Robert Mankoff > Quotes

“We’ve created a safe, nonjudgemental environment that will leave your child ill-prepared for real-life.”
― Robert Mankoff, The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons

“GAHAN WILSON,”
― Robert Mankoff, The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons: A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive

“I have entered the New Yorker's Cartoon Caption Contest almost weekly virtually since it began and have never even been a finalist. I have done more writing for free for the New Yorker in the last five years than for anybody in the previous 40 years. It's not that I think my cartoon captions are better than anyone else's, although some weeks, understandably, I do. It's that just once I want to see one of my damn captions in the magazine that publishes the best cartoons in the world."
- Roger Ebert
(By the way, in 2011 Ebert finally won, after 107 tries.)”
― Bob Mankoff, How About Never—Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons

“The robots have become self-aware and self-loathing. Now all they do is write novels.” FARLEY KATZ, APRIL 12, 2010”
― Robert Mankoff, The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons: A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive