The Rejection Collection Vol 2

Author : Matthew Diffee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781416938712

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The Rejection Collection by Matthew Diffee Pdf

Each week about fifty New Yorker cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred cartoons for no more than twenty spots in the magazine. Arguably the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in the world create a bunch of cartoons every week that never see the light of day. These rejects were piling up in the dusty corners of studios all over the country. Sam Gross, who has been contributing since 1962, has more than 12,000 rejected cartoons. (Seriously. He's been numbering every single cartoon he's ever submitted to The New Yorker since the very beginning.) Enter editor Matthew Diffee. He tapped his fellow cartoonists, asking them to rescue these hilarious lost gems. From the artists' stacks of all-time favorite rejects, Diffee handpicked the standouts -- the cream of the crap -- and created The Rejection Collection, a place where good ideas go when they die. Too risqué, silly, or weird for The New Yorker, the cartoons in this book offer something no other collection has: They have never been seen in print until now. With a foreword by New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff that explains the sound judgment, respectability, and scruples not found anywhere in these pages, and handwritten questionnaires that introduce the quirky character of each artist, The Rejection Collection will appeal to fans of The New Yorker...and to anyone with a slightly sick sense of humor.

Author : Matthew Diffee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781416951162

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The Rejection Collection Vol. 2 by Matthew Diffee Pdf

Each week The New Yorker receives more than five hundred submissions from its regular cartoonists, who are all vying for one of the twenty coveted spots in the magazine. So what happens to the 75 percent of cartoons that don't make the cut? Some go back in a drawer, others go up on the refrigerator or into the filing cabinet...but the very best of all the rejects can be found right here in these pages. The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap is the ultimate scrap heap of creative misfires -- from the lowbrow and the dirty to the politically incorrect and the weird, these rejects represent the best of the worst...in the best possible sense of the word. Handpicked by editor Matthew Diffee, these hilarious cartoons are accompanied by handwritten questionnaires and photographed self-portraits, providing a rare glimpse into the minds of the artists behind the rejection. With appendices that explore the top ten reasons why cartoons are rejected and examine the solitary nature of the job of cartooning -- plus a special bonus section of questions asked of and answered by cartoon editor Robert Mankoff -- this sequel to The Rejection Collection offers even deeper insight into the exercise in frustration, patience, and amusement that is being a New Yorker cartoonist. Warped, wicked, and wildly funny, The Rejection Collection Vol. 2 will appeal to every New Yorker fan -- and everyone with a taste for the absurd.

Author : Matthew Diffee
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780761168669

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The Best of the Rejection Collection by Matthew Diffee Pdf

It’s the best of the worst: 293 of the funniest cartoons rejected by The New Yorker but luckily for us, now in paperback and available to enjoy. The Rejection Collection brings together some of The New Yorker’s brightest talents—Roz Chast, Gahan Wilson, Sam Gross, Jack Zeigler, David Sipress, and more—and reveals their other side. Their dark side. Their juvenile side. Their sick side. Their naughty side. Their outrageous side. And what a treat. Ventriloquist dummy cartoons. Operating room cartoons. Bring your daughter to work day cartoons (the stripper, the prison guard on death row). Lots of couples in bed, quite a few coffins, wise-cracking animals—an obsessive’s plumbing of the weird, the scary, the off-the-wall, and done so without restraint. Every week The New Yorker receives 500 cartoon submissions, and rejects a great majority—mostly, of course, for not being funny enough. There’s no question why these were rejected, and it’s not for lack of laughs. One can almost hear Eustace Tilley sniffing, We are not amused.

Author : Matthew Diffee
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781523517787

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The Best of the Rejection Collection by Matthew Diffee Pdf

The best of the worst: these cartoons rejected by The New Yorker were deemed too dumb, too weird, or too naughty—but not for lack of laughs! Every week, hundreds and hundreds of cartoons pour into The New Yorker. Most are rejected. Doesn’t matter how big a deal the cartoonist is, either. Roz Chast, David Sipress, Kim Warp, Sam gross, Ed Steed, Emily Flake, Navied Mahdavian, or Mary Lawton—if the work in question is too weird, too naughty, too juvenile, or too dark, it’s out. Luckily for us, Matthew Diffee has been bravely sifting through the circular file to rescue the best of the worst. Here are 297 cartoons in a revised second edition featuring more than 50 new cartoons—even better, even worse! The cartoon set-ups may be familiar—a couple in bed, a few people stranded on a desert island, a doctor and patient in an examining room—but the joke are anything but, with twists so unexpected, you can’t help but laugh out loud.

