Cartoon guru, former New Yorker editor, featured at EDNY Court
Chief Judge Dora L. Irizarry on Friday announced the opening of “The World of Bob Mankoff: A Cartoon Retrospective” by Bob Mankoff at the Charles P. Sifton Gallery in the Theodore Roosevelt United States Courthouse in Downtown Brooklyn.
Bob Mankoff is the former cartoon editor of The New Yorker and the current humor and cartoon editor of Esquire. He edited “The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker” (Black Dog & Leventhal), the best-selling coffee table book during holiday 2004, featuring all 68,647 cartoons ever published in The New Yorker since its debut in 1925. He describes this as the “golden age of humor,” where humor helps build personal connections in business and personal relationships.
Mankoff has edited dozens of cartoon books, published four of his own and is an accomplished cartoonist. More than 950 of his cartoons have been published in The New Yorker during the past 20 years, including the best-selling New Yorker cartoon of all time (the harried businessman at his desk with a phone to his ear, reviewing his calendar and saying: “No, Thursday’s out, how about never. Is never good for you?”). He is the author of “The Naked Cartoonist,” a book published in 2003 on the creative process behind developing magazine-style cartoons. His most recent book is a memoir titled “How About Never — Is Never Good For You?: My Life in Cartoons,” published by Henry Holt & Co. on March 25, which was featured in a segment on “60 Minutes” on March 23.