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In his office, Robert Mankoff — cartoon editor of the New Yorker magazine — pulls me away from the drawing board in front of his chair to a nearby computer. He wants to point out a very ...
NEW YORK — When Bob Mankoff, the 69-year-old cartoon editor of The New Yorker, decided to write an illustrated memoir — "while I still have memory to memoir with" — he says there was no ...
THE MOST FAMOUS line Bob Mankoff has ever written, as spoken by a cartoon executive at a desk, is: “No, Thursday’s out. How about never — is never good for you?” So it’s fitting that ...
NEARLY THREE decades ago, Bob Mankoff hit upon the idea of launching a revenue-generating website of rejected gag cartoons, and by the end of the ‘90s, his successful Cartoon Bank website was ...
In his new book, How About Never – Is Never Good For You? My Life in Cartoons, Bob Mankoff cites E.B. White, the celebrated essayist and children's novelist, who once warned, "Humor can be ...
As cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff simultaneously warms and breaks the hearts of cartoonists on a weekly basis. In the documentary Very Semi-Serious: A Partially Thorough Portrait ...
Bob Mankoff was the cartoon editor of The New Yorker from 1997 to 2017. The Iranian director’s Palme d’Or-winning thriller, “It Was Just an Accident,” set the tone for a festival defined ...
Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker, will give a public talk at Washington and Lee University on May 18, at 4:30 p.m. at Stackhouse Theater in Elrod Commons. The title of Mankoff’s ...
Not that it was completely their idea — Bob Mankoff, the former cartoon editor of the New Yorker, actually suggested it after taking notice of Witte and Hesner’s blog, “Cartoon Companion.” ...