Author : Art Sobczak
Publisher : Business By Phone Inc
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1881081036

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How to Sell More, in Less Time, with No Rejection by Art Sobczak Pdf

Author : Laura Kightlinger
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0380810468

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Quick Shots of False Hope by Laura Kightlinger Pdf

A bright young comic talent presents 18 bitterly funny--and frighteningly universal--tales of rejection, humiliation, and misfortune.

Author : Matthew Diffee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781476748740

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Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People by Matthew Diffee Pdf

A collection from the award-winning cartoonist for the New Yorker features his funniest work from the past 15 years, as well as brand-new cartoons and sketches, visual riffs and illustrated one-liners.

Author : Alana Dyer
Publisher : Rejection Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1998261050

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Rejection on the Full Moon by Alana Dyer Pdf

Soulless - werewolves who have turned rogue with no humanity left, giving in to their beastly urges. Rejection - an act in which your soulmate rejects the mate bond, causing immense pain to the rejected. These are the challenges Amberle Crest must overcome after becoming an outcast amongst the wolves her age due to an event outside of her control. When her mate rejects her on her eighteenth birthday, Amberle realizes that living in a pack where the majority would rather use her as a slave than treat her as an equal is not worth the pain. She becomes the notorious wolf, Fire Foot, vowing that everyone would regret how they treated her, as she leaves her pack in the past. Now a ghost forgotten by those that tormented her, Amberle does whatever it takes to survive as a lone wolf. A fateful day changes her lonely life to one full of happiness and hope--until ghosts from her own past call for aid in ridding their pack of the Soulless who threatens all wolf kind. Faced with new friends, old foes, and the threat of a building army, will Amberle be able to fight the ghosts of her past to cherish the pack she has found or will an old mate claim her before a second chance mate can show her what being treasured by someone is all about?

Author : Bill Shapiro
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Letters
ISBN : 9780307459640

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Other People's Rejection Letters by Bill Shapiro Pdf

Shapiro presents a colorful panoply of rejection letters--many from famous people including A-Rod, Jimi Hendrix, and Andy Warhol--that when taken together offer humor, insight, and the comfort of shared experience.

Author : John-Paul Byrne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798638911058

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The Beginners Guide to Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria by John-Paul Byrne Pdf

Do you suffer from intense feelings of rejection? Do you experience deep emotional and physical intensity that is manifested without warning? Maybe you know someone who seems to be overly sensitive to perceived or real rejection and then presents irrational behaviour?RSD stands for Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. It can seriously impact the quality of life of an individual. If you experience intense emotional and/or physical pain when you perceive rejection, then you may have RSD. Whilst it is commonly attributed to those who have ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), and is not an officially recognised mental health disorder, the author felt it necessary to educate and help sufferers.This book will introduce you to RSD and help you understand what it is. You will discover who it affects and how it feels to suffer from it. The Beginners Guide to Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, the first book in the series Understanding and Identifying Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, will also teach you what causes RSD, how rejection is really triggered, behaviours that it presents, treatments and next steps.This book has been written by someone who has experienced the challenges, intensity, inner turmoil and destructive impacts to relationships and well being as a result of having Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria. Written from the experience of an RSD sufferer with a keen analytical, logical approach to solving problems, a passion for language and communication; this book is easy to read and can be used to educate yourself or as a tool to support someone else who has RSD. It is possible whilst having RSD to nurture a sense of being OK in the present moment. As stated, RSD is highly comorbid in other mental health conditions such as ADHD. This book intentionally focuses on RSD as there is very limited written material for RSD in isolation and yet would be valuable to so many sufferers.Those who suffer with RSD live an internalised experience of deep rejection. This internal experience is manifested at quantum speeds, with deep emotional pain and intensity experienced almost instantly with little understanding of how the mind got there so quickly. The only control we have is internal. The reader is asked to believe in the possible and suspend any beliefs that RSD is a chemical brain imbalance that cannot be improved or thrived from.The author shares with you, that this book is written as much for himself as it is for You. Quantifying, verbalising, analysing and disseminating his experiences enabled the discovery of an approach to circumvent RSD which is taught in later series he writes on this topic. The accepted norm of chemical brain dysfunction is that we can do nothing about it. The author, whilst recognising that this may be true, challenges the collective acceptance by presenting a model based approach to improving the lives of RSD sufferers.

