![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. One can almost hear Eustace Tilley sniffing, We are not amused. There’s no question why these were rejected, and it’s not for lack of laughs. Every week The New Yorker receives 500 cartoon submissions, and rejects a great majority-mostly, of course, for not being funny enough. Matthew Diffee has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 1999, and to date has had more than TK cartoons published in the magazine (and over.Lots of couples in bed, quite a few coffins, wise-cracking animals-an obsessive’s plumbing of the weird, the scary, the off-the-wall, and done so without restraint. Bring your daughter to work day cartoons (the stripper, the prison guard on death row). ![]() ![]() The Rejection Collection brings together some of The New Yorker’s brightest talents-Roz Chast, Gahan Wilson, Sam Gross, Jack Zeigler, David Sipress, and more-and reveals their other side. It’s the best of the worst: 293 of the funniest cartoons rejected by The New Yorker but luckily for us, now in paperback and available to enjoy. ![]()
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