Send Help!: A Collection of Marooned Cartoons [Hardcover]

A hilarious collection of desert island cartoons from New Yorker cartoonists Jon Adams and Ellis Rosen to help us feel isolated. . . together.

This timely reflection on isolation brings together the best of a beloved genre, featuring an array of desert cartoons done in the signature single-panel style of a New Yorker cartoon. Whether you’re feeling marooned in too-close quarters with a loved one, are frantically dreaming up ways to escape from your own quarantine island, or are simply feeling nostalgic for palm trees and sand, these cartoons are sure to make you smile–and we could all use a laugh right now.

Drawn from a diverse collection of contributors, these humorous drawings are an essential addition to any coffee table collection, and bring a much-needed dose of levity to the circumstances we all find ourselves in.Jon Adamsis aNew YorkerandMAD Magazinecartoonist based in San Francisco. He has created comics for McSweeney’s, Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Wired, and Fantagraphics, written animated shorts for MTV, and created illustrations for Netflix, Bloomsbury, Chronicle Books, California Sunday,Sunset Magazine, Johns Hopkins Magazine, and Womens Wear Daily, among others. His work has appeared onLate Night With Seth Meyers, Comedy Central’s @midnight, andCBS Sunday Morning. 

Ellis Rosenis a cartoonist and illustrator living in Brooklyn, NY. His work has appeared in theNew Yorker, the New York Times,MAD Magazine, theWashington Post,Wired, theParis ReviewandAir Mail. He has also done several comics for the Daily Shouts section at TheNewYorker.com.  He is the illustrator of a children’s chapter book,Woundabout, from Little, Brown and a contributor to the Eisner-nominated graphic anthologyYiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land.