The New Yorker 75th Anniversary Cartoon Collection: 2005 Desk Diary

Brilliant compilation. A must have for any political cartoon enthusiast.

Good book with a nice collection of good comics. We are enjoying it

This beautiful, hard-cover book of New Yorker cartoons was a HUGE hit with a friend who loves the magazine and especially its iconic cartoons!

A really swell compilation for any humor enthusiast.

Father's Day present and he loves it. Used but in great conditioin. Had seen it in a Dr.'s office waiting room. Very funny.

Considering how literate and erudite the New Yorker tends to view itself, it's surprising that a collection of cartoons supposedly representing 75 years of social change are presented so randomly and without temporal identification.The purpose of most cartoons is to make contemporary social commentary in a humorous, visual format. The trouble is, when those cartoons are reproduced years (or decades) later, the cultural situations or mores they originally poked fun at can be meaningless to present-day readers.Early suburban life, the Organization Man of the 50s and 60s, big business, womens lib, the Me Generation of the 80s, etc., were all fertile fields for cartoonists of the time, but topical humor isn't always timeless and needs to be placed in some perspective if it's to be understood years later.Most astute readers of this book will be able to place the cartoons in general time periods from clues in the subject matter or the drawing style, but printing the original date of publication in the margins would have allowed this material to be appreciated as timely social commentary and not just a haphazard collection of stand-alone jokes.