"THE COMPLETE CARTOONS OF THE NEW YORKER" INCLUDES 2 CDsÂ
Condition: Excellent, Complete dustjacket
Cartoons have been an essential feature of The New Yorker since the magazine's founding, in 1925, lovingly devoured by readers, clipped, collected, shared, and remembered. Viewed together as they can be here, for the first time ever they form a comic chronicle of our life and times, eight decades of vibrant, concise, and up-to-the-moment commentary on subjects ranging from the mundane to the magnificent.
This collection, organized by decade and introduced by some of the magazine's most distinguished writers, showcases the work of the hundreds of talented artists who have contributed to the magazine during its eighty-year history. From the early cartoon of Peter Amo, George Price, and Charles Addams to the cutting edge work of Alex Gregory, Matthew Diffee, and Bruce Eric Kaplan (with stops along the way for the genius of Charles Barsotti, Roz Chast, Jack Ziegler, George Booth, and many, many others), the art collected here forms, as David Remnick puts it in his Foreword, "the longest-running popular comic genre in American life."
In the process of selecting cartoons for this book, Robert Mankoff discovered that various themes emerged in each decade. It may seem surprising that nudity was a popular subject in the nineteen-forties, but less surprising, perhaps, that the exploration of outer space stimulated the funny bones of cartoonists in the sixties, or that there was a strong focus on technology in the nineties. Throughout the book, brief overviews of each era's predominant themes highlight genres of cartoons and shed light on our pastimes and preoccupations. There are also brief profiles and mini-portfolios of key cartoonists, one featured for each era. The first decade, 1925-35, includes a biographical sketch of Peter Arno; 1955-64 showcases William Steig; 1985-94 spotlights the work of Roz Chast.
The CDs included with the book are what really make the "Complete Cartoons" complete and contain a mind-boggling 68,647 cartoons, and are indexed in a variety of ways. Perhaps you want to find all the cartoons by your favorite artist. Or maybe you'd like to look up the cartoons that ran the week you were born. You can even select all the cartoons on a particular subject (anything from "art" to "zoology"). And you can always begin at the beginning, February 21, 1925, and experience the unprecedented pleasure of reading through every single cartoon ever published in The New Yorker. The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker is a one-of-a-kind portrait of American life over the past eighty years, as captured by the talented pens and singular outlooks of the masters of the cartoonist's art.
