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In other news, have you heard about the the Baby Daddy Theory of Poetic Influence?
Meanwhile, via Mike Lynch, a cartoonist named Roy Delgado has so far submitted 19,000 cartoons to The New Yorker (by his estimate), all rejected.
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Other writing by Emily Gordon
- Profile: Valerie Casey, Designers Accord founder, is spearheading the design of sustainability (for SXSW World; PDF, p. 20)
- Feature: Rea Irvin: visionary art director, man about town, and New Yorker founding father (for Print)
- Report: Learning to read with comic books--that are edited by Françoise Mouly (for Print)
- Interview: Designer Eleanor Grosch (for Print)
- Review: Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda H. Davis (for Newsday)
- Review: King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Review: Does a New Republic redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
- Report: Eustace Tilley spruces up for The New Yorker's website redesign (for Print)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands, and an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Print)
- Review: books about various New Yorker cartoonists by Liza Donnelly and Iain Topliss (for Newsday)
- Profile: screenwriter and novelist Joe Keenan (for Newsday)
- Review: The Complete New Yorker (for Print)
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Speaking of which, that new book of
rejected New Yorker cartoons is out in the
stores now. I hope you will be reviewing
it soon. I think it is put out by Diffee.
Want to review it, Bruce? Seriously. I'll get you a copy.
Slight Correction on Mike Lynch's blog . . My cartoons that appear on a regular basis in Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Barrons, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping, First for Women, Womans World, Medical Economics, The Writer, The National Law Journal, Business Law Today, American Legion, Hemispheres The Magazine of United Airways, etc, etc. and the new book: NATIONAL LAMPOONS FAVORITE CARTOONS OF THE 21st CENTURY, where I'm prominently featured, are ALL NEW YORKER REJECTED CARTOONS.
The title is really: THE WORLD'S MOST REJECTED CARTOONIST FROM ONE MAGAZINE ( WHO SUPPOSEDLY BUY FREELANCE CARTOONS FROM THE OPEN MARKET ) WHO HAS SUBMITTED REGULARLY AND TIMELY AND WITHOUT INTERRUPTION AND CONTINUES TO GET REJECTED.
The interesting thing is that 99% of the REGULAR CARTOONISTS
who appear in the above magazines are ALL NEW YORKER CARTOONISTS!
I WILL BE IN THE NEW YORKER. . if I have to BUY CONDE NASTE.
I'm addicted to emdashes, what a wonderful site to NEW YORKER LOVERS. GREAT JOB YOU DO!
Roy Delgado
If I DO buy it, I better learn how to spell CONDE NAST !
Roy Delgado