You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's true of art and everything else.
Robert MankoffThe generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have much more observational humor.
Robert MankoffCartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn't appear until 2000.
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