The Rejection Collection : Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker (Hardcover)

from Devil_llama

A collection of cartoons that were pulled out of the reject pile of the New Yorker. Some of these it's easy to see why they never saw publications; others, well not so much. Often clever, almost always snarky, occasionally incomprehensible, just like the cartoons that DO see publication. Included...

from swl

A unique and entertaining idea for a book. At first I thought the rejected cartoons would be bizarre or curiously un-funny; the true angle isn't clear until you read the editor's comments. A contributor himself, he gave a variety of other NYorker cartoonists a quirky questionnaire and asked them ...

from DetailMuse

Definitely funny! And while admittedly edgier than The New Yorker (language, bodily functions, gore), not offensive. Even better were the accompanying photos of featured cartoonists and their clever responses to a (probably intentionally lame) questionnaire.

from kristenn

My sense of humor is actually not particularly twisted, so these had about as much of a hit/miss rate as the accepted versions. But that's still a pretty high hit rate. As a subscriber, I actually enjoyed the cartoonist profiles just as much as the cartoons. Funniest : "34-C?"

from Ibreak4books

The "interviews" with the cartonnists were funnier than most of their cartoons--which weren't bad, just a little twisted.