American - Artist | 1944 -
Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.
Robert Mankoff
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I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.
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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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The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.
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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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'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.
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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, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.
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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 than we can with a form like the novel.
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