New Yorker Cartoonists

A fun article in the online magazine Slate talks about getting a cartoon into the New Yorker. I used to take that magazine, and recall the cartoons as the highlight. The author here, James Sturm, is a graphic novelist, a much longer form than the gag cartoonist. As an experiment he decided to try his hand at getting a toon into the New Yorker, apparently a near-impossible task. It's a fascinating look at the process of producing the items that gave me so much pleasure.