#GoodRead | A statistical analysis of New Yorker cartoons, and it's pretty depressing
Jessica Esch wrote "The New Yorker and Jessica Esch: Crowd Accountability Issue by Issue" for us in March, chronicling her ongoing tally of its women cartoonists, and it turns out that she's not the only one who's critical of The New Yorker cartoons' ongoing lack of balance, both with the cartoonists and the cartoons themselves.
"Someone did a statistical analysis of New Yorker cartoons, and it's actually pretty depressing":
Matt J. Michel and the series' other authors actually looked at real data — they coded every cartoon the magazine published in 2014 — and they came to some pretty depressing findings about the portrayal of nonwhite dudes in one of the country's most liberal magazines.