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More than a book, this is a bona fide publishing event. The largest-ever collection of New Yorker cartoons features the best of every decade in book form, plus two easy-to-browse CDs--Windows and Macintosh compatible--with every cartoon ever published in the magazine--more than 68,000 of them! Since its founding in the 1920s, The New Yorker has had a profound cultural impact on the country and the world, and has almost singlehandedly elevated the cartoon to an art form. For the first time ever, EVERY cartoon ever published in The New Yorker is collected in one place. Accompanying the cartoons in the book, several thousand of them organized chronologically, are essays by eminent New Yorker writers reflecting on the life and times (and sense of humor) of each successive decade. Additionally, each decade includes profiles and mini-portfolios of the cartoonists who made their marks on the era, from Peter Arno and Charles Addams to Bruce Eric Kaplan and Roz Chast. "Theme" features cover such subjects as Drinking, The Depression, and Politics. The two accompanying CDs feature every cartoon ever published in the magazine in a format that is accessible on any home computer and is browsable by date, cartoonist, subject, and more.
This groundbreaking book, several years in the making, has been lovingly compiled by current New Yorker cartoon editor (and respected cartoonist and author) Robert Mankoff, and the foreword is by David Remnick, the magazine's esteemed editor.
Pound for pound, The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker may be the season's funniest book -- and that's saying something.
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Chris Bishop
reviewed The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker on April 29, 2020 The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker
The enormous heavy volume comes with two discs with all the cartoons: the book only has a couple thousand. I don't have a computer that can read discs anymore.
Fun fact: I could reasonably put this on nearly every shelf. There isn't a reference to Massachusetts, and some other specific states, cities, and countries, but that is about it.
This also raises the interesting question of categories. If I were shelving it in my personal collection, it would end up wherever I could fit it in, which would probably not be on the cartoon shelf. Arguably it is literature and should be shelved as an anthology under New Yorker. Ideally one would have a slanted book stand, lectern sort of thing where it could be left open all the time, perhaps to a different page each day. My local has it in graphic novels and cartoons which makes sense, too. This is where cross-referencing is so handy, or the bottom up and top down taxonomy of An Archive of Our Own.
And that pretty much sums me up: "my local" is the nearby library, not pub, and I have more to say about shelving than the content.
Glad I read it, really sorry I can't read the discs. Because how much fun to get a random choice every time one wakes a computer. Some 68 thousand cartoons.
Library copy
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