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| The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker | 
 enlarge | Creator: Robert Mankoff
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $60.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  74 reviews
Sales Rank: 62185
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 656
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9.1
Dimensions (in): 13.3 x 11.3 x 1.8
ISBN: 1579124186
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
UPC: 768821232283
EAN: 9781579124182
ASIN: 1579123228
Publication Date: October 5, 2004
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Condition: one of the cd's not included Used - Good
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| Customer Reviews:
 The Cartoons are great! CDs are awesome too... July 8, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I wanted to clarify some doubts about the resolution of the cartoons on the CDs. They are perfectly fine and don't know how it can be better. The CD contains cartoons in pdf documents, and there is one cartoon per page. Each cartoon is dated and has the cartoonist's name. I didn't find any problem at all. I am using Adobe Acrobat reader 7.0 and Windows Vista OS. The CD couldn't directly launch pdf which I suspect is because of Vista. Hence, I just opened mainmenu.pdf directly from adobe acrobat reader and was really happy. Please go ahead and buy this, the CDs are not low resolution.
Great read! June 27, 2007
A real study in the evolution of society and humor. I consistently laughed at either the cartoon itself or the change in mores and folkways. This collection is a treat!
 Book is wonderful, CD's are nearly fraudulent January 21, 2007
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
IF you want this book almost exclusively for reading the cartoons - on paper - by all means buy it. They are delightful, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. The cartoons are a terrific history lesson of the culture of the New Yorker reader. For example, while FDR was being re-elected three times by historic margins, the New Yorker reader identified with wealthy characters who couldn't stand his egalitarian economics. Fascinating and funny besides.
IF you are largely looking forward to the CD-ROM's, DON'T buy this book under any circumstances. As reported elsewhere, the cartoons are so poorly reproduced that signs - often essential to the laugh - are completely illegible. Also, sometimes Adobe Reader will obscure cartoons under a gray "filter". The filter doesn't disappear until the magnification reaches 200%, by which time the poor quality is far worse. Also, at 200%, the cartoon is often so large that you can't see the whole thing on your screen. Mind-boggling.
How could "The New Yorker" jeopardize their reputation with these shoddy CD's? I understand their concerns about people re-publishing good copies, but as it stands, these CD's are extremely frustrating and guaranteed to annoy and disappoint. I have had more satisfying experiences with CD-ROM's that came free on a Cheerios box.
 DVD is a *great* disappointment January 17, 2007
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Since I received this book as a gift, I am not inclined to return it. If I had payed my own money for it I almost certainly would. The book itself is perfectly adequate, but the real promise was in the DVD, which apparently contains all of the cartoons from the magazine's history in PDF format. I won't blame the publisher for the poor interface offered by Acrobat Reader, and the index is fantastic. As noted elsewhere, however, the resolution of the scanned cartoons is abysmal. In many cases details critical to the humor of the cartoon are not clear.
It is a mystery to me why the publisher has elected to use low resolution scans for this product. The PDF documents apparently include DRM protections to prevent large-scale copying of the cartoons (screen captures are still an option, but who would be that committed to stealing this material?), thereby protecting the New Yorker's Cartoon Bank property. So why give us thousands of cartoons in a barely viewable format? Very disappointing.
Humour Personified January 9, 2007
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you enjoy great humour put this book on top of your
to do list.
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