The New Yorker

== Cartoons ==
''The New Yorker'' has featured cartoons (usually [[gag cartoon]]s) since it began publication in 1925. For years, its cartoon editor was [[Lee Lorenz]], who first began cartooning in 1956 and became a ''New Yorker'' contract contributor in 1958.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Lee Lorenz |url=https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/lee-lorenz |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203023855/https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/lee-lorenz |archive-date=December 3, 2017 |access-date=July 31, 2015}}</ref> After serving as the magazine's art editor from 1973 to 1993 (when he was replaced by [[Françoise Mouly]]), he continued in the position of cartoon editor until 1998. His book ''The Art of the New Yorker: 1925–1995'' (Knopf, 1995) was the first comprehensive survey of all aspects of the magazine's graphics. In 1998, [[Robert Mankoff]] took over as cartoon editor and edited at least 14 collections of ''New Yorker'' cartoons. Mankoff also usually contributed a short article to each book, describing some aspect of the cartooning process or the methods used to select cartoons for the magazine. He left the magazine in 2017.<ref>Cavna, Michael. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/05/01/bob-mankoff-named-humor-editor-for-esquire-after-exiting-new-yorker-job/ "Bob Mankoff named humor editor for Esquire one day after exiting the New Yorker"], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129080600/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/05/01/bob-mankoff-named-humor-editor-for-esquire-after-exiting-new-yorker-job/ |date=January 29, 2018 }} ''Washington Post'' (May 1, 2017).</ref>

''The New Yorker''{{'}}s stable of cartoonists has included many important talents in American humor, including [[Charles Addams]], [[Peter Arno]], [[Charles Barsotti]], [[George Booth (cartoonist)|George Booth]], [[Roz Chast]], [[Tom Cheney (cartoonist)|Tom Cheney]], [[Sam Cobean]], [[Leo Cullum]], [[Richard Decker]], [[Pia Guerra]], [[J. B. Handelsman]], [[Helen E. Hokinson]], [[Pete Holmes]], [[Ed Koren]], [[Reginald Marsh (artist)|Reginald Marsh]], [[Mary Petty]], [[George Price (New Yorker cartoonist)|George Price]], [[Charles Saxon]], [[Burr Shafer]], [[Otto Soglow]], [[William Steig]], [[Saul Steinberg]], [[James Stevenson (illustrator)|James Stevenson]], [[James Thurber]], and [[Gahan Wilson]].

Many early ''New Yorker'' cartoonists did not caption their cartoons. In his book ''The Years with Ross'', Thurber describes the newspaper's weekly art meeting, where cartoons submitted over the previous week were brought up from the mail room to be looked over by Ross, the editorial department, and a number of staff writers. Cartoons were often rejected or sent back to artists with requested amendments, while others were accepted and captions were written for them. Some artists hired their own writers; Helen Hokinson hired James Reid Parker in 1931. [[Brendan Gill]] relates in his book ''Here at The New Yorker'' that at one point in the early 1940s, the quality of the artwork submitted to the magazine seemed to improve. It later was found out that the office boy (a teenaged [[Truman Capote]]) had been acting as a volunteer art editor, dropping pieces he did not like down the far end of his desk.<ref>Gill, Brendan. ''Here at The New Yorker''. New York: Berkley Medallion Press, 1976. p. 341.</ref>

Several of the magazine's cartoons have reached a higher plateau of fame. One 1928 cartoon drawn by [[Carl Rose (cartoonist)|Carl Rose]] and captioned by [[E.&nbsp;B. White]] shows a mother telling her daughter, "It's broccoli, dear." The daughter responds, "I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it." The phrase "[[I say it's spinach]]" entered the vernacular, and three years later, the Broadway musical ''Face the Music'' included [[Irving Berlin]]'s song "[[I Say It's Spinach (And the Hell with It)]]".<ref>Gill (1976), p. 220.</ref> The [[catchphrase]] "[[wikt:back to the drawing board|back to the drawing board]]" originated with the 1941 Peter Arno cartoon showing an engineer walking away from a crashed plane, saying, "Well, back to the old drawing board."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael Maslin – Finding Arno |url=http://michaelmaslin.com/index.php?page=finding-arno |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917221618/http://michaelmaslin.com/index.php?page=finding-arno |archive-date=September 17, 2008 |access-date=May 30, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=CBR.com – The World's Top Destination For Comic, Movie & TV news |url=http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/arno11.jpg |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131235442/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/arno11.jpg |archive-date=January 31, 2011 |access-date=September 7, 2010}}</ref>

