The New Yorker cartoons

The New Yorker Cartoons 
First let’s say a few words about The New Yorker : It’s a magazine edited by David Remnick and created on 21 February 1925 by Harold Ross,who worked for The New York Times, and his wife,Jane Grant. Ross wanted to create this magazine because he wanted to create something humourous. He edited his magazine until his death in 1951. The magazine talks about politics and focuses on the cultural life of New-York and other subjects,always with a lot of irony. It is published by Condé Nast. The magazine started as a weekly and is now published forty-seven times annually.

The cartoons have been included in the magazine since the beginning adopting various styles and discussing varied subjects such as everyday life topics,politics,movies or series. The magazine is avalaible online or in print. There is also an encyclopedia written by David Remnick that you can buy.

Now let’s talk about some editors of the cartoons

The first cartoon editor was Lee Lorenz,a cartoonist who began his job in 1956 and became a New Yorker contract contributor in 1958. After his service as the magazaine’s arts editor from 1973 to 1993, when he was replaced by Francoise Mouly, he continued as cartoon editor until 1998. He has written a book called “The Art of The New Yorker” and received The national Cartoonist Society’s Gag cartoon award in 1995. The magazine has published more than 1600 of his drawings.

In 1993, Robert Mankoff became the new editor. He edited 14 collections and also contributed a short article to each book,describing some aspects of the cartooning process or the methods used to select cartoons for the magazine. He edited “The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker”, a book with more than six hundred pages ( 665 exactly ) representing two thousand and four of the best cartoons of the magazine. Robert Mankoff left the magazine in 2017 for another one called Esquire. 

The New Yorker has employed many other important talents such as Charles Adams, Peter Arno, Sam Cobean and more. Some artists choose to hire their own writers.

There is also a website, called “ The cartoon bank”, on which there is more than eighty thousand cartoons from The New Yorker. This includes some of the most popular cartoons, such as the most printed one by Peter Steiner in 1933 ; It is a drawing of two dogs at a computer speaking to each other with one of the two dogs saying: “ On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”. Mankoff and Steiner said that the magazine had split more than one thousand dollars in fees paid for the licensing and reprinting of this single cartoon, with more than half going to Steiner. 

Finally, in April 2005, the magazine started to use its last page for “The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest” The regular cartoonists are printed each week, their work is submitted to readers and three finalists are chosen. Each contest winner receives a print of the cartoon signed by the artist who drew the cartoon. 

Séverine Penné 



"SOURCES

List the websites and (if applicable) any other sources (books, magazines, tv series,…) you have consulted:

 

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorker#Cartoons

- https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bob-mankoff/the-story-of-how-about-never

- https://cartoonbank.com/about

- https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mankoff

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Remnick

- https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/lee-lorenz

- Google image