Matthew Diffee has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 1999, and he edited the bestselling volumes of The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker. Diffee was honored by the National Cartoonists Society with the Reuben Award for Best Gag Cartoonist of the Year in 2014. Originally form Texas, Diffee now lives in Los Angeles but in a good way.
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“Diffee is a master of the single-panel cartoon, able to convey in one picture and few words a novel’s worth of wit.”
– Michael Ian Black, "New York Times Sunday Book Review"
"One of the great pleasures of being alive today is that we are able to witness the genius of Matt Diffee. What do I mean by that? Buy this book and see for yourself."
– Andy Borowitz
“Though I prefer mechanically made, computer generated cartoons, this collection of hand-drawn ones, produced by human thought, is outstanding. Matt is truly one of the funniest people in the rarified world of first-rate cartooning.”
– Steve Martin
“Matt Diffee’s book is so funny. How annoying is that?”
– Jim Gaffigan
“Densely rich and hilarious, like the brownies crazy Aunt Lena used to make.”
– Jack Handey
"Matt Diffee has a finely tuned radar for irony, hypocrisy and abject lunacy in the everyday world. What that radar picks up, he then draws with stunning skill, and the result is cartoon gold."
– Ed Helms
"This damn book by Diffee issimultaneously clever, hilarious, charming, and inventive. How I hate him forit."
– Dan Piraro, cartoonist of the syndicated comic strip "Bizarro"
"Hilarious, from beginning to end. Diffee is a one-liner laureate."
– Yoni Brenner, "New Yorker" humorist
"Matt Diffee is smart and funny. Put yourself in his hands, he can help you."
– Michael Kupperman, cartoonist and author
"This book confirms that Michael Jordan was the Matthew Diffee of basketball. See what I did there?"
– Drew Dernavich "New Yorker" cartoonist
"The witty cartoons and dry one-liners in the famed New Yorker cartoonist's collection will allegedly appeal to anyone who is both intelligent and beautiful. (Hint: This means you.)
– Entertainment Weekly
"Matt is a nice guy, but not so nice that you can’t loath him for his immense talent. I will alternately laugh and seethe."
– Mo Willems, author of "Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" and the “Elephant and Piggie” series
"Deliciously funny, wickedly clever, and drawn with endless wit and skill."
– Huffington Post
"Hilarious. Matthew Diffee is a master of conciseness. One drawing, a few words, and you'll be calling people over to show them what you just discovered. The introductions to the thematically organized chapters are superb examples of joke-writing as well."
– Philipp Goedicke, NPR.org
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