How about never--is never good for you? : my life in cartoons
by Mankoff, Robert (Author)
Summary
"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... Full description
- Introduction
- 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
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration credits.