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The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker

Edited by Matthew Diffee, foreword by Robert Mankoff

Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 264 pages, $22.95

The New Yorker runs about 20 cartoons every week, and this book rescues rejects from the filing cabinets of its contributors. These cartoons are (mostly) so clever and insightful that it is great fun to figure out why they didn’t make the cut. Could they have been too good?