Have the new yorker's cartoons finally jumped the shark or is this awesome?

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― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

that is the worst. but I don't really read new yorker cartoons regularly any way.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty awful.

― n/a, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's like a New Yorker cartoon, but instead of wasting 2 seconds of your life if they suck, they waste 30 seconds.

― n/a, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

"finally"

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm really fond of NYer cartoon humor, but this whole concept flagrantly fails to recognize that the whole humor of them is 95% dependent on, like, captioning. I mean, I'm not sure any decent one-panel cartoon would survive animation, but NYer cartoons are so PARTICULARLY ill-suited to it: who the hell would look at those and think "what this needs is voice-acting?"

― nabisco, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

Like I'd say there's a pretty good reason the captions all appear in the same text style.

― nabisco, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

I was afraid the dog one was going to be some kind of Thurber desecration.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

most of the time I ignore the NYer cartoons, when my eyes do land on one invariably it seems like a non-sequitir or just resoundingly non-amusing. maybe I lost my literate sense of humor on the internets.

― m coleman, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

forks otm

― jergincito, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

This is like when they did the animated Gary Larson, which I found weird and disconcerting.

― Trayce, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

There was one cartoon I liked recently - young guy at job interview and the interviewer is looking at his resume and saying "I see you got along equally well with the jocks and the stoners."

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

BEK is pretty consistently good.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

eight years pass...

the hbo doc was good

ed steed is really compelling

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 02:41 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

https://media.newyorker.com/cartoons/594c545aff36f87032dc1781/master/w_1928,c_limit/170703_a20897.jpg

― Duane Barry, Sunday, 2 July 2017 01:25 (eight years ago)

two years pass...

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/some-other-bobas
whew, this is amazingly embarrassingly bad

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 04:26 (six years ago)

http://media.newyorker.com/photos/5dfd4674de5fcf00086aef94/master/w_774%2Cc_limit/2_Diffee_Boba.jpg

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 04:26 (six years ago)

wheres Boba Deeznuts

― frogbs, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 04:28 (six years ago)

nearly
http://media.newyorker.com/photos/5dfd46746822c40008c359cb/master/w_774%2Cc_limit/3_Diffee_Boba.jpg

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 05:02 (six years ago)

ten months pass...

If anyone a) is willing to go out into this virus infested world, b) is near an Ollie's Bargain Outlet, and c) doesn't have but would like to own that big 2-vol slipcased NY'er Encyclopedia of Cartoons from 2018, you could check there. They had a couple dozen sets at $20 each at my location today.

― scampo-phenique (WmC), Sunday, 15 November 2020 19:43 (five years ago)

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