Bob Abel, co-editor of The Funnies: An American Idiom, whose creds also include working for Humorama (in Mr. Abel’s words)”a pre-pubescent conglomerate of eight humor magazines” and Ad Lib (again, in Mr. Abel’s words) a publication “which featured cartoonists no one else was publishing very much” came out with this 9″x12″ hard cover collection of cartoons from many of the major publications of the day. A Sam Gross drawing adorns the cover (the book was published in 1974 by Dodd, Mead).
In his intro, Mr. Abel thanks the (now defunct) Cartoonist Guild for its professional assistance, especially Sam Gross, who was the organization’s president at the time. Almost all of the cartoonists in the collection were Guild members.
The cartoons are organized by themed chapters such as this one below, featuring a drawing by the great Ed Koren:
As there’s no Index of the contributors I’ll just mention a few other New Yorker cartoonists whose work appears: Jack Ziegler, Bill Woodman, Mary Gauerke, Eldon Dedini, Peter Porges, Mort Gerberg, Herbert Goldberg, Lee Lorenz, Ed Fisher, Sidney Harris, C.E.M., Al Ross, John Ruge, Alan Dunn, Robert Weber, Bernard Schoenbaum. Joseph Farris, Ed Arno, Henry Martin…
The books does nicely as a time capsule of the cartoon scene just as a new era was about to begin at The New Yorker. Jack Ziegler is one of the “young bloods” making an appearance. He broke into the magazine that very year, upsetting the apple cart for the better.