The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons A Semi-Serious A-TO-Z Archive Bob Mankoff & David RemnickThe 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,

and I have always been a geek

The Racehorse Who Wouldn't Gallop:

And when a disaster rocks this already fragile community

A proper curry can be an exquisitely fragrant dish

But life on the sun-drenched Amalfi coast is not as peaceful as Luca anticipates

From savoury classics such as the perfect prawn cocktail

It's all going so well until Trumpet is STOLEN by a seagull

She's just blowing off steam

Minions: Banana

Squirrel's Snowman:

and a cascade of calamities

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