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Recent Posts

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF SAM GROSS AