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A cartoonist for New Yorker magazine, Steinberg was known for his satirical style. Over his 50-year career with the magazine, he produced 642 drawings plus 85 covers, the most famous being "View of the World from 9th Avenue" (March 29, 1976 issue), an often-imitated jab at the tendency of New Yorkers to view the city as most of the world: Ninth Avenue takes up half the foreground, and tiny patches in the far background stand in for "Pacific Ocean" and "China" -- and little else. "He was making fun of New Yorkers, but he was including himself," says cover editor Francoise Mouly. His "twisted" drawings of Hitler and Benito Mussolini were printed in quantity and dropped behind enemy lines during World War II. Born in Romania, Steinberg received a doctorate in architecture in Italy at age 26. He worked in the field for only a few months, but his precise drawings (thanks to what he called "reasoned lines") reflected his training. Steinberg died May 12 at his Manhattan home. He was 84. From This is True for 9 May 1999 Suggestions for further reading:
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Throughout the book, brief overviews of each era's predominant themes—from the Depression and nudity to technology and the Internet, highlight various genres of cartoons and shed light on our pastimes and preoccupations. Brief profiles and mini-portfolios spotlight the work of key cartoonists, including Arno, Chast, Ziegler, and others. The DVD-ROM included with the book is what really makes the "Complete Cartoons" complete. Compatible with most home computers and easily browsable, the disk contains a mind-boggling 70,363 cartoons, indexed in a variety of ways. Perhaps you'd like to find all the cartoons by your favorite artist. Or maybe you'd like to look up the cartoons that ran the week you were born, or all of the cartoons on a particular subject. Of course, you can always begin at the beginning, February 21, 1925, and experience the unprecedented pleasure of reading through every single cartoon ever published in The New Yorker. 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It’s a humor bonanza— and an unbeatable value.  List Price: $22.95 Amazon Price: $7.49 Editorial Review: Each week about fifty New Yorker cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred cartoons for no more than twenty spots in the magazine. Arguably the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in the world create a bunch of cartoons every week that never see the light of day. These rejects were piling up in the dusty corners of studios all over the country. Sam Gross, who has been contributing since 1962, has more than 12,000 rejected cartoons. (Seriously. He's been numbering every single cartoon he's ever submitted to The New Yorker since the very beginning.) Enter editor Matthew Diffee. He tapped his fellow cartoonists, asking them to rescue these hilarious lost gems. From the artists' stacks of all-time favorite rejects, Diffee handpicked the standouts -- the cream of the crap -- and created The Rejection Collection, a place where good ideas go when they die. Too risqué, silly, or weird for The New Yorker, the cartoons in this book offer something no other collection has: They have never been seen in print until now. With a foreword by New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff that explains the sound judgment, respectability, and scruples not found anywhere in these pages, and handwritten questionnaires that introduce the quirky character of each artist, The Rejection Collection will appeal to fans of The New Yorker...and to anyone with a slightly sick sense of humor.  List Price: $21.95 Amazon Price: $14.93 Editorial Review: This wonderful collection of the best and funniest cartoons published over the last eighty years in The New Yorker takes a wry look into the classroom--at the students, at thier blindly devoted but demanding parents, and especially, at the teachers who negotiate the delicate balance between those forces every day. With 118 cartoons, this is a perfect gift for teachers and a treasure of laughs for all!  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Handpicked by editor Matthew Diffee, these hilarious cartoons are accompanied by handwritten questionnaires and photographed self-portraits, providing a rare glimpse into the minds of the artists behind the rejection. With appendices that explore the top ten reasons why cartoons are rejected and examine the solitary nature of the job of cartooning--plus a special bonus section of questions asked of and answered by cartoon editor Robert Mankoff--this sequel to The Rejection Collection offers even deeper insight into the exercise in frustration, patience, and amusement that is being a New Yorker cartoonist. Warped, wicked, and wildly funny, The Rejection Collection Vol. 2 will appeal to every New Yorker fan--and everyone with a taste for the absurd. Amazon Exclusive A Cartoon from Matthew Diffee That's because, in most cases, these are wildly inappropriate for the pages of a sophisticated literary magazine. I think you'll see what I mean when you take a look. And if you ask me, just knowing that these gags were ever submitted to The New Yorker at all makes them a little bit funnier--maybe 6 percent. --Matthew Diffee |
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