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How Hard Is It to Get a Cartoon into the New Yorker? (2011)
- verylittlemeat 9y agoThis article mentions it but it's worth noting here: https://contest.newyorker.com/ https://contest.newyorker.com/ Pretty fun if you enjoy comics in The New Yorker.
- nedwin 9y agoBuddy of mine wrote about his experience trying to get into the New Yorker here https://www.jasonchatfieldcomedy.com/blog/2017/4/26/new-yorker-part-1 https://www.jasonchatfieldcomedy.com/blog/2017/4/26/new-york...
- lostgame 9y agoSee, this is the story I wanted to read. :) Thanks so much for sharing this - what a fantastic story.
- lostgame 9y agoKind of depressing how he didn't end up seeing it through, but I get it. The point itself of the story seemed very 'New Yorker' in and of itself - a kind of existential, staring out the window looking at the rain kind of feeling. Cool to kind of get a window into the process, but I don't think anyone imagines that you could make a 'living' as a gag cartoonist. I'd automatically imagine you'd also be doing other work.
- downer70 9y agoIt used to be possible. I had college professors that did it for decades from the 60's until the mid-90's, when computers started killing off previously imaginable ways of life.
- Jun8 9y agoObligatory mention of New Yorker cartoon in Seinfeld's last season, dissected by Mankoff: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bob-mankoff/i-liked-the-kitty https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bob-mankoff/i-liked-the-k.... Great quote he uses from E. B. White: “Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.” If you still want to go ahead and dissect there's a whole area of linguistics devoted to this topic and this journal: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/humr https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/humr
- KingMob 9y agoAm I the only one who finds New Yorker cartoons dreadfully unfunny? I used to have a subscription, and found myself wishing I could get a discount by subscribing to a cartoon-less version.
- lainga 9y agoYou're not alone. I personally think they're a multi-decade instance of the "soap, no radio!" experiment: if you fashion yourself a NY socialite, you'll nervously laugh.
- KingMob 9y agoCould be. I'm definitely an over-educated New Yorker of 15 years now, and I haven't laughed once at a cartoon of theirs, but maybe that's why I'm not a socialite?
- natecavanaugh 9y agoI've found a few chuckle worthy, or kind of witty, but the vast majority seem like the inside joke of people who come off as wanting you to think of them as more in the know than you. And they could be. But give me a good Far Side comic strip in its place any day :)
- smithclay 9y agoThis reminds me of a favorite twitter bot that adds the same caption to every _New Yorker_ cartoon: https://twitter.com/newuniversalcap https://twitter.com/newuniversalcap
- aaron695 9y agoHow can one read Slate without giving it hits, on the odd chance it's an article that's worthy of a read like the old days, unlike the pretty objectionable material it has these days?
- coldelectrons 9y agoNot that hard; Just get elected to public office and you can have your antics and wacky hijinks published every day.