Robert Mankoff Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Robert Mankoff quotes and sayings page 2 (artist). These are the last 10 out of 20 quotes we have.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.”
“One of the first comic things you do is imitate.”
“People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.”
“The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.”
“'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.”
“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.”
“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.”
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