Comic Quotes by Robert Mankoff

8 Comic quotes by Robert Mankoff

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Robert Mankoff delivers a short, witty snapshot of humor, echoing his cartoonist’s eye for the absurd.

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People think you get one idea for a cartoon every week, and that's not the way it works. You usually get 10…

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One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

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The digital realm give cartoons and cartoonists more possibilities for exposure.

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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…

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To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting…

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I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

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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…

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Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon…

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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…

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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…

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'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.

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I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I'm going to stop here.

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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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The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have…

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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…

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There's usually nothing in a guy's joke in which we have to understand what's going on in someone else's mind.

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

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I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

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I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things,…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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