A monumental, two-volume slipcased collection featuring nearly a century’s worth of New Yorker cartoons

The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons is a slip-cased, two-volume, A to Z collection of cartoons by the magazine’s artists from 1924 to the present. Bob Mankoff – for two decades the cartoon editor of the New Yorker – has organized nearly 3,000 cartoons into more than 300 categories of recurring New Yorker 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 vs cats, of course. The result is hilarious and Mankoff’s commentary throughout adds both depth and whimsy. New Yorker editor David Remnick contributes a foreword.

This is a stunning gift for the millions of New Yorker readers and anyone looking for some humour in the evolution of social commentary.

About the Authors:

David Remnick has been editor of the New Yorker since 1998.

Bob Mankoff was the New Yorker cartoons editor from 1997 to 2017.

Contents List:

Volume I: A–K, featuring, among other themes, Adultery, Book Stores, Complaint Window, Dentistry, Elvis, Freud, Guns, Honey I’m Home, Intoxication, Jesus, Kissing 
Volume II: L–Z, featuring, among other themes, Laziness, Mobsters, Nepotism, Owls, Parties, Quarrels, Restaurants, Sex, Trump, Unicorns, Vegetarians, Writers, X-Rated, You’re Fired, Zombies

81 four-color and black-and-white images

For a little over a year, and conceived as part of The New Yorker’s redesign of its front section in 2005, Sylvia Plachy was the first photographer ever to be assigned to shoot the opening photograph of the essential Goings On About Town section of the legendary magazine.

From the Mermaid Parade on Coney Island to Forest Park in Queens, and from backstage to center stage, in Goings On About Town, Plachy explores the city’s dynamics from the inside out, revealing the vital and at times wacky creativity that energizes New York around the clock. In doing so, she presents hidden gems that we might otherwise never get to see up close, such as Macy’s workshop in New Jersey for the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Plachy’s particular humor and way of looking feels particularly suited to these assignments. Almost entirely in color, this volume also includes some images that have never been published. Joyful and idiosyncratic, Goings On About Town is quintessentially Sylvia Plachy, and quintessentially New York.