The New Yorker Said No, but These Cartoons Just May Make Your Day<br />The cartoons on view have a range of styles, sensibilities<br />and some unexpected bursts of color: One from Mitra Farmand shows three protesters holding blank placards as they shout, “We need markers!”; Lars Kenseth considers a different meaning of the roadway merging of automobiles; and Amy Kurzweil depicts Mr. and Mrs.<br />Each of the cartoonists has had work published in the magazine; Mr. Kenseth has sold 12 cartoons for print<br />and six for The New Yorker’s Daily Cartoons and Daily Shouts online sections.<br />“People end up with mounds of stuff they either have to put in the closet or self-publish.”<br />It wasn’t hard to find artists to contribute to the show, especially since a community had built up on social media,<br />where the cartoonists shared rejected work, sometimes soliciting advice on how to tweak an image or a joke.<br />“When you try to get into The New Yorker, you’re generating so much content and so much gets rejected,” Mr. Ostow said.<br />A similar group had formed in real life — among the friends<br />and cartoonists who pitch their work in person every Tuesday at The New Yorker offices at 1 World Trade Center.
