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Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

~Robert Mankoff

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I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

~Robert Mankoff

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One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

~Robert Mankoff

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I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I won't quite get it anymore. Because sometimes the grenade goes off in the moment, and then it doesn't repeat down the line.

~Robert Mankoff

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Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.

~Robert Mankoff

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I think funny is just the foundation. I don't really think, to some extent, funny is the absolute most important thing. It should also communicate some idea through the medium of cartooning. Just to be funny is... You know what, the things that you laugh hardest at aren't cartoons.

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There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

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I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

~Robert Mankoff

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There are no cartoons about happy marriages.

~Robert Mankoff

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People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

~Robert Mankoff

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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