Best Copy: The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs

The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs was published in 2012, a year before the similarly-named feline collection also from Random House. The Brattle Book Shop in Massachusetts has a copy of both "big" books, each signed by several contributors. The cartoonists who signed the Dogs book are Lee Lorenz, Bob Mankoff, Roz Chast, Victoria Roberts and Jules Feiffer. A number of writers also signed alongside their contributions: Roddy Doyle, Ian Frazier, Malcolm Gladwell (who also penned the foreword), Adam Gopnik, Jonathan Lethem, and poet Charles Simic. There must have been a launch party or some in-house celebration for so many signatures to be readily obtained, one would think. The price: $200.

Spot drawing
Otto Soglow

Image added September 2, 2023

The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs
Biblio listing accessed August 5, 2023

https://www.biblio.com/book/big-new-yorker-book-dogs-gladwell/d/1507328807?placement=search_results_list

Note:  "Best Copy" is a new designation for the blog, but I think this multiply-signed copy of The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs fits the bill. As with yesterday's post about The Big New Yorker Book of Cats, this is subjectively the best copy of the Dogs book I've seen, but I acknowledge that others may have seen even better. I hope readers with access to such copies, if materially different from this one, will pass along some images.

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Bob Mankoff: What Women Want

Before Bob Mankoff was the New Yorker's cartoon editor, he had a two-decade career cartooning for the magazine. Here's a great example of his art from 1990, selling, it would seem, for a song.

Bob Mankoff, original art, The New Yorker, February 26, 1990, page 43
"Women want more these days, Bill—it's not enough
just to be a jerk anymore."

Detail showing the underlying pencil marks

Bob Mankoff's signature

The back of the frame

Bob Mankoff

http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/robert-mankoff-american,-20th-21st-century-498-c-6dc447b9e9

Bob Mankoff, The New Yorker, February 26, 1990, page 43
"Women want more these days, Bill—it's not enough
just to be a jerk anymore."

http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1990-02-26#folio=042

Note:  Attempted Bloggery is always looking for original art by Bob Mankoff to share with an increasingly humorless world.

As of tomorrow, Emma Allen will be the New Yorker's new cartoon editor. For those who wish to view this change in its proper historical perspective, I present the magazine's complete roster of art editors and cartoon editors since 1925.

From Mr. Geraghty's time to 1993, the art editor was responsible for covers and cartoons. Since 1993, the art editor has been responsible only for covers and the cartoon editor has been responsible only for cartoons.

Rea Irvin, art supervisor, 1925-1939; art director, 1939-1951

James Geraghty, art editor, 1939-1972

Lee Lorenz, art editor, 1973-1993; cartoon editor, 1993-1997

Françoise Mouly, art editor, 1993-

Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor, 1997-2017

Emma Allen, cartoon editor, 2017-


Quick Links to the Attempted Bloggery Archives:

Rea Irvin

James Geraghty

Lee Lorenz

Françoise Mouly

Bob Mankoff

Emma Allen

Original New Yorker Cartoon Art

Attempted Bloggery's Woman-Pleasing Index

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