The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker, 2003
 by Robert Mankoff, David Remnick

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Cartoons

The New Yorker's cartoons have a reputation for being slightly surreal and often inscrutable. One popular stereotype is that the cartoons have punchlines so non sequitur that they are impossible to understand. However, the cartoons remain popular, indicating that a substantial constituency of readers finds them funny. In addition, certain contemporary New Yorker cartoonists such as Roz Chast break this mold, using humor that almost any reader would find accessible.

The New Yorker's stable of current and former cartoonists includes many important names in American humour, including Charles Addams, Saul Steinberg, James Thurber, Charles Barsotti, Lee Lorenz, the aforementioned Roz Chast, Gahan Wilson, Robert Mankoff, P. S. Mueller, and George Booth, among many others.

The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry, and fiction. Formerly weekly, the magazine is now published weekly forty times per year with an additional six (usually more expansive) issues covering two week spans.

Although its reviews and events listings focus on the cultural life of New York City, The New Yorker has a wide audience outside of New York thanks to the quality of its writing and journalism. The magazine's cosmopolitan, urbane character is epitomized by the "Talk of the Town" section, which offers brief, breezy commentaries on New York life, popular culture, and eccentric Americana, though this section, in recent years, has increasingly shifted to political commentary. Its short humorous sketches, famous cartoons, and short stories have brought each of these literary forms to a higher level of literary esteem in the United States.

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