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Carregando... The Best of the Rejection Collection: 293 Cartoons That Were Too Dumb, Too… (edição: 2011)de Matthew Diffee
Detalhes da ObraThe Best of the Rejection Collection: 293 Cartoons That Were Too Dumb, Too Dark, or Too Naughty for The New Yorker de Matthew Diffee
   Books Read in 2013 (429) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  richardderus | May 9, 2020 |  Depending on what your threshold of enjoying bawdy, knee-jerk, occasionally dumb humor is, you’ll either love this volume or hate it. Personally, I’ve always enjoyed the off-center humor of the one-panel cartoons featured in The New Yorker magazine, and this collection of cast-offs that didn’t make the cut for that publication was hilarious. Editor Diffee sent a set of standard profile questions to dozens of the artists whose work most frequently shows up in The New Yorker. He then published their responses, along with a selection of each artist’s rejected cartoons. The responses to the profile questions, though invariably humorous, also got a bit tiresome and rather repetitive. However, the examples of rejected cartoons were terrific. Though the subtitle says “Too Dumb, Too Dark, or Too Naughty”, I’d estimate fully 50% of the cartoons here were rejected for sexual content. But, if you like the dry, somewhat urbane, and chuckle-inducing style of humor that that magazines specializes in, you won’t want to miss this collection! Originally reviewed for my local library's website in November 2013: http://lincolnlibraries.org/bookguide/staff-recommendations/staff-recommendation... (  ) cannellfan | Feb 27, 2016 | Hilariously entertaining........and weird......which is a perfect mix. ( ) ThothJ | Dec 4, 2015 | Hilariously entertaining........and weird......which is a perfect mix. ( ) ThothJ | Dec 4, 2015 | Hilariously entertaining........and weird......which is a perfect mix. ( ) ThothJ | Dec 3, 2015 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
It's the best of the worst: 293 of the funniest cartoons rejected by The New Yorker but luckily for us, now in paperback and available to enjoy. The Rejection Collection brings together some of The New Yorker's brightest talents--Roz Chast, Gahan Wilson, Sam Gross, Jack Zeigler, David Sipress, and more--and reveals their other side. Their dark side. Their juvenile side. Their sick side. Their naughty side. Their outrageous side. And what a treat. Ventriloquist dummy cartoons. Operating room cartoons. Bring your daughter to work day cartoons (the stripper, the prison guard on death row). Lots of couples in bed, quite a few coffins, wise-cracking animals--an obsessive's plumbing of the weird, the scary, the off-the-wall, and done so without restraint. Every week The New Yorker receives 500 cartoon submissions, and rejects a great majority--mostly, of course, for not being funny enough. There's no question why these were rejected, and it's not for lack of laughs. One can almost hear Eustace Tilley sniffing, We are not amused. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Why would The New Yorker think this Diffee toon was too weird to publish? Seems pretty hilarious to me....
The inimitable Roz Chast replied to Diffee's "Infrequently Asked Questions" feature:
What would make a really terrible pizza topping?
Stye ointment.
LOL
I mean, seriously! If this isn't The New Yorker's audience's jam, what is?!
This will offend some of you. I do not care. The New Yorker did, unsurprisingly...but Sipress had the last laugh, he still got them to publish it! Ha!
Harry Bliss's failed submission to The New Yorker made *me* laugh...so why not their subscribers? Hmm?
Well. Need one say more about Leo Cullum? It says a lot about The New Yorker that they *didn't* publish this one.
Mick Stevens...equal opportunity offender. Don't @ me.
There are hundreds more, the awfullest ones even *I* won't put up, but believe me when I tell you that this book cured my Murderbot hangover. You just can not stay mired in gloom when The New Yorker's funny folk are after your laugher. No, I didn't misspell laughter. English doesn't have a word for the thing inside you that makes you laugh. And NO, it's not your sense of humor! People laugh at funerals faGawdSake! (Although I've always found it telling that the word "fun" starts the whole thing off....)
Go forth and smile. (