Each week, The New Yorker receives more than five hundred submissions from its regular cartoonists, who are all vying for one of the twenty coveted spots in the magazine. So what happens to the 75 percent of cartoons that don't make the cut? Some go back in a drawer, others go up on the refrigerator or into a filing cabinet-and the very best of the rejects end up in this book.
From the lowbrow and dirty to the politically incorrect and the weird, these (absolutely hilarious) casualties of the editing process represent the absolute best of those unfit for print in the pages of The New Yorker. Handpicked by Matthew Diffee, the cartoons are sorted by author (Roz Chast, David Sipress, Leo Cullum, Mort Gerberg, Jack Ziegler, Sam Gross-the gang's all here), and introduced by brief and enlightening cartoonist Q&A, providing a rare glimpse into the mind and warped worldview of the artist!
This book includes 10 never-before-published "pre-emptively rejected" cartoons based on ideas pitched by friends, strangers, and colleagues of the cartoonists; a revised foreword by Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor at The New Yorker, and plenty of behind-the-scenes extras.
