundreds of cartoons pour into The New Yorker. Most are rejected. Doesn't matter how big a deal the cartoonist is, either. Roz Chast, David Sipress, Kim Warp, Sam Gross, Ed Steed, Emily Flake, Navied Mahdavian, or Mary Lawton--if the work in question is too weird, too naughty, too juvenile, or too dark, it's out. Luckily for us, Matthew Diffee has been bravely sifting through the circular file to rescue the best of the worst. Here are 297 cartoons in a revised second edition featuring more than 50 new cartoons--even better, even worse! The cartoon set-ups may be familiar--a couple in bed, a few people stranded on a desert island, a doctor and patient in an examining room--but the joke are anything but, with twists so unexpected, you can't help but laugh out loud.

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Title Statement The best of the rejection collection: 297 cartoons that were too dark, too weird, or too dirty for The New Yorker / rescued by Matthew Diffee ; foreword by Emma Allan.
Alternative Title(s) Rejection collection
Additional Contributors Allan, Emma
Diffee, Matthew
Publication New York: Workman Publishing,2022.
Edition Revised second edition.
Extent of Item viii, 373 pages
ISBN 9781523512393 (paperback)
Other Number pr06492968
General Notes "Revised second edition. Even better! Even worse!."
Contents Foreword /by Emma Allen --10 possible reasons why cartoons get rejected by The New Yorker --The rejects: Robert Leighton ;Jack Ziegler ;Roz Chast ;David Sipress ;Felipe Galindo ;Harry Bliss ;Leo Cullum ;Sara Lautman ;Mary Lawton ;Gahan Wilson ;P.C. Vey ;Jason Patterson ;Navied Mahdavian ;Carolita Johnson ;Michael Shaw ;Alex Gregory ;Teresa Burns Parkhurst ;Robert Weber ;Pat Byrnes ;Barbara Smaller ;Rich Sparks ;Drew Dernavich ;Mort Gerberg ;Julia Suits ;Jon Adams ;C. Covert Darbyshire ;Marshall Hopkins ;John O'Brien ;Zachary Kanin ;Emily Flake ;Juan Astasio Soriano ;J.B. Handelsman ;Michael Crawford ;Marisa Acocella Marchetto ;William Haefeli ;Nick Downes ;Ellis Rosen ;Ariel Molvig ;Arnie Levin ;Kim Warp ;Eric Lewis ;Maddie Dai ;Sidney Harris ;J.C. Duffy ;Mike Twohy ;Glen Le Lievre ;Mick Stevens ;Ed Steed ;P.S. Mueller ;Tom Cheney ;Paul Noth ;Lars Kenseth ;Sam Gross ;Christopher Weyant.
Summary The best of the worst: these cartoons rejected by The New Yorker were deemed too dumb, too weird, or too naughty--but not for lack of laughs! Every week, hundreds and hundreds of cartoons pour into The New Yorker. Most are rejected. Doesn't matter how big a deal the cartoonist is, either. Roz Chast, David Sipress, Kim Warp, Sam Gross, Ed Steed, Emily Flake, Navied Mahdavian, or Mary Lawton--if the work in question is too weird, too naughty, too juvenile, or too dark, it's out. Luckily for us, Matthew Diffee has been bravely sifting through the circular file to rescue the best of the worst. Here are 297 cartoons in a revised second edition featuring more than 50 new cartoons--even better, even worse! The cartoon set-ups may be familiar--a couple in bed, a few people stranded on a desert island, a doctor and patient in an examining room--but the joke are anything but, with twists so unexpected, you can't help but laugh out loud.
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By Topic American wit and humor, Pictorial
By Title New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
By Genre Comics (Graphic works)
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