The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons

by Mankoff, Bob

• ISBN13: 9780671035587
• ISBN10: 0671035584
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-27
• Publisher: Washington Square Press

Summary

Here is a cornucopia of 104 dead-on drawings and eye-opening ruminations on all things bookish, writerly, and readerly, courtesy ofThe New Yorker'srenowned stable of cartoonists, including Charles Barsotti, Roz Chast, Ed Koren, J.B. Handelsman, Jack Ziegler, and Victoria Roberts. In the bestselling tradition of such classics asThe New Yorker Book of Lawyer CartoonsandThe New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons,this collection of literary laughs is manna straight from bookworm heaven.

Author Biography

BOB MANKOFF became The New Yorker's cartoon editor in 1997. He is also the founder and president of The Cartoon Bank, a division of The New Yorker, which maintains the internet's only searchable cartoon archive. He has published four collections of his own work and has edited five other New Yorker cartoon collections, most recently The New Yorkers 75th Anniversary Cartoon Collection.