Author : Jia Jiang
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804141390

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Rejection Proof by Jia Jiang Pdf

An entertaining and inspiring account of conquering the fear of rejection, offering a completely new perspective on how to turn a no into a yes. Jia Jiang came to the United States with the dream of being the next Bill Gates. But despite early success in the corporate world, his first attempt to pursue his entrepreneurial dream ended in rejection. Jia was crushed, and spiraled into a period of deep self doubt. But he realized that his fear of rejection was a bigger obstacle than any single rejection would ever be, and he needed to find a way to cope with being told no without letting it destroy him. Thus was born his "100 days of rejection" experiment, during which he willfully sought rejection on a daily basis--from requesting a lesson in sales from a car salesman (no) to asking a flight attendant if he could make an announcement on the loud speaker (yes) to his famous request to get Krispy Kreme doughnuts in the shape of Olympic rings (yes, with a viral video to prove it). Jia learned that even the most preposterous wish may be granted if you ask in the right way, and shares the secret of successful asking, how to pick targets, and how to tell when an initial no can be converted into something positive. But more important, he learned techniques for steeling himself against rejection and ways to develop his own confidence--a plan that can't be derailed by a single setback. Filled with great stories and valuable insight, Rejection Proof is a fun and thoughtful examination of how to overcome fear and dare to live more boldly.

Author : Matthew Diffee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781476748771

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Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People by Matthew Diffee Pdf

An NPR Best Book of 2015 Finally, a book that’s not for everyone! From award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee—editor of The Rejection Collection and the “de facto leader of a young generation of cartoonists”(The Wall Street Journal)—a hilarious mix of cartoons, visual riffs, and illustrated one liners that will appeal to anyone who is beautiful and intelligent. For almost fifteen years, Matthew Diffee’s uniquely funny single-panel cartoons have gussied up the pages of The New Yorker, winning him countless fans, big shot friends, and a pile of hilarious material he’s never used. Yet shockingly, a small sector of the population is not enamored with his work. Diffee has met some of these people and reports that they are, without exception, dumb and ugly, whereas the people who enjoy his work are just the opposite. In fact, the smarter and more attractive people are, the more they tend to appreciate Diffee’s humor. This book is for them. This collection contains Diffee’s funniest drawings and writings from the past decade as well as all-new cartoons and sketches organized into categories that will appeal to smart attractive people in all walks of life, based on profession and circumstance: smart attractive Medical Professionals, sharp and good-looking Old People; beautiful geniuses in Prison; brainy handsome Lumberjacks; and more. Are you an alluring well-read utensil user? Well, there’s a chapter just for you! If you’re a fan of Demetri Martin and Jack Handey, or if you happen to be George Clooney or Natalie Portman, Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People will leave you laughing your smart attractive ass off.

Author : Larry Diangi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Identity (Psychology)
ISBN : 8188452696

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Over Coming Rejection Will Make You Rich by Larry Diangi Pdf

Overcoming Rejection will help you to become free from the effects of rejection forever, live your dreams and fulfill your highest purpose. Filled with practical principles, inspiring stories and liberating thoughts that will help you to overcome all forms of rejection and reach your highest level of personal and professional freedom.

Author : James R. Sherman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 093553802X

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Rejection by James R. Sherman Pdf

Author : Gary Lawrence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578992027

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Rejection Junkies by Gary Lawrence Pdf

Most people are. They have allowed emotional energy thieves (people, places, and even things) to plug into them and drain them of well-being, health, and joy. The sad thing is that nothing changes if nothing changes. So, if you're tired of the same old mental, emotional, spiritual, and financial bondage of the past-and who isn't?-you can break free and create a bright future. This book is written just for you.Through real-life stories of "Rejection Junkies" who have found emotional freedom, you'll:Get acquainted with Dr. G and the powerful principles he's shared with thousandsDiscover new truths about yourself you never knew existedLearn how to effectively apply the knowledge you will learnEmbrace, incorporate, and execute new principles in practical waysGain power over your past in ways you never imagined!Just remember: those who study all and remain ignorant of themselves miss the greatest education of all. So what are you waiting for?