The New Yorker Book of All-New Cat Cartoons

The New Yorker Book of Cartoons

by The New Yorker

Cats again? You can never have too many . . .

Drawn from the hundreds of cartoons published in The New Yorker in the seven years since The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons--as well as from fabulous older cats--this new collection is as hilarious and irresistible as the first.

The cartoons provide a cat's-eye view of the world and the important things in food, sleep, love and affection, adventure, food, good friends and doggy enemies, back rubs, and food. We see the essence of the feline world captured with verve, humor, and warmth by classic New Yorker artists such as Ed Koren, George Booth, William Steig, Saul Steinberg, Lee Lorenz, Robert Mankoff, Mick Stevens, Danny Shanahan, and Bruce Eric Kaplan.

Purrfectly divine!

Genres: Cats, Humor, Animals, Comic Strips, Comics, Cartoon, Nonfiction

96 pages, Hardcover

First published December 16, 1997

About the author

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry published by Condé Nast Publications. Starting as a weekly in the mid-1920s, the magazine is now published forty-seven times per year, with five of these issues covering two-week spans.

Reviews

[Gary Butler · Rating 4 out of 5]

1st book read in 2018.

Number 299 out of 661 on my all time book list.

High brow cat humor.

[Diana · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the New Yorker cartoons and especially the cat ones. This was a decent collection without being earth shattering. Special mention to Australian cartoonist Victoria Roberts who appears here.

[Cathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this, but I generally find New Yorker cartoons to be funnier than this one. I think I'll end up giving it to one of my sisters, who might resemble the cat lady. Just kidding.

My favorite one was "Honey, I don't want to hide anything from you. I collect pictures of cats in my spare time."

[Jen · Rating 3 out of 5]

meh. a few were funny.

[Black Tea Lady ☕️📚 · Rating 4 out of 5]

El humor del New Yorker no siempre es tan obvio, a veces hace referencia a situaciones políticas o sociales exclusivas de Nueva York o de Norte América y para esto hay que estar al tanto de las noticias locales. El humor del New Yorker siempre ha sido muy sofisticado y las ilustraciones captan la idea de un modo que no solo divierte sino que hace reflexionar. Un tomo que será del agrado de los amantes de los gatos pero también del enamorado de la atmósfera y sofisticación newyorkina.

[Hope · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with all New Yorker Cartoon books, this is a quick read. The quality of the cartoons vary, in my opinion. Some are kind of obscure; Some are clever; Some are groan-worthy. Overall, it's an easy read, but not something that's amazing, by any means. I picked up my copy at the library.
Be warned, as well, that not all of the cartoons in this Cat Cartoons book are flattering to cats- something I found strange, as I'm not sure that people who dislike cats would be picking up this book.

[Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

Coming out in 1997, seven years after their first cat cartoon collection. No editor indicated and I can see why whoever did it wouldn’t want to claim credit, as New Yorker cartoon collections go it’s not one of their better efforts and at 86 pages, one of the skimpier ones.

[Annburnett · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute and easy to read cartoon book about cats. Lot of laughs to be had here.

[Stella · Rating 3 out of 5]

Slightly funnier than the first New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons, and an interesting mix of art styles. But frankly there are now much funnier cat books out there.

[Anne · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fun book for cat lovers. Every cartoon had me grinning.

[Candyce Sweet · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was expecting more, to be honest.

[Gabriel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hahahahaaha!

[Patricia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yay cats!

[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

more classic cat comics from the New Yorker

[Frances Harris · Rating 5 out of 5]

You can't have too many cats!

[AnnaRose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great for the cat lover!

[Helen · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a book full of cat cartoons from the New Yorker. What's not to love?

[Leslie · Rating 4 out of 5]

pretty funny!

[Bryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Somewhat disappointing. Some funny cartoons, as always, but not as many as I expect from the New Yorker. Too many were just cliche.

[Molly · Rating 3 out of 5]

The New Yorker employs cat people. Hence, cat cartoons.

[Rex Libris · Rating 4 out of 5]

For the most part they are funny, some far funnier than others.