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Title: The New Yorker 75th Anniversary Cartoon Collection by Robert Mankoff, Bob Mankoff ISBN: 0-671-03555-X Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Curiously lacking in social context
Comment: Considering how literate and erudite the New Yorker tends to view itself, it's surprising that a collection of cartoons supposedly representing 75 years of social change are presented so randomly and without temporal identification.
The purpose of most cartoons is to make contemporary social commentary in a humorous, visual format. The trouble is, when those cartoons are reproduced years (or decades) later, the cultural situations or mores they originally poked fun at can be meaningless to present-day readers.
Early suburban life, the Organization Man of the 50s and 60s, big business, womens lib, the Me Generation of the 80s, etc., were all fertile fields for cartoonists of the time, but topical humor isn't always timeless and needs to be placed in some perspective if it's to be understood years later.
Most astute readers of this book will be able to place the cartoons in general time periods from clues in the subject matter or the drawing style, but printing the original date of publication in the margins would have allowed this material to be appreciated as timely social commentary and not just a haphazard collection of stand-alone jokes.
Rating: 5
Summary: Un libro para iniciarse en las viñetas de New Yorker
Comment: Este libro es muy adecuado para introducirse en el estupendo mundo de las viñetas del New Yorker. Me fue posible aquí descubrir un montón de autores esenciales para esa publicación y que son de una calidad excelente. Inteligencia y verdadero ingenio están muy extendidos en las páginas de este libro. Lo recomiendo vivamente.
Rating: 4
Summary: Classic Humor
Comment: While I would agree that The New Yorker cartoons in this book could have been better organized and that the introduction was inconsequential, there are many classic cartoons in this volume that are well worth the price of admission. In my collegiate youth, I lived for my weekly New Yorker, just to read the cartoons. I found many old friends in this book and was grateful to be reaquainted with them.
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Title: The New Yorker Book of Business Cartoons by Robert Mankoff, David Remnick ISBN: 1576600564 Publisher: Bloomberg Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons by Robert Mankoff, Bob Mankoff ISBN: 0671035576 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 29 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The New Yorker Book of Dog Cartoons by New Yorker Magazine, Carolyn B. Mitchell ISBN: 0679416803 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The New Yorker Book of Doctor Cartoons and Psychiatrist by New Yorker Magazine ISBN: 0679430695 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: December, 1993 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Covering the New Yorker: Cutting-Edge Covers from a Literary Institution by Francoise Mouly, Lawrence Weschler ISBN: 0789206579 Publisher: Abbeville Press, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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