# Help me find this recent New Yorker cartoon **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-recent-new-yorker-cartoon/752576 "2016-04-18T18:15:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-recent-new-yorker-cartoon/752576/1 "2016-04-18T18:15:02Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Debs181](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Debs181](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debs181)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-recent-new-yorker-cartoon/752576/2 "2016-10-30T11:22:30Z")
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/](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!” ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-recent-new-yorker-cartoon/752576/3 "2016-10-31T18:35:12Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-recent-new-yorker-cartoon/752576/4 "2016-10-31T19:07:42Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-recent-new-yorker-cartoon/752576/5 "2016-11-01T07:48:17Z")
In this context, let me mention xkcd’s [Tech Support Cheat Sheet](https://www.xkcd.com/627/) And Chris Beetles [National pPortrait and Landscape galleries](http://www.chrisbeetles.com/gallery/cartoons/national-portrait-gallery-national-landscape-gallery.html) Also, from the time of DOS and the PC/XT [It’s never done that before](http://www.100bestwebsites.org/alt/silliness/its-never-done-that-before.htm) (The remake, because I can’t find the original on the web)