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How about never-- is never good for you? : my life in cartoons / Bob Mankoff.

by Mankoff, Robert.

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Henry Holt and Company, 2014.

741.56973 M278h

Mankoff, Robert.

New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)

Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography

Periodical editors -- United States -- Biography

Caricatures and cartoons -- Authorship.

American wit and humor, Pictorial.

9780805095906 (hc.)

080509590X (hc.)

285 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

I'm not arguing, I'm Jewish -- We're looking for people who like to draw -- A brief history of cartooning -- Deconstructing New Yorker cartoons -- Finding my style -- My generation -- Laughing all the way to the cartoon bank -- Lucking out, getting in -- Seinfeld and the cartoon episode -- Tooning The New Yorker: where cartoons come from -- The cartoon department -- David decides -- How to "win" the New Yorker cartoon caption contest -- The kids are all right.

"Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New Yorker. With the help of myriad images and his funniest, most beloved cartoons, he traces his love of the craft all the way back to his childhood, when he started doing funny drawings at the age of eight. After meeting his mother, we follow his unlikely stints as a high-school basketball star, draft dodger, and sociology grad student. Though Mankoff abandoned the study of psychology in the seventies to become a cartoonist, here he takes up the psychology of cartooning, analyzing why some cartoons make us laugh and others don't. The New Yorker has published over 75,000 cartoons since its founding, and 95% of them were done by only a few hundred cartoonists. For decades now, Mankoff has been at the center of this talented group of artists. He allows us into the hallowed halls of The New Yorker to show us the soup-to-nuts process of cartoon creation, giving us a detailed look not only at his own work, but that of the other talented cartoonists who keep us laughing week after week. Throughout, we see his commitment to the motto 'Anything worth saying is worth saying funny.'"--Provided by publisher.

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