The most reprinted is [[Peter Steiner (cartoonist)|Peter Steiner]]'s 1993 drawing of two dogs at a computer, with one saying, "[[On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog]]". According to Mankoff, Steiner and the magazine have split more than $100,000 in fees paid for the licensing and reprinting of this single cartoon, with more than half going to Steiner.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fleishman |first=Glenn |date=December 14, 2000 |title=Cartoon Captures Spirit of the Internet |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/14/technology/14DOGG.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=f0518aafeccf36fd&ex=1183089600 |access-date=October 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416205920/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/14/technology/14DOGG.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=f0518aafeccf36fd&ex=1183089600 |archive-date=April 16, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Peter Steiner's 'On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.' |url=http://www.unc.edu/depts/jomc/academics/dri/idog.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051029045942/http://www.unc.edu/depts/jomc/academics/dri/idog.html |archive-date=October 29, 2005 |access-date=July 24, 2007}}</ref>

Over seven decades, many hardcover compilations of ''New Yorker'' cartoons have been published, and in 2004, Mankoff edited ''The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker'', a 656-page collection with 2,004 of the magazine's best cartoons published during 80 years, plus a double CD set with all 68,647 cartoons ever published in the magazine. This features a search function allowing readers to search for cartoons by cartoonist's name or year of publication. The newer group of cartoonists in recent years includes [[Pat Byrnes]], [[J. C. Duffy]], [[Liana Finck]], [[Emily Flake]], [[Robert Leighton (cartoonist)|Robert Leighton]], [[Michael Maslin]], [[Julia Suits]], and [[P. C. Vey]]. Will McPhail cited his beginnings as "just ripping off ''Calvin and Hobbes'', Bill Watterson, and doing little dot eyes."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Freedom and Space: In Conversation with New Yorker Cartoonist Will McPhail |url=https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/home/will-mcphail-in-a-graphic-novel-interview |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207204215/https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/home/will-mcphail-in-a-graphic-novel-interview |archive-date=December 7, 2021 |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=Cleveland Review of Books |language=en-US}}</ref> The notion that some ''New Yorker'' cartoons have punchlines so oblique as to be impenetrable became a subplot in the ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode "[[The Cartoon]]",<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Mankoff |first=Robert |date=2012-07-11 |title=I Liked the Kitty |language=en-US |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bob-mankoff/i-liked-the-kitty |access-date=2023-07-15 |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> as well as a playful jab in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "[[The Sweetest Apu]]".{{Cn|date=July 2023}}

In April 2005, the magazine began using the last page of each issue for "The New Yorker Cartoon [[Caption Contest]]". Captionless cartoons by ''The New Yorker''{{'}}s regular cartoonists are printed each week. Captions are submitted by readers, and three are chosen as finalists. Readers then vote on the winner. Anyone age 13 or older can enter or vote. Each contest winner receives a print of the cartoon (with the winning caption) signed by the artist who drew the cartoon.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Caption Contest Rules |url=https://www.newyorker.com/about/caption-contest-rules |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712223454/https://www.newyorker.com/about/caption-contest-rules |archive-date=July 12, 2018 |access-date=July 12, 2018}}</ref> In 2017, after [[Bob Mankoff]] left the magazine, [[Emma Allen]] became the youngest and first female cartoon editor in the magazine's history.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cavna |first=Michael |date=2021-10-06 |title=Emma Allen is redefining what a New Yorker cartoon can be |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/10/05/emma-allen-new-yorker-cartoon-editor/ |access-date=2023-11-04 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> 

=== Comics journalism ===
Since 1993, the magazine has published occasional stories of [[comics journalism]] (alternately called "sketchbook reports")<ref name=Conduit>McGee, Kathleen. [https://www.conduit.org/interview/5/spiegelman "Spiegelman Speaks: Art Spiegelman is the author of Maus for which he won a special Pulitzer in 1992. Kathleen McGee interviewed him when he visited Minneapolis in 1998"], ''Conduit'' (1998).</ref> by such cartoonists as [[Marisa Acocella Marchetto]], [[Barry Blitt]], [[Sue Coe]], [[Robert Crumb]] and [[Aline Kominsky-Crumb]], [[Jules Feiffer]], [[Ben Katchor]], [[Carol Lay]], [[Gary Panter]], [[Art Spiegelman]], [[Mark Alan Stamaty]], and [[Ronald Wimberly]].<ref>Williams, Kristian. "The Case for Comics Journalism", ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'' Vol. 43, Iss. 6, (Mar/Apr 2005), pp. 51–55.</ref>