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Robert Mankoff
American
Artist
Born:
1944
About
Cartoon
Cartoons
Humor
People
You
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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
Life
Time
Topic
Follow
Cartoonists
Cartoons
Given
More
Idea
Over
Like
Comic
How
Quickly
Than
Any
Form
Create
Cycle
Many
Novel
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
Me
Editing
Own
Stage
Believe
Other
Humorists
Out
Cartoonists
Through
Stuff
Editor
Go
End
Get
Just
Whether
Which
Them
Internal
Professional
Need
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
Funny
You
Communicate
Important
Think
Medium
Laugh
Cartooning
Cartoons
Some
Absolute
Through
Idea
Know
Most
Also
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Just
Really
Should
Foundation
Hardest
Thing
Things
Extent
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
You
Humor
Own
Group
Appropriate
Way
Say
Would
Share
Perfectly
Within
Around
Context
Private
Friends
Close
Just
Public
Social
Certain
Social Group
Your
Certain Things
Whom
Right
Things
There are no cartoons about happy marriages.
Robert Mankoff
Happy
Marriages
Cartoons
About
Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.
Robert Mankoff
Needs
Cartoon
Wrong
Each
Right
Amount
People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.
Robert Mankoff
Me
People
Made
Become
Cartoonist
About
Particular
Upbringing
Often
Anything
Ask
Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.
Robert Mankoff
Humor
Field
Something
Had
Understood
Levels
Early
Playing
Playing Field
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
You
Humor
Logic
About
Something
Both
Interesting
Interesting Thing
Thing
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
Truth
Truth Is
People
Humor
Will
Some People
Nothing
Everything
Bad
Would
Would-Be
Find
Some
Bad Taste
Between
Most
Audience
Line
Offensive
Taste
Which
Your
The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.
Robert Mankoff
Would
Would-Be
New
Like
Most
Concert
Rock
Occurred
Offensive
Yorker
New Yorker
Chris
Chris Rock
Ever
Thing
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
Ways
Cartoon
Finding
Cartoonists
Supplement
Bank
Interested
Incomes
Founder
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
Try
Mind
Humor
Joke
Situation
Resolved
Monty
About
Retain
Observation
Part
Vehicle
Stuff
New
Ideas
Also
Well
How
Editorial
Question
Lot
Tapping
Comment
Yorker
New Yorker
Communicating
Use
Strangeness
Incongruity
Playful
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
Life
Fruit
Changes
Cartoons
Ideal
Studying
Like
Make
Because
Short
Short Life
Them
Cycle
Use
Flies
Large
Biologists
Hereditary
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