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Matthew ("Matt") Diffee is an American cartoonist whose works appear in the New Yorker magazine. ==Biography== Diffee was born in Denton, Texas. His father was an airline pilot, and he has a background in art and stand-up comedy which he still performs from time to time. As a struggling artist he took various day jobs, including road work, construction, and as a convenience store cashier. Diffee moved from Boston, Massachusetts to New York and began contributing to the ''New Yorker'' in 1999, after winning a cartoon contest the magazine and the Algonquin Hotel sponsored for an all-cartoon issue, in the process meeting Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor, in person. Mankoff encouraged Diffee to contribute to the magazine. After three weeks of submission Mankoff chose one cartoon, which became Diffee's first published work. For the next year Diffee submitted fifteen cartoons per week; the magazine published a total of four.〔 The next year Diffee sold eight cartoons to the magazine, each at the standard rate of $675. Diffee's first book, ''The Rejection Collection'', was a compilation of cartoons by various artists that had been rejected from the magazine along with questionnaires and portraits of each artist. In an interview he noted that 90% of even a successful freelance cartoonist's works are rejected, and that most cartoonists are known only for their work, not their personal lives.〔 Many rejected cartoons are good, he explained, but inappropriate for the magazine because they are politically incorrect or sexually suggestive: "...the idea that the cartoonist did it, and actually pitched it to the New Yorker, makes it even funnier to me, like ‘what were they thinking’?"〔 As of the book's publication the magazine had published more than 100 of Diffee's cartoons, a significant accomplishment for a young cartoonist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher = Huffington Post )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Beaver Creek Ski Resort )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matthew Diffee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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