--- title: "18 Cartoon Quotes By Robert Mankoff" description: "18 Cartoon quotes by Robert Mankoff. Plus more from Robert Mankoff and more Cartoon sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/858/robert-mankoff-12259_cartoon_the-new-yorker-didn-t-invent-the-magazin_92002.png" --- > ['The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/the-new-yorker-didn-t-invent-the-magazine-cartoon-but-it-did-really/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/858/robert-mankoff-12259_cartoon_the-new-yorker-didn-t-invent-the-magazin_92002.png) > [The digital realm give cartoons and cartoonists more possibilities for exposure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/the-digital-realm-give-cartoons-and-cartoonists-more-possibilities/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/748/robert-mankoff-12259_cartoon_the-digital-realm-give-cartoons-and-cart_973506.png) > [There are no cartoons about happy marriages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/there-are-no-cartoons-about-happy-marriages/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/005/robert-mankoff-12259_about_there-are-no-cartoons-about-happy-marria_2809970.png) > [Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/each-cartoon-needs-the-right-amount-of-wrong/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/robert-mankoff-12259_amount_each-cartoon-needs-the-right-amount-of-w_2962963.png) > [I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/i-was-the-founder-of-the-cartoon-bank-in-the-90s-i-was-interested-in/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/beb/robert-mankoff-12259_bank_i-was-the-founder-of-the-cartoon-bank-in_2096340.png) > [I have a cartoon where the guy is pretty much, he's a regular-sized guy, but he's the size of the island. He's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/i-have-a-cartoon-where-the-guy-is-pretty-much-he-s-a-regular-sized/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fb/robert-mankoff-12259_cartoon_i-have-a-cartoon-where-the-guy-is-pretty_1021748.png) > [Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/cartoons-are-like-fruit-flies-biologists-use-fruit-flies-because/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ca/robert-mankoff-12259_because_cartoons-are-like-fruit-flies-biologists_384875.png) > [You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/you-do-have-to-put-in-a-lot-time-to-get-good-at-anything-and-than/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ff/robert-mankoff-12259_art_you-do-have-to-put-in-a-lot-time-to-get_662340.png) > [I'm very fond of the strictly visual cartoons I did when I was breaking in in the 1970's. Over time I migrated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/i-m-very-fond-of-the-strictly-visual-cartoons-i-did-when-i-was/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f53/robert-mankoff-12259_approach_i-m-very-fond-of-the-strictly-visual-car_1531910.png) > [When you look back at the older cartoons, they're very much more observational cartoons. And the cartoon, the people in the cartoons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/when-you-look-back-at-the-older-cartoons-they-re-very-much-more/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d86/robert-mankoff-12259_cartoon_when-you-look-back-at-the-older-cartoons_263890.png) > [The most popular cartoon of mine is a guy on the phone looking at his appointment book and saying "No, Thursday's out.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/the-most-popular-cartoon-of-mine-is-a-guy-on-the-phone-looking-at-his/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc2/robert-mankoff-12259_appointments_the-most-popular-cartoon-of-mine-is-a-gu_546332.png) > [I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/i-will-pick-a-raft-of-cartoons-and-then-later-it-ll-come-time-to-run/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b35/robert-mankoff-12259_anymore_i-will-pick-a-raft-of-cartoons-and-then_66145.png) > [People think you get one idea for a cartoon every week, and that's not the way it works. You usually get 10…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/people-think-you-get-one-idea-for-a-cartoon-every-week-and-that-s-not/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/robert-mankoff-12259_cartoon_people-think-you-get-one-idea-for-a-cart_465462.png) > [None of the cartoons that I ever did are basically, if they're about sex, they're about sex in sort of this, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/none-of-the-cartoons-that-i-ever-did-are-basically-if-they-re-about/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56d/robert-mankoff-12259_cartoon_none-of-the-cartoons-that-i-ever-did-are_3026713.png) > [Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/cartoons-often-that-you-do-for-the-new-yorker-don-t-appear-for-months/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/040/robert-mankoff-12259_cartoon_cartoons-often-that-you-do-for-the-new-y_2958097.png) > [Sometimes you're noodling around with a sketch and something incongruous in the drawing calls forth the caption and other times you think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/sometimes-you-re-noodling-around-with-a-sketch-and-something/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/776/robert-mankoff-12259_caption_sometimes-you-re-noodling-around-with-a_3152497.jpg) > [I think The New Yorker's cartoons aren't very political because the people who do the cartoons aren't awfully political people, and they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/i-think-the-new-yorker-s-cartoons-aren-t-very-political-because-the/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b04/robert-mankoff-12259_admire_i-think-the-new-yorker-s-cartoons-aren-t_1336749.jpg) > [We have to know cognitively what another mind is thinking and also empathically what they're feeling. And of course, in general, that's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/we-have-to-know-cognitively-what-another-mind-is-thinking-and-also/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efd/robert-mankoff-12259_cartoon_we-have-to-know-cognitively-what-another_1499990.png) ## Other authors on Cartoon ## More by Robert Mankoff > [I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/i-will-pick-a-raft-of-cartoons-and-then-later-it-ll-come-time-to-run/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) > [Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/humor-of-all-types-is-notoriously-subjective-that-s-true-not-only/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) > ['The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/the-new-yorker-didn-t-invent-the-magazine-cartoon-but-it-did-really/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) > [I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I'm going to stop here.