The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons: A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive

Bought from SVNN Goodwill. Book was in perfect mint condition (including the plastic wrap and the promo flyer.Fantastic, large in size (2 huge tomes), excellent paper (joy to flip pages) … and The New Yorker cartoons, 3000 of them all personally selected by Mr. Mankoff! Trifecta!

So much to like about this. First of all, I find it very soothing to look at cartoons or comics when I'm trying to fall asleep, so I downloaded the Kindle version of this book. Some of the drawings are so good I enjoy looking at the backgrounds, thinking about how styles have changed (women still wore hats in 1967?), and seeing that life hasn't changed all that much in years, though the details evolve.The book isn't formatted to display cleanly on my iPhone, but that's not a huge problem. I'd prefer one cartoon per page because when they try to stuff two on a page the caption for the second often gets pushed onto the next page. Not the end of the world, but kind of sloppy.The narrative between sections is often funny and always informative. Makes me notice things I'd never see on my own.Highly recommended.

I bought this as a gift for my husband who is a great fan of The New Yorker and its cartoons in particular. The books are beautifully bound and boxed. The paper is of high quality. The cartoons are classified by category, which makes it particularly fun if you want a laugh and any given topic. He is enjoying it thoroughly. Got it for $50 which was a great price!

Muy lindo y muy bueno el servicio. Agradezco a Amazon toda la ayuda respecto a esta enciclopedia que compré. Gracias

…But there is a little Redundancy withs some Whole Cartoons, & some ideas, which may have been included for diversity ( ? )The Other Big annoyance is that The pages should have been formatted & scanned for each book page, to avoid The image being separated from The caption too often ( ! ) I think it may have been possible to fix this sort of thing with internal captioning, such as ‘newpage’ or ‘nobreak’, but treating each page like a magazine page would probably be easier ( ? )

Amazing collection at a killer price on Amazon. Great gift item for friends or family that appreciate social satire and snarky humor. Beautifully printed and bound. Perfect for the coffee table.

What is so striking about these book is that they are HEAVY. Really heavy. Literally. But the contents, and their themed delivery, are worth the weight.

The compilation of The New Yorker cartoons is wonderful and all subjects and themes are included. The seller was also great as I never received the original order although USPS confirmed delivery. I contacted the seller and they immediately reshipped a new order. Excellent service and I recommend both the book and seller. Thank you!