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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.

– Robert Mankoff

Robert Mankoff

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.

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Robert Mankoff

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

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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.

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Robert Mankoff

The most offensive thing that ever occurred in ‘The New Yorker’ would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.

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Robert Mankoff

I am a ‘made’ cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

– Robert Mankoff

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

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Robert Mankoff

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

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Robert Mankoff

There are no cartoons about happy marriages.

– Robert Mankoff

Robert Mankoff

I don’t think most people know what’s going to be in their obituary, but I do.

– Robert Mankoff

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

Robert Mankoff

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

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