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/i-have-been-married-three-times-and-it-just-keeps-better-and-better/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) > [The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/the-line-between-humor-and-bad-taste-is-your-audience-in-which-some/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) > [The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/the-generations-that-were-exposed-to-sitcom-have-the-people-actually/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) > [When you look back at the older cartoons, they're very much more observational cartoons. And the cartoon, the people in the cartoons are not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/when-you-look-back-at-the-older-cartoons-they-re-very-much-more/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) > [There's usually nothing in a guy's joke in which we have to understand what's going on in someone else's mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/there-s-usually-nothing-in-a-guy-s-joke-in-which-we-have-to/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/i-m-pretty-adept-with-computers-and-photoshop-for-my-blog-and-i-found/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) > [Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/cartoons-are-like-fruit-flies-biologists-use-fruit-flies-because/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) > [I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/i-know-everybody-wants-humor-to-be-subversive-and-speak-truth-to/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) > [I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/i-think-what-jewish-culture-taught-me-and-what-the-and-jewish-culture/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) > [People think you get one idea for a cartoon every week, and that's not the way it works. You usually get 10 or 15,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/people-think-you-get-one-idea-for-a-cartoon-every-week-and-that-s-not/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) > [I'm making fun of myself and I think I'm making fun of all men in our desperate, desperate attempt to understand the people we're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/i-m-making-fun-of-myself-and-i-think-i-m-making-fun-of-all-men-in-our/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) > [The most popular cartoon of mine is a guy on the phone looking at his appointment book and saying "No, Thursday's out. How about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/the-most-popular-cartoon-of-mine-is-a-guy-on-the-phone-looking-at-his/) [Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cartoon/robert-mankoff/#itemlist", "name": "18 Cartoon Quotes By Robert Mankoff", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Mankoff" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/the-new-yorker-didn-t-invent-the-magazine-cartoon-but-it-did-really/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/858/robert-mankoff-12259_cartoon_the-new-yorker-didn-t-invent-the-magazin_92002.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/858/robert-mankoff-12259_cartoon_the-new-yorker-didn-t-invent-the-magazin_92002.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/858/robert-mankoff-12259_cartoon_the-new-yorker-didn-t-invent-the-magazin_92002.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.” — Robert Mankoff", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The digital realm give cartoons and cartoonists more possibilities for exposure.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Mankoff" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/the-digital-realm-give-cartoons-and-cartoonists-more-possibilities/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/748/robert-mankoff-12259_cartoon_the-digital-realm-give-cartoons-and-cart_973506.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/748/robert-mankoff-12259_cartoon_the-digital-realm-give-cartoons-and-cart_973506.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/748/robert-mankoff-12259_cartoon_the-digital-realm-give-cartoons-and-cart_973506.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The digital realm give cartoons and cartoonists more possibilities for exposure.” — Robert Mankoff", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are no cartoons about happy marriages.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Mankoff" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/there-are-no-cartoons-about-happy-marriages/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/005/robert-mankoff-12259_about_there-are-no-cartoons-about-happy-marria_2809970.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/005/robert-mankoff-12259_about_there-are-no-cartoons-about-happy-marria_2809970.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/005/robert-mankoff-12259_about_there-are-no-cartoons-about-happy-marria_2809970.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There are no cartoons about happy marriages.” — Robert Mankoff", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Mankoff" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/each-cartoon-needs-the-right-amount-of-wrong/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/robert-mankoff-12259_amount_each-cartoon-needs-the-right-amount-of-w_2962963.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/robert-mankoff-12259_amount_each-cartoon-needs-the-right-amount-of-w_2962963.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/robert-mankoff-12259_amount_each-cartoon-needs-the-right-amount-of-w_2962963.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.” — Robert Mankoff", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. 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