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    The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap
    The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap
    The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap
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    The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap

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    Each week The New Yorker receives more than five hundred submissions from its regular cartoonists, who are all vying for one of the twenty coveted spots in the magazine. So what happens to the 75 percent of cartoons that don't make the cut? Some go back in a drawer, others go up on the refrigerator or into the filing cabinet...but the very best of all the rejects can be found right here in these pages.

    The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap is the ultimate scrap heap of creative misfires -- from the lowbrow and the dirty to the politically incorrect and the weird, these rejects represent the best of the worst...in the best possible sense of the word. Handpicked by editor Matthew Diffee, these hilarious cartoons are accompanied by handwritten questionnaires and photographed self-portraits, providing a rare glimpse into the minds of the artists behind the rejection.

    With appendices that explore the top ten reasons why cartoons are rejected and examine the solitary nature of the job of cartooning -- plus a special bonus section of questions asked of and answered by cartoon editor Robert Mankoff -- this sequel to The Rejection Collection offers even deeper insight into the exercise in frustration, patience, and amusement that is being a New Yorker cartoonist.

    Warped, wicked, and wildly funny, The Rejection Collection Vol. 2 will appeal to every New Yorker fan -- and everyone with a taste for the absurd.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGallery Books
    Release dateOct 30, 2007
    ISBN9781416951162
    The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap

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    Reviews for The Rejection Collection Vol. 2

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    • 1/5
      What am I missing? This book and the first book have exactly the same cartoons, as does the book by mankoff. So vol.1, vol.2 and volume mankoff are basically carbon copies. Wtf?
    • 2/5
      Same problem as Volume 1: just not that many funny cartoons. Again, the questionnaires by the cartoonists are the best part.

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    The Rejection Collection Vol. 2 - Gallery Books

    THE REJECTION COLLECTION VOL. 2

    This book is neither authorized nor sponsored by The New Yorker.

    SIMON SPOTLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT

    An imprint of Simon & Schuster

    1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York, 10020

    www.SimonandSchuster.com

    Copyright © 2007 by Matthew Diffee

    All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

    SIMON SPOTLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT and related logo are trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

    Designed by Michael Nagin and Jane Archer

    Manufactured in the United States of America

    First Edition  10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    The rejection collection vol. 2 : the cream of the crap / edited by Matthew Diffee.

    p. cm.—1st ed.

    ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-3401-1

    ISBN-10: 1-4169-3401-4

    eISBN: 978-1-416-95116-2

    [1. New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925). 2. American wit and humor, Pictorial.]

    I. Diffee, Matthew. II. New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925).

    NC1428.N47 R452 2007

    2007024872

    Pages 297 and 298 constitute an extension of this copyright page.

    CONTENTS

    Introduction

    Paul Noth

    Roz Chast

    J.C. Duffy

    Marshall Hopkins

    Alex Gregory

    Nick Downes

    Ariel Molvig

    Glen LeLievre

    Robert Leighton

    Mick Stevens

    Julia Suits

    David Sipress

    Zachary Kanin

    Eric Lewis

    Harry Bliss

    Mort Gerberg

    Jason Patterson

    C. Covert Darbyshire

    Michael Shaw

    Leo Cullum

    Carolita Johnson

    P.S. Mueller

    J.B. Handelsman

    Mike Twohy

    Sidney Harris

    John O’Brien

    Jack Ziegler

    Robert Weber

    Marisa Acocella Marchetto

    Pat Byrnes

    Michael Crawford

    Gahan Wilson

    P.C. Vey

    Christopher Weyant

    Kim Warp

    Drew Dernavich

    Danny Shanahan

    Sam Gross

    Appendix 1 : Cartoonists at Work

    Appendix 2: Rejection Reasons

    Appendix 3: Bob Answers the Tough Questions

    Acknowledgments

    INTRODUCTION

    So this is volume two of The Rejection Collection. Welcome to it.

    To appreciate the concept of this collection, I think it helps to know a little something about the submission process for cartoons at The New Yorker. It goes like this: Every week the forty or fifty regular cartoonists at the magazine come up with ten cartoons. On Tuesday we each bring our batch often ideas into the office or fax them in from afar, depending on where we live and how social we’re feeling. Bob Mankoff, our cartoon editor, looks them over and selects a stack to present to David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker. This happens on Wednesdays in the art meeting where an undisclosed process, which may or may not involve the use of darts, results in the selection of the fifteen to twenty gags the magazine will purchase that week.

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