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 A Laugh a Page! January 1, 2008
Pastor Gramma (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a must-have for every family that needs a laugh. We put it on a central hall table and our guests would stop, pick it up and laugh. Soon everyone was in the hall reading over someone else's shoulder. There's something in this book for every sense of humor--silly, cynical, creative, political, green, artistic and more.
 bad image quality November 28, 2007
Montedor44
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I lament, along with other reviewers the terrible horrible very bad image quality of the CDs. The problem is NOT a question of space on the CDs - just the opposite. If you save a typical cartoon to your computer, you will find that it makes a huge file - more than one megabyte. But if you scan the same perfect-quality cartoon from the book at a reasonable resolution, say 100 dots per inch, you will get a fine image at perhaps one-tenth of the size or less of the terrible image off the CD. A curious consequence is that instead of two CDs, they could have packaged a complete single CD with far better images.
As a college instructor, I bought the book in part for classroom use, and that requires displaying cartoons on an overhead projector. The projected image quality is so bad that the cartoons are unusable.
The New Yorker seems to be non-communicative about this fiasco - my email to Robert Mankoff went unanswered.
I hoped that the Complete New Yorker - the entire contents of all of the magazines, including the cartoons, would solve the problem, but the reviews for that product are not promising. Such sadness - such attitude!
On the other hand, the book is 5-star wonderful - fine quality reproductions, and a unique way to enjoy studying history. If the CD were up to snuff, this set would be 5 stars. I rate the package 1 star to warn prospective buyers like me, who want or need the CDs.
Great Book! November 28, 2007
Estefania Fernandez (New York, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Amazing book, great compilation of ALL New Yorker comics. This is a must have in your library or as a fun table book. Huge, heavy book. Highly recommended!
The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker November 1, 2007
Bill Peterson (Los Angeles)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book is masterfully compiled, edited printed and the CDs make it really complete. The cartoons are funny and also a great look at what the artists chose to illustrate a time and also many comedic subjects that are timeless.
I recommend this collection of classic cartoons without reservation.
Sincerely,
Bill Peterson
CD-rom is weak, but book is A-1 October 24, 2007
K. Swanson (Austin, TX United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I agree with the reviewers who point out that the cd/dvd-version cartoons are occasionally under-pixeled. BUT, more than half at least are just fine like that, so there's 40,000 cartoons to enjoy. Why not see that as simply a very big bonus?
The real deal here is 2,000 well-printed cartoons from some of America's most consistently trenchant cartoonists over the last eight decades. For twenty bucks, that seems pretty fair.
Over a thousand cartoons from Arno, Addams and Wilson alone? That right there is worth the ticket price. These guys are geniuses, and while no one will love everything here, anyone who is literate and possessed of a sense of humor will find many moments of sheer pleasure.
Those who find these cartoons too "high-brow", semi-oxymoronicism aside, will get by with their daily dose of Garfield and Family Circus. Lovers of the truly wry will be happy to enjoy this massive tome instead.
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