The Best of the Rejection Collection
297 Cartoons That Were Too Dark, Too Weird, or Too Dirty for The New Yorker
2nd Edition
Published on 24. May 2022
384 pages
978-1-5235-1778-7 (ISBN)
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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.
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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The Best of the Rejection Collection
297 Cartoons That Were Too Dark, Too Weird, or Too Dirty for The New Yorker
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05/2022
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Matthew Diffee has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 1999, and to date has had more than TK cartoons published in the magazine (and over TK rejected). He is the author of The Rejection Collection, The Rejection Collection, Vol. 2, and Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People and lives in Los Angeles, California.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication and Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by Emma Allen cartoon editor for The New Yorker
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright Information
