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
Bio
Matthew Diffee
Matthew Diffee has contributed cartoons to The New Yorker since 1999. He is the editor of "The Rejection Collection," an anthology of rejected New Yorker cartoons, and "The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap." He is the creator and host of "The Steam Powered Hour," a monthly variety show.
Robert Mankoff
Robert Mankoff has been a cartoonist for The New Yorker since 1977 and became the magazine's cartoon editor in 1997. He is the founder and former president of the Cartoon Bank, a digital archive of New Yorker cartoons and cover art, and the author of The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity.
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.
U.S. weekly magazine, famous for its varied literary fare and humour. It was founded in 1925 by Harold Ross, who was its editor until 1951. Initially focused on New York City's amusements and social and cultural life, it gradually acquired a broader scope, encompassing literature, current affairs, and other topics. Aimed at a sophisticated, liberal audience, it became renowned for its short fiction, cartoons, major (occasionally book-length) nonfiction pieces, and detailed reviews in the arts. It was sold in 1985 to Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr. (seeNewhouse family). Since Ross, its editors have been William Shawn (195287), Robert Gottlieb (198792), Tina Brown (199298), and David Remnick (from 1998).
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 :-) ?