People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I'm going to stop here. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
There's usually nothing in a guy's joke in which we have to understand what's going on in someone else's mind. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
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. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things,… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
