How About Never -- Is Never Good For You?: My Life in Cartoons

Опубликовано 4 августа 2016, 22:10

The New Yorker receives around 1,000 cartoons each week; it only publishes ~17 of them. The magazine's longstanding cartoon editor and self-proclaimed "humor analyst" dissects the comedy within just some of the "idea drawings" featured in the magazine, explaining what works, what doesn't, and why. With the help of myriad images and his funniest, most beloved cartoons, he traces his love of the craft all the way back to his childhood, when he started doing funny drawings at the age of eight. More than memoir, though; it�s also an enormous window into the mystery and alchemy behind the creation and selection of New Yorker cartoons. He�ll talk about the book with �a digression into humor theory and the possibilities for algorithmic humor creation and recognition.