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The Best of the Rejection Collection rescued by Matthew Diffee

297 Cartoons That Were Too Dark, Too Weird, or Too Dirty for The New Yorker

You have to visit Matt’s website…he has a VERY FUNNY BOOK TRAILER… 

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I know what it feels like to be rejected — by The New Yorker!

So you can imagine how much I enjoyed talking to Matthew Diffee — who has had so many of his cartoons published in the premier magazine for cartoonists.

Hundreds and hundreds of cartoons pour into The New Yorker. I know three of mine were among the bunch — but they never got anywhere. Well, thinking about it now — it was in the late 90’s. Perhaps they used my cartoons for Sammy Sosa’s ticket-tape parade.

But Matthew Diffee doesn’t have to worry — they publish his cartoons like stacks of pancakes that keep coming and coming. And they are right — because they are among my favorites.

Loyal readers to TNY usually check out the cartoons first — and we have our favorite.  Now Matthew Duffee has selected for this second edition 297 cartoons that will get you smiling — or thinking. And even some laugh out loud moments.

I love his A Day in the Brain of a Cartoonist. And his FAQs with famous cartoonists. By the way, they say there are fifty-odd cartoonists represented in thus book. What does that mean exactly? 51? 53? 57?  Or does it mean 50 ODD — REALLY ODD — cartoonists? Maybe I could do a cartoon about that…maybe I won’t get rejected….maybe my dream will come true and I — moi — will be published the the venerable and brilliant New Yorker magazine. (Cartoon editor, please note my compliments before your reject me….)

I love Matthew Diffee’s work — check his website where has a great trailer to describe his book of cartoons.

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