Help me find this recent New Yorker cartoon

Cafe Society
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My dad described a New Yorker magazine comic he saw recently … maybe a month or two back … as showing a young guy coming to visit his parents and them standing at the door waving their computers at him, obviously full of questions for him. I’d love to hang this at work, if I can find it. We’re all software developers and so we’re constantly called on to provide first tier tech support for our families. Does anyone know which issue contained this cartoon?

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I checked The New Yorker’s cartoon bank for the time period 10/1/2014-10/30/2016 to search for cartoons with keyword tags “computer” “home” and “parents”. I didn’t find a match quite like you described but it may be that your father was thinking of an Edward Koren cartoon which shows a boy with a laptop in hand walking past a sofa where some adults are seated and one woman has her hand up with finger pointed as if to pose a question. the caption is “Please - no technology questions”.

The metadata on the cartoon is below and it should be available for purchase from the Cartoon Bank at https://www.cartoonbank.com/

Publication Date:
2015-03-16
Image ID:
TCB-141577
Format:
6057 x 7420 Black & White JPEG
Artist:
Edward Koren
Credit:
Edward Koren The New Yorker Collection/The Cartoon Bank
Publication Name:
New Yorker
Keywords:
“Please—no technology questions!” Technology, Old People, Adolescents, Computer Illiterate
Caption:
“Please—no technology questions!”
“Please—no technology questions!”

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Darn. I have seen that cartoon in the past few months. The old folks are on the porch with a bunch of electronics cradled in their arms. I don’t read anything that has cartoons, so I bet it was linked from the SDMB.

Dennis

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I don’t recall seeing such a cartoon in any recent New Yorker, although I have to admit my half-Dane, half-rototiller puppy got ahold of two issues before I did. Are you sure it was that magazine?

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In this context, let me mention xkcd’s Tech Support Cheat Sheet
And Chris Beetles National pPortrait and Landscape galleries

Also, from the time of DOS and the PC/XT It’s never done that before (The remake, because I can’t find the original on the web)