The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons

The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons is a prodigious, slip-cased, two-volume, 1,600-page A-to-Z curation of cartoons from the magazine from 1924 to the present. Bob Mankoff – for two decades the cartoon editor of the New Yorker – organizes nearly 3,000 cartoons into more than 250 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, of course. The result is hilarious and Mankoff’s commentary throughout adds both depth and whimsy. The collection also includes a foreword by New Yorker editor David Remnick. This is stunning gift for the millions of New Yorker readers and anyone looking for some humour in the evolution of social commentary.

Table of Contents

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