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20 quotes by Robert Mankoff

Robert "Bob" Mankoff (born May 1, 1944 ) is an American cartoonist, editor, and author. He is the current cartoon editor for The New Yorker magazine. Before he succeeded Lee Lorenz as cartoon editor, Mankoff was a cartoonist for The New Yorker for twenty years.
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Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

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One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity... →

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Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying... →

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The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing... →

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I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

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I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.

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I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

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There are no cartoons about happy marriages.

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I think funny is just the foundation. I don't really think, to some extent, funny is the absolute most important thing. It should also... →

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There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you... →

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Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how it evolves over time more quickly... →

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Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.

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The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

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