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Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.

~Robert Mankoff

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I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

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The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

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The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

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The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.

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I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.

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'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.

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One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.

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Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how it evolves over time more quickly than we can with a form like the novel.

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Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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