Matthew Diffee - Matthew Diffee is one of the most prolific of The New Yorker's new generation of cartoonists, having published over a hundred cartoons in the magazine since 1999. The Texas-native also edited The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, And Never Will See, In The New Yorker.
A compendium of thirty New Yorker cartoonists' favorite work turned down by the magazine, The Rejection Collection includes cartoons by Leo Cullum, Gahan Wilson, Drew Dernavich, and Sam Gross. Diffee is also the co-founder of "The Rejection Show," a monthly Off-Broadway event in New York featuring the rejected work of otherwise successful comedic writers and performers.
Robert Mankoff - For the past decade, Robert Mankoff has been rejecting and accepting cartoons as the Cartoon Editor for The New Yorker. Mankoff also founded and runs the magazine's online component "The Cartoon Bank," a licensing, syndication, and archive business, which is now the largest computerized archive of its kind. Mankoff sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1977, and has been published regularly in the magazine ever since. He is the author of The Naked Cartoonist: A Way to Enhance Your Creativity, a combination memoir, how-to, abridged history, and manifesto for the art and craft of cartooning.
Steven Winn - Steven Winn is the arts and culture critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, a position he assumed after 22 years as a theater critic at the paper.
His work has appeared in American Theatre, Art News, the New York Times, Sports Illustrated and various other publications.
Matthew Diffee and Robert Mankoff in conversation with Steven Winn.
City Arts & Lectures invites Matthew Diffee and Robert Mankoff from the New Yorker's cartoon department to discuss working in the margins. Diffee has had over 100 cartoons published in the magazine since 1999 - including his famous funny of Che Guevara sporting a Bart Simpson t-shirt - though he's also interested in the other side of success, as demonstrated by the anthology he edited, The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, And Will Never See, in the New Yorker. As cartoon editor for the magazine, meanwhile, Mankoff probably has a different perspective on the selection process. Steven Winn facilitates what promises to be an illuminating repartee- City Arts & Lectures
Great, thanks, i'm with bapyou on this, why the heck does the video fade after 34 mn, right in the middle of the talk? At least it would be nice to have been told beforehand about this. And do we have a chance of ever getting the full version :-) ?