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How About never--is Never Good for You?

How About never--is Never Good for You?

My Life in Cartoons

by Robert Mankoff and Bob Mankoff
Hardback
Publication Date: 14/04/2014

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Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of "The New Yorker"People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of "The New Yorker" he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best jobs in the world. 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, he recently realized that the field he abandoned could help him better understand the field he was in, and here he takes up the psychology of cartooning, analyzing why some cartoons make us laugh and others don't. 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. For desert, he reveals the secrets to winning the magazine's caption contest. Throughout "How About Never--Is Never Good for You?," we see his commitment to the motto "Anything worth saying is worth saying funny."
ISBN:
9780805095906
9780805095906
Category:
Comic book & cartoon art
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
14-04-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Henry Holt & Company Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
285
Dimensions (mm):
257x211x30mm
Weight:
0.91kg
Bob Mankoff

Bob Mankoff was the New Yorker cartoons editor from 1997 to 2017.

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