Welcome to Cartoon Collections, where you can instantly license and download thousands of New Yorker cartoons as well as exclusive artwork from Esquire, National Lampoon, Barron’s, Wall Street Journal, The Rejection Collection, The American Bystander and more. Brainchild of Esquire Cartoon and Humor editor, former New Yorker Cartoon Editor, and Cartoon Bank founder Bob Mankoff, the goal of Cartoon Collections is three-fold:…
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“Head above Water” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
In my fellow Chicagoan Pat Byrnes’ drawing, two mobsters have fitted their latest victim with concrete shoes and thrown him off a pier and into the river. His head, however, remains above water because he’s landed safely on top of a pile of other victims. He’s saying something to the mobsters on the pier. My…
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Bob Mankoff Cartoons: EXCLUSIVELY on CartoonCollections.com
That’s right, licensing for New Yorker cartoonist Bob Mankoff is exclusively available on Cartoon Collections! In his twenty years as cartoon editor for The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff pored over literally thousands of submissions; analyzing, critiquing, and selecting each cartoon, he mentored cartoonists, new and old, towards the laughs readers expect. In 2005, he helped…
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“50 dollar bill” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
In J.B. Handlesman’s cartoon, a bartender is addressing Ulysses S. Grant, whose face appears on a huge $50 bill. Ron Chernow, who wrote the Alexander Hamilton biography that Lin-Manuel Miranda turned into a smash Broadway musical, recently wrote a biography of Ulysses Grant, so I initially imagined the bartender speculating about Grant’s chances of becoming…
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