Ripped from the headlines -- The New Yorker's "Daily Cartoon" Web feature debuts

by Ken

This week in his Wednesday e-newsletter-slash-blogpost New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff introduced a new Web-exclusive feature, "The Daily Cartoon." The new feature's introduction was apparently swallowed up by Hurricane Sandy. However, says Bob,

we’ve recovered our wits, and now one particular wit, the cartoonist David Sipress [whose work we've sampled here -- Ed.), will aid in the recovery from Sandy and from pre- and post-election fatigue by drawing a cartoon every weekday for a month. As you can see, David has everything serenely under control.

"These cartoons," Bob explains, "will be literally ripped from the day's headlines (and then literally carefully pasted back, because David’s wife gets pissed off when she finds the paper that way)."

Risking marital discord, David has agreed to go through this agonizing process, even if it means alimony payments. Well, that's a bit of an overstatement, but, as you can see, he's willing to make himself a nervous wreck so that your news-related anxieties can be soothed by the balm of laughter. Then, after David's tour of duty, another New Yorker cartoonist will step into the breach to deal with the flood of daily events. (Though hopefully no more actual floods.)

As of now there are three Daily Cartoons posted in a newyorker.com Web slide show:

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