One of the 74 New Yorker cartoons that appear in cartoon editor Bob Mankoff's slide-show response to his call for readers to name their all-time favorite cartoon.by KenWe eavesdropped a couple of weeks ago when New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff named his 11 favorite New Yorker cartoons. At the same time, Bob issued a call to readers to e-mail him their favorites, offering up the resources of The Cartoon Bank to enable readers to search out that favorite cartoon. He promised to make a slide show of the submissions, and this week he posted it.Bob specifies that the 74 cartoons included comprise "readers' favorite cartoons."
I should say some readers' favorites -- the ones who responded to my request. If you don't find your favorite here, you have only yourself to blame. You could have e-mailed your pick to me, but you couldn't be bothered, and now you'll have to put up with the darlings of others. Look, it could be worse: it could be pictures of their kids.
Readers who fall into the latter category will have to answer to their own consciences. Meanwhile, from among the 74 nominees, I've picked -- hardly more than at random -- the five you see above and below. *For a "Sunday Classics" fix anytime, visit the stand-alone "Sunday Classics with Ken."
