The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap
One man’s garbage is another man’s gold, or in this case a rejection pile of discarded cartoons for the New Yorker can turn into a pile of dough. Seems the formula is working the first rejection book was quite funny to see what the editorial staff will accept to be published in their fine magazine. Call me uncultured or say what you may, but sometimes those cartoons chosen for the magazine are not that funny. Did I miss the boat, or subtlety a part of the fixture of picking the cartoons. I am pretty sure as demonstrated by the rejections they had over the years that something is awry because some of the rejected cartoons are gut-busters at best. Then again it depends on the day of selection by the editor.
Each week The New Yorker receives more than five hundred submissions from its regular cartoonists, who are all vying for one of the twenty coveted spots in the magazine. So what happens to the 75 percent of cartoons that don’t make the cut? Some go back in a drawer, others go up on the refrigerator or into the filing cabinet…but the very best of all the rejects can be found right here in these pages.
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