Remember the post about
Mike Lynch's 27 cartoon rejections and then his rejection from a book about cartoons rejected from the
New Yorker? Well, the book (
Rejection Collection) was eventually published, and its author, Matthew Diffee,
had this to say about it. Since them,
Volume 2: The Cream of the Crap, has been released. I wonder if Mike Lynch's rejected cartoons made it into that book? Somehow I think
not.
What's fun about these books is seeing why they were rejected -- it wasn't because they aren't funny. They are. Mostly it's because the humor goes over some kind of line -- lots of suicide jokes.
ReplyDeleteThat Shanahan one with the vomiting puppet still makes me laugh.
wow! I gave BOOK COULD thing that never appear in Matthew diffee's rejections collection of the new yorker and it's 1000 mile long.
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