Book description
The riotous world of the classroom, captured by the cartoonists at
The New Yorker
The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons, Second Edition is a
hilarious compilation of cartoons that capture the joy, terror,
excitement, anxiety, fun, and bedlam that teachers experience every
day, as seen through the eyes of The New Yorker's best-loved cartoonists.
A wonderful collection from some of the best and brightest artists in
the world, The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons takes a wry
look into the classroom-at the students, at their devoted and
demanding parents, and, especially, at the teachers in the thick of things.
- Includes more than 100 hilarious cartoons
- Updated edition reflects recent changes in the world of education
- Features an introduction by Lee Lorenz
Compiled by Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker
and creator of more than eight hundred cartoons published in the
magazine, The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons is a perfect
gift for teachers, and an encyclopedia of laughs for us all.
Robert Mankoff is the cartoon editor of The New Yorker.
He is also a cartoonist, and more than 900 of his cartoons have been
published in the magazine in the past thirty years, including the
best-selling New Yorker cartoon of all time. He is the author
of the book The Naked Cartoonist, published in 2002, about the
creative process behind developing magazine-style cartoons. He has
also edited dozens of cartoon books and published four of his own.
Lee Lorenz became a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker
in 1958. He was the magazine's art editor from 1973 to 1993, and its
cartoon editor until 1997. He is the author of The Art of The New
Yorker as well as Here It Comes and Now Look What You've
Done. Lorenz has served as president of the Cartoonists' Guild and
lives in a rustic corner of Connecticut.
