Bob Mankoff

I’ve been Scribit-ed!

by

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 me dot…
Continue Reading…

Remembering Gahan Wilson

by

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…
Continue Reading…

Introducing Bob’s Cartoon Lounge

by

Hi All, Another lifetime ago, actually just back in 2017, I was the 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…
Continue Reading…

That Day.

by

You got it. Same date as today eighteen years ago. The New Yorker was then located uptown on 42nd Street. I was driving in from Westchester when the planes hit but never made it because all entrances to Manhattan were sealed off. I went home and watched the towers fall and felt sick and remembered…
Continue Reading…