The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
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Editor: Robert MankoffIntroduction: Adam Gopnik
Foreword: David Remnick
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-08
ISBN: 1579126200
Number of pages: 672
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Book Reviews of The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
Book Review: A Phenomenal Resource - at an Excellent Price; But a Couple of Problems...
Summary: 4 Stars
I've been quite a fan of cartooning for a number of years - from modern strips like the Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes to the classic cartoons of Esquire and the New Yorker, and of particular cartoonists (such as Peter Arno and, more recently, Charles Addams, of "The Addams Family" fame). I was searching one day for a book on New Yorker cartoons over the years, and was greatly pleased to have found this - "The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker" is as good as its title suggests (up to 2006, that is).
Here's what is included: a hefty volume of phone-book proportions (670 pages) in large format (suitable for a coffee table or a good, sturdy bookshelf), on good, glossy, quality paper. In this book are collected a massive "best of" selection of New Yorker cartoons from 1925 on through 2006; additionally included are comments and biographies (usually 2-page spreads) on artists (Arno and Addams among them) as well as certain themes that continually crop up in the cartoons - television, for instance, or the space race.
This, however, is only scratching the surface. Within the front cover, in a little transparent plastic sleeve is a DVD-ROM disc, which contains each and every one of the more than 70,000 cartoons published in the New Yorker up through 2006. The cartoons are set up in a PDF format (no worries - if you don't have Adobe Acrobat, the disc allows you to download it) for easy reading and access.
I have very few qualms about the book itself; I am, however, a little disappointed with the DVD-ROM. Essentially, it isn't as easy to search for the cartoons as you might hope. The disc is broken down into decades, and those decades are broken down into specific years. As far as I've been able to ascertain, you can only search for the cartoons of a particular artist within a certain year - you can't, for instance, just type in "Sid Hoff" and come up with all of his cartoons ever published in the New Yorker; you have to find a particular year and search for him within it. While this may seem like a quibble (I mean, really, they're giving you all of their cartoons - for less than $30!) it is rather disappointing, and makes it difficulty to pick and choose what you want. Also, while the PDF format allows you to enlarge the cartoons, you can't make them much larger than 100% without them beginning to get fuzzy.
Overall, anyone interested in comic art, American culture, or a good, educated laugh will appreciate this book and this disc; those who are not very tech-savvy, however, may want to think twice.
Summary of The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
The book that Janet Maslin of The New York Times has called "indispensable" and "a transfixing study of American mores and manners that happens to incorporate boundless laughs, too" is finally available in paperback?fully updated and featuring a brand new introduction by Adam Gopnik.Organized by decade, with commentary by some of the magazine's finest writers, this landmark collection showcases the work of the hundreds of talented artists who have contributed cartoons over the course ofThe New Yorker's eight-two-year history. From the early cartoons of Peter Arno, 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 others), the art collected here forms, as David Remnick puts it in his Foreword, "the longest-running popular comic genre in American life."
Throughout the book, brief overviews of each era's predominant themes?from the Depression and nudity to technology and the Internet, highlight various genres of cartoons and shed light on our pastimes and preoccupations. Brief profiles and mini-portfolios spotlight the work of key cartoonists, including Arno, Chast, Ziegler, and others.
The DVD-ROM included with the book is what really makes the "Complete Cartoons" complete. Compatible with most home computers and easily browsable, the disk contains a mind-boggling 70,363 cartoons, indexed in a variety of ways. Perhaps you'd like 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, or all of the cartoons on a particular subject. Of course, 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.
Enjoy this one-of-a-kind protrait of American life over the past eight decades, as captured by the talented pens and singular outlooks of the masters of the cartoonist's art.
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