Bob's Cartoon Lounge

I got all excited about “Super Tuesday” yesterday—but even as I was getting all hyped up, I thought that “Super Tuesday” sounded hokey, dated, and so 80s. This was confirmed by none other than the true oracle of our age, Google. I won’t explain what an Ngram is because I can’t, but suffice to say…
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Last Friday, while scrolling through Facebook, we found this deeply dark, wonderfully satiric cartoon by CartoonStock artist Ron Hauge whose specialty is skewering Donald Trump. In this case, the skewering was of that arch Trumpian Rush Limbaugh after The Donald awarded The Rush the medal of freedom. The good news is that this wonderful cartoon…
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Whatever the opposite of a foodie is, I am. The guy in this cartoon of mine is basically me: Look, as far as I’m concerned, any variety of apple a day will keep the medical profession at bay. And even instant coffee quickly turns me human in the morning. I know this makes me sound…
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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 gunwale boarding mat. Now…
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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…
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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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