This monumental, two-volume, slip-cased collection includes nearly 10 decades worth of
New Yorker
cartoons selected and organized by subject with insightful commentary by Bob Mankoff and a foreword by David Remnick.
The is the most ingenious collection of
cartoons published in book form,
The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons
is a prodigious, slip-cased, two-volume, 1,600-page A-to-Z curation of cartoons from the magazine from 1924 to the present. Mankoff — for two decades the cartoon editor of the
— organizes nearly 3,000 cartoons into more than 250 categories of recurring
themes and visual tropes, including cartoons on banana peels, meeting St. Peter, being stranded on a desert island, snowmen, lion tamers, Adam and Eve, the Grim Reaper, and dogs, of course. The result is hilarious and Mankoff's commentary throughout adds both depth and whimsy. The collection also includes a foreword by
editor David Remnick. This is stunning gift for the millions of
readers
and anyone looking for some humor in the evolution of social commentary.