The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker

Diffee, Matthew [Editor]; Mankoff, Robert [Foreword];

ISBN 10: 1416933395 / ISBN 13: 9781416933397

Published by Simon & Schuster; NY, 2006

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Quarto, 10 1/4" tall, 262 pages with intertextual black and white illustration throughout, blue boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear, binding tight, paper white, but fore-corners bumped. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present. Because of the larger size and weight, this volume will require some additional postage. Seller Inventory # 63869

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never...

Publisher: Simon & Schuster; NY

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: First Edition, first printing.

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Synopsis:

Each week about fifty New Yorker cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred cartoons for no more than twenty spots in the magazine. Arguably the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in the world create a bunch of cartoons every week that never see the light of day.

These rejects were piling up in the dusty corners of studios all over the country. Sam Gross, who has been contributing since 1962, has more than 12,000 rejected cartoons. (Seriously. He's been numbering every single cartoon he's ever submitted to The New Yorker since the very beginning.) Enter editor Matthew Diffee. He tapped his fellow cartoonists, asking them to rescue these hilarious lost gems. From the artists' stacks of all-time favorite rejects, Diffee handpicked the standouts -- the cream of the crap -- and created The Rejection Collection, a place where good ideas go when they die. Too risqué, silly, or weird for The New Yorker, the cartoons in this book offer something no other collection has: They have never been seen in print until now.

With a foreword by New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff that explains the sound judgment, respectability, and scruples not found anywhere in these pages, and handwritten questionnaires that introduce the quirky character of each artist, The Rejection Collection will appeal to fans of The New Yorker...and to anyone with a slightly sick sense of humor.

About the Authors:

Matthew Diffee has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 1999, and he edited the bestselling volumes of The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker. Diffee was honored by the National Cartoonists Society with the Reuben Award for Best Gag Cartoonist of the Year in 2014. Originally form Texas, Diffee now lives in Los Angeles but in a good way.

Robert Mankoff is the cartoon editor of The New Yorker and a cartoonist in his own right. He is the editor of many collections of New Yorker Cartoons.