Tuesday, December 29, 2009

The Economy in Cartoons

(New Yorker)

(Tom Cheney, The New Yorker)

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(Christopher Weyant, The New Yorker)

We page through New Yorker cartoons featuring bankers on ledges, Humpty Dumpty sitting on a Wall Street sign and a father laying off his wife and kids with New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff.

Before he was editor, Mankoff worked as a cartoonist for the New Yorker for 20 years.

He says that “tragedy plus time equals comedy.”

Mankoff has compiled the new book “On the Money: The Economy in Cartoons 1925-2009.”

(New Yorker)

(Sam Gross, The New Yorker)

(P.C. Vey, The New Yorker)

(P.C. Vey, The New Yorker)

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Friday, May 18, 2012
The Appian Road, in the Monti Aurunci area of Italy. (Robert Kaster/University of Chicago Press)

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(Michael M. Phillips/Wall Street Journal)

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Musician John Fullbright at Here & Now studios at WBUR in Boston. (Jesse Costa/Here & Now)

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