![]() ![]() PESCA: Do you pitch them as concepts or do you draw them out and show him? ![]() If you live in New York, apparently, you're free and able to come in to The New Yorker offices on Tuesday and pitch your ideas of the week to Bob in person, and by Thursday you'll be rejected. DIFFEE: Well, that's easily done, although if you're - it depends where you live. It's always been my dream to be you, rejected by The New Yorker. PESCA: Oh, so take me through the process. ![]() PESCA: Mathew Diffee is out with his second collection of something called "The Rejection Collection." The - well, I don't even know if I could say the subtitle, but these are all the cartoons or the best of the cartoons that were rejected by The New Yorker. MATTHEW DIFFEE (Cartoonist, The New Yorker): I'm doing very well. Wait, is the guy's name Rob? How does the reader know he's not an asparagus? I think he liked my idea about talking broccoli Rob. Right now, he's furiously sketching away. For every dog on the psychiatrist's couch that makes the cut, there is a piece of talking broccoli Rob left on the cutting room floor.Įnter Matthew Diffee, himself an accomplished cartoonist. He's in a - maybe he sits on a comically exaggerated high horse, it's hard to say - but no man so carefully treads the line between the witty, the pretty witty, the not un-witty and obscure reference to Conway Twitty. Each week, The New Yorker's cartoon editor, Robert Mankoff, judges his fellow cartoonists from on high. ![]()
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