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Laughing all the way to the Cartoon Bank


by Jerome Weeks 5 May 2008 8:58 AM

Former Denton, Texas native (and current New Yorker cartoonist) Matt Diffee is interviewed about the two volumes of The Rejection Collection that he edited of cartoons the New Yorker turned down — generally on grounds of bad taste: Can you foresee another era in which cartoonists are glittering celebrities and dating movie stars again, as in […]

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Former Denton, Texas native (and current New Yorker cartoonist) Matt Diffee is interviewed about the two volumes of The Rejection Collection that he edited of cartoons the New Yorker turned down — generally on grounds of bad taste:

Can you foresee another era in which cartoonists are glittering celebrities and dating movie stars again, as in Charles Addams’ era? Who among the current cartoonists would be most likely to meet that description should that happen again, do you think?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ah ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha… uh, no.

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