The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons

The New Yorker Book of Cartoons

by Robert Mankoff (Editor), Roz Chast, Lee Lorenz

School is a mixture of joy, terror, work, excitement, boredom, anxiety, fun, and bedlam day after day, year after year. If this is true for students, it is exponentially true for teachers-those hearty souls who have taken on the education of the youth of the world.

This wonderful collection of the best and funniest cartoons published over the last eighty years in The New Yorker takes a wry look into the classroom-at the students, at their blindly devoted but demanding parents, and, especially, at the teachers who negotiate the delicate balance between those forces every day.

With 118 cartoons, this is a perfect gift for teachers and a treasure of laughs for all!

Genres: Humor, Comics, Education, Comic Strips, Art, Anthologies, Graphic Novels

118 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2006

About the author

Robert Mankoff is an American cartoonist, editor, and author. He was the cartoon editor for The New Yorker for nearly twenty years. Before he succeeded Lee Lorenz as cartoon editor at The New Yorker, Mankoff was a New Yorker cartoonist for twenty years.

Reviews

[Exina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Christmas present from my husband.

Great collection, I loved it.

[Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good entry in this series, there are definitely some laughs here. Bob Mankoff is credited with editing this particular collection which always gives me more confidence that it’s going to be good and in this case that confidence wasn’t misplaced. Surprisingly he included none of his own cartoons, usually he does a pretty good job of seeing he’s represented but maybe the subject wasn’t really up his alley. The book probably sets a record for cartoons set in a classroom but the humor is more diverse than the settings.

[Tracey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fun book to read. The cartoons about education are funny, but some are dated. This may not be that funny to younger teachers. However, retired teachers would laugh at most of them. It is interesting to see the trends in education in the eyes of cartoonists!

[Ashleigh Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best birthday present eva :)

[Ruel · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars.

Picture two dogs standing near their food bowls. Each bowl is filled with paper. One dog says to the other, "Oh no, not homework again."

Did you laugh out loud? Then, this book will be a five-star romp through the best teacher-related cartoons in the New Yorker's long and distinguished publishing history.

If, like me, you had a nice little chuckle, then this book will be a two- or three-star affair. While I enjoy reading the New Yorker on occasion, the cartoons always register a "meh" on my laughter scale. It's not that the jokes go over my head; I just don't think they're that funny. Clever? Yes. Amusing? Yes. Hilarious? No.

The entire collection only takes about 15 minutes to get through, so it's worth checking out to see if it'll produce a few giggles or guffaws.

[Cathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

My husband got me this book for Christmas. (We had an early Christmas with family.)

I love New Yorker cartoons, and although I'd seen a couple of these before, they're funny. I'd reread them.

I love the open-mike physics night. As funny as that might seem, some people would do a good job with it.

The line, "I need you to line up by attention span" was good, too.

I also love the cat taking the kitten to school, the commentary on backpacks, and death paddling the canoe to cross the river Stix to school.

[Sam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nerd alert! They were very sharp and funny. Most are very aware of the failings of the Public schooling and low std in Math(that was hilarious!)

The best was "I need you to line up by attention span" followed by "We've created a safe, non judgmental environment that will leave your child ill-prepared for real-life"
"I cant function under this kind of scrutiny" "What does he know and how long will he know it"
"The Innocence seems forced"

[chrstphre campbell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reminder for The Horrors of Adolescence

I had a tremulous childhood with undiagnosed autism, & many of these cartoons reminded me of The horrors that escaped me then, but I’ve become cognizant of in my now ‘adult’ years.
What a waste of time ‘schooling’ was.
: - - - - - : o
( ? )

[Z · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's just a historical cartoons now, for me. Because there is no more class, school, desk, table, chalk and familiar teacher.. I read and reviewed it like looking at a piece of my past. Actually I did not like the presented cartoons in that book but they are very valuable.

[Gerry Durisin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great collection!

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m a teacher. These are teacher cartoons. I found them funny.

[Eduard Barbu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some cartoons are good, others not so much. But what this book shows is that the class problems and the relation teacher student did not change much since I have been a schoolboy.

[Anna Keating · Rating 5 out of 5]

My son loves The New Yorker cartoons and so do I so good times all around.

[Hannah Lang · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some were cute, some were dumb!

[Candance Doerr-Stevens · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun read to kick off the new school year. I wish there were more comics written from POV of teachers.

Used: Goodwill

[Rich Farrell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like the other topics in this collection, some are funny but few are thought-provoking. It’s very of the “Sunday Funnies” variety.

[Therese Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very funny school-related cartoons. An enjoyable interlude while I'm reading Nietzsche.

[Meg - A Bookish Affair · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am not a teacher but I have a lot of friends and a couple family members who were or are teachers (bless them! I so do not have the patience to be a teacher). However, as someone who went to school, I found a lot to love about these cartoons. They are witty, funny, and timely, just as you would expect the New Yorker to be.

[Nikki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick read. Very humorous. Mostly about middle school. Teachers and parents alike will doubtlessly enjoy and appreciate. I cracked up at just about every page, but was really hoping for some college cartoons.

[Ariana · Rating 3 out of 5]

A wonderful gift from a wonderful new friend.

[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Charming collection of cartoons featuring teachers and students. Personal favorite was of a teacher climbing out the window of her classroom illustrated by Booth.

[Nandakishore Mridula · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mildly amusing. A quick read.

[Gabriella Araujo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved it. The new Yorker is a great magazine with some of the best cartoons out there. As a teacher and a student I could relate to most of these situations.

[Gali · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh, at best. Some funny ones but quite a few were just "meh".

[Bryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fine collection with many real jewels, and as a teacher myself, I love it.

[Catherine Woodman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great collection from a classic source

[Brenda Noonan]

readalike to can't we talk about something more pleasant ( my pick )

[Arlie · Rating 4 out of 5]

An amusing way to pass some time.

[Nate · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting book with a few laughs out loud and many chuckles