The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker

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Title: The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker Editor: Matthew Diffee
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Year: 2006
Genre: Cartoons
272 pages

+ A number of fun cartoons not fit for The New Yorker

-  Some duds, though this is not unlike reading The New Yorker

An enjoyable collection of cartoons rejected by The New Yorker. Often, this rejection appears to be based on sexual, religious, and scatalogical themes too risque for that august publication. Many feature these images: Small piles of feces, vomit, mutant sperm, gender-bending or cross-dressing males, couples in bed, puppets. If that sounds like a good time, you'll want to take a closer look at this volume. The collection is presented as short folios of each cartoonist's rejecta following a questionnaire filled in by each that is generally more entertaining as a blank form than as a completed document.

A good companion piece to Playboy's Kliban, sadly out of print but available here and there on teh intarweb.