• The New Yorker, Thursday, August 27, 2015 1:55 PM

The New Yorker is celebrating the 90^th anniversary of its famously dry, odd cartoons with a new book, the “90th Anniversary Book of Cartoons,” now available on newsstands as well as for mobile and tablet devices. The magazine published its first cartoon on February 21, 1925, and has subsequently published over 79,000 cartoons; recently that has included daily cartoons online. Cartoon editor Robert Mankoff explained: “It’s been said that ninety-eight per cent of New Yorker readers look at the cartoons first, and that the other two per cent lie. I’m confident the full hundred per cent will be delighted by this collection. It has some of the greatest cartoons from the magazine’s nine decades. Plus, even the liars won’t have to feel guilty about reading the cartoons first, because that’s all there is.”

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