The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker
What could be better than a gigantic 656-page collection of 2,004 (get it?) of the best cartoons published in theNew Yorkerover the last 80 years? Perhaps a double CD set with all 68,647 cartoons ever published in the magazine—complete with a nifty search function that allows readers to search for cartoons by year of publication or by cartoonist's name. This improbably large offering is a bonanza of wry Manhattan-centric comic commentary on urban life and much else in American culture over the years. There's Peter Arno's 1948 ink-and-wash cartoon of a mildly concerned matron, book in hand, asking her newspaper-reading husband, "Is there a Mrs. Kinsey?" Or Peter Steiner's now famous cartoon drawing of two dogs chatting in front of a computer. "On the Internet," says one canine to the other, "nobody knows you're a dog." The book offers an introduction byNew Yorkereditor David Remnick and short essays introducing each decade—which readers may want to read after perusing the cartoons first—by suchNew Yorkerluminaries as Roger Angell, Lillian Ross and John Updike. This is an absolutely fabulous collection of sophisticated silliness that will soon take its rightful place on coffee tables all over the country.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.