The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons is a prodigious,slip-cased,two-volume,1,600-page A-to-Z curation of cartoons from the magazine from 1924 to the present.Bob Mankoff – for two decades the cartoon editor of the New Yorker – organizes nearly 3,000 cartoons into more than 250 categories of recurring New Yorker themes and visual tropes,including cartoons on banana peels,meeting St.Peter,being stranded on a desert island,snowmen,lion tamers, Adam and Eve,the Grim Reaper – and dogs,of course.This is stunning gift for the millions of New Yorker readers and anyone looking for some humour in the evolution of social commentary.