Im pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.
Robert MankoffHumor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.
Robert MankoffI know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.
Robert MankoffA lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself...
Robert MankoffNone of the cartoons that I ever did are basically, if they're about sex, they're about sex in sort of this, you know, this ironic way, or the way that people actually treat it.
Robert MankoffI think The New Yorker's cartoons aren't very political because the people who do the cartoons aren't awfully political people, and they aren't paid to be political. I think editorial cartoonists are. That's what they do. They probably have a great natural interest in politics, and then they are paid to do it, so they sort of have to hunt out these ideas. I admire editorial cartoons, but I'm also sort of happy that I don't do them because I'd hate to have to label things and I'd especially hate, more than anything, to label something Dennis Hastert or Mark Foley.
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