Event Listing - Literary Arts

Mon Nov 19, 2007

Matthew Diffee & Robert Mankoff

In conversation with Steven Winn

Location	Date and Time
Herbst Theatre 401 Van Ness Ave. San Francisco, CA 94102 map cross street: McAllister district: Civic Center	Mon Nov 19, 2007 (8 PM)

Description

Matthew Diffee is one of the most prolific of The New Yorker's new generation of cartoonists, having published over a hundred cartoons in the magazine since 1999. The Texas-native also edited The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, And Never Will See, In The New Yorker. A compendium of thirty New Yorker cartoonists' favorite work turned down by the magazine, The Rejection Collection includes cartoons by Leo Cullum, Gahan Wilson, Drew Dernavich, and Sam Gross. Diffee is also the co-founder of "The Rejection Show," a monthly Off-Broadway event in New York featuring the rejected work of otherwise successful comedic writers and performers.

For the past decade, Robert Mankoff has been rejecting and accepting cartoons as the Cartoon Editor for The New Yorker. Mankoff also founded and runs the magazine's online component "The Cartoon Bank," a licensing, syndication, and archive business, which is now the largest computerized archive of its kind. Mankoff sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1977, and has been published regularly in the magazine ever since. He is the author of The Naked Cartoonist: A Way to Enhance Your Creativity, a combination memoir, how-to, abridged history, and manifesto for the art and craft of cartooning.