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How Hard Is It To Get a Cartoon Into The New Yorker?
Hard.
By James Sturm
Posted Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011, at 3:18 AM ET

It was a Tuesday in July and I was sitting in the "cartoonist lounge" on the 20th floor of the Conde Nast building in Times Square with an envelope containing 10 drawings: my first cartoon submissions to The New Yorker. Every Tuesday is judgment day, the day Robert Mankoff, the magazine's cartoon editor, meets with cartoonists face to face.

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James Sturm is the director of The Center for Cartoon Studies. His most recent graphic novel is Market Day.

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