Hey, if you’re one of the top earners whose wealth Sanders and Warren have threatened to manage in a way you’ve never had it managed before, I’ve got a deal for you before they do. I’m talking about absolutely original, authenticated New Yorker cartoons going for less than your yacht's personalized ...
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I’ve been Scribit-ed!
As many of you know I’m a gadget guy, going way back. How far? Well, I did this cartoon for The New Yorker in 1985:
But even with the relentless march of technology I never thought a gadget would replace Robert Mankoff with Robot Mankoff, but now, along comes something called Scribit, doing ...
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Remembering Gahan Wilson
Dear cartoon lovers,
Gahan Wilson, one of the great greats of the art of the single panel cartoon died last week. I knew him as a colleague and friend and was his editor at The New Yorker from 1997 to 2016 where he published over six hundred cartoons. This was the last cartoon he published there ...
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Introducing Bob’s Cartoon Lounge
Hi All,
Another lifetime ago, actually just back in 2017, I was cartoon editor of The New Yorker. I really liked that job but not so much that I wanted to stay on, especially after I was asked to leave.
I really had to go then or I would have been arrested.
But why was I asked to leave? I ...
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Asian Babies Cartoon Exhibit – Asian Cartoonists in The New Yorker
I had the chance to attend the opening of Jeremy Nguyen and Amy Hwang's fantastic new cartoon exhibit, Asian Babies, at the the Pearl River Mart Gallery last week. I asked Amy to give us her thoughts on putting together the show and about the history of Asian cartoonists in The New Yorker. If you're ...
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