At Wit's End
Cartoonists of The New Yorker
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
An exclusive sneak peek inside the creative minds of more than 50 New Yorker cartoonists, celebrating legends and newcomers alike with stunning photography and engaging profiles.
For a century, The New Yorker has provided readers with hundreds of thousands of cartoons that humorously (and accurately) encapsulate the cultural happenings in our world. From politics to pop culture, New Yorker cartoonists have found a way to make complex topics digestible through lines, shades, and clever, witty captions.
In honor of the magazine’s 100th birthday, this celebratory collection captures the brilliantly quirky personalities behind some of The New Yorker’s most iconic cartoons. Filled with striking portraits by world-renowned photographer Alen MacWeeney, captivating profiles by long-time New Yorker contributor Michael Maslin, and a sampling of each artist’s work, these pages offer an exclusive peek inside the creative brains of over fifty prominent cartoonists, both seasoned and newly minted. From legends like Roz Chast and Jack Ziegler to contemporaries like Liana Finck and Jeremy Nguyen, this landmark volume is a beautiful homage to the artists who have long brought joy, humor, and satire to our lives.
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New Yorker cartoonists are celebrated as characters in their own right in this mixed-bag illustrated tribute. Maslin (Peter Arno), a New Yorker cartoonist himself, provides brief profiles of his colleagues (including legends George Booth and Roz Chast, as well as newbies like Ellie Black) alongside MacWeeney's photographic portraits and a few of each subject's cartoons. Maslin's elegant prose ably evokes the artists' styles ("David Sipress's drawings seem on their way to collapsing; the scritchy lines of varying widths appear in need of adhesive tape to hold the whole thing together"), though the cartoons themselves are hit-or-miss. While Emily Flake amuses with her depiction of a jaded New York dad counseling his child on the playground ("Son, if you can't say something nice, say something clever but devastating"), the majority fall flat with head-scratching conceits (Drew Dernavich's "Stonehenge Squarepants" features a megalith decked out in men's underwear) or groan-worthy puns (Maslin contributes a cartoon of an angry pie yelling, "C'mon! You want a piece of me?"). Only the most avid New Yorker fans will be in on the joke.
