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The Rejection Collection : Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker by Matthew Diffee, Robert Mankoff is a humor available to read on EtoBox.

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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 anywhe

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Author
Matthew Diffee, Robert Mankoff
Publisher
Gallery Books
Published
2006
Language
EN
ISBN
9781416933397
Category
humor
Subjects
Technology, Fiction, Humour
Rating
3.92 / 5 (430 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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