First published 2002
Robert Mankoff opens The New Yorker's cartoon vault to present sixty years of business humor from 1938 to 1998. The collection showcases work from celebrated cartoonists including George Booth, Roz Chast, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Edward Koren, and Gahan Wilson. As The New Yorker's cartoon editor, Mankoff selects pieces that capture the absurdities of corporate life across six transformative decades of American business. Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick provides an introduction that frames the collection. These cartoons chronicle everything from boardroom politics to office culture, revealing how artists have long found rich material in the world of commerce and corporate ambition.
Genres: humor, business, non-fiction, comedy, graphic-novels-comics
Vibes: thought-provoking, whimsical
Tropes: satire
Setting: New York
Period: 1938-1998
110 pages · Hardcover · Bloomberg Pr