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[Behemoth]

did they change editors?

[joethefoodie]

Every issue that arrives, the next day at breakfast I scan through all the cartoons. If there's anything that even garners a chuckle out of me, I pass it over the table to Significant Eater.

 

There hasn't been much passing lately.

 

But I did read to her (yesterday) the 2006 Nora Ephron piece entitled "My Cookbook Crushes," and we laughed heartily at a few of the late Ms. Ephron's observations.

[Wilfrid]

That issue seemed a bit pointless.  If you subscribe, you can read the entire archive.  Some of the pieces I knew. 

 

I disagree about the cartoons; nostalgia is at work.

[Wilfrid]

did they change editors?

 

A new cartoon editor last year, but the previous incumbent was around for 20 years, so it's not an explanation if people think the cartoons have been weak for some time.

[hollywood]

I thought someone named Annie Hall had something to do with the cartoons??

[Sneakeater]

I would vote over the last year or so.

[Behemoth]

That issue seemed a bit pointless. If you subscribe, you can read the entire archive. Some of the pieces I knew.

Somebody searched the archive, so I don’t have to!

The weakness of the cartoons started a year ago pretty much exactly.

[Wilfrid]

I’ve recently shared cartoons with people so I guess I like them.

Also, proof that I myself am a great cartoon editor, because a piece I commissioned from the wonderful (Brooklyn-based) Hilary Allison was just republished by The Nation. First one here.

https://www.thenatio...axonomy/oppart/

[Wilfrid]

The archive issue should be a free giveaway. I find it kind of annoying as a substitute for a regular issue.

[bloviatrix]

Bob Mankoff left last year and went to Esquire.

[StephanieL]

Love the Edward Gorey cover on this week's issue (to go with the article on Gorey inside).