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Robert Mankoff

American Artist

Born: 1944

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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. Robert Mankoff

One of the first comic things you do is imitate. Robert Mankoff

You First Imitate Comic Things

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 end to do that editing for them. Robert Mankoff

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 communicate some idea through the medium of cartooning. Just to be funny is... You know what, the things that you laugh hardest at aren't cartoons. Robert Mankoff

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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 wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context. Robert Mankoff

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Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong. Robert Mankoff

Needs Cartoon Wrong Each Right Amount

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

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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. Robert Mankoff

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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 offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste. Robert Mankoff

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

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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. Robert Mankoff

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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. Robert Mankoff

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