Bob Mankoff has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker ever since 1977 and now, as cartoon editor, he evaluates more than 500 cartoons submitted to the magazine each week. Mankoff is proud of ...

The piggy at the complaint department is back. The New Yorker is republishing the cartoon featured—and mocked—in the 1998 Seinfeld episode, "The Cartoon." The magazine is asking readers for their ...

Appropriately, given its title, Very Semi-Serious also devotes a good amount of time to letting the cartoonists ruminate on the nature of humor. Some locate the root of their work in childhood, as a ...

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Humor is both a creative and a cognitive process, says Bob Mankoff, who has contributed cartoons to The New Yorker since 1977. Originally... 'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It ...