The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker
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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 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.
DESCRIPTION:
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.56973
EAN: 9781416933397
ISBN: 1416933395
Label: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2006-10-03
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Studio: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ACCESSORIES:
• The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Let the cartoons do the talking
Comment: The cartoons in this collection were all rejected by "The New Yorker," but not because they weren't "good" enough to be featured in that esteemed magazine. They were rejected for reasons of taste... they are all too "out there" or offensive for a mainstream publication, and I say this in a positive way. These are shocking, funny (and often, shockingly funny) cartoons, and it's great that they are finally seeing the light of day in this collection.
That being said, I have to subtract a couple stars from my overall rating because of the editor's choice to include way too much biographical material about the individual cartoonists. Not only is there brief information about each of the many cartoonists at the back of the book (which would have been fine), "The Rejection Collection" goes way overboard by including a full two-page spread before each brief set of cartoons which consists of an identical questionnaire completed by each cartoonist. Although some of their attempts to be clever in filling out the questionnaire are amusing, all of this biographical information actually takes much longer to read than the handful of cartoons that follow! As other reviewers have noted, this really breaks up the flow... just when you're laughing at a couple hilarious cartoons and looking forward to more, boom! You're looking at the same questionnaire for the umpteenth time.
No offense to the contributors, but why exactly did the editor think that the general reader would be fascinated by lengthy explorations of the backgrounds of so many random, obscure cartoonists? It would have been much better to have just included brief biographical info at the end of the book, and to have included many more cartoons instead. After all, the humor and warped attitudes expressed in the cartoons themselves give us the best window into their creators' minds. Truly, the editor of a cartoon collection should have understood that "a picture says a thousand words."
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Summary: The Rejection Collection
Comment: The Rejection Collection is a must for any book lover's collection. The concept of this book is particularly appealing - a glimpse into a cartoon artist's mind and into the standards of the New Yorker. By reading The Rejection Collection, you will have the rare opportunity to see into the childhood of each artist and discover the unusual, often brilliant, thinking process of the cartoonist. I guarantee that you will laugh out laud with each page. My husband and I regularly give this book as a gift - and always receive an exuberant thank you.
Customer Rating:
Summary: screamingly funny
Comment: I love NY'er cartoons. These aren't rejects--these were too outre, too funny, too rude, smart, outrageous, on point... Just be careful to read these on or near well-upholstered surfaces. You'll hurt yourself laughing so much collapsed on a hard wood floor.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Now I know why they got rejected
Comment: While the cartoons in this book are still New Yorker style, I found most of them not funny or to the point but besides the point - if there was any.
It became very obvious to me why these got rejected, and I strongly recommend to purchase one of the collections of cartoons that were not rejected.
Customer Rating:
Summary: fabulous
Comment: Truly funny and very creative.. and I loved the "questionnaires" filled out by each cartoonist. Looking forward to all future R.C's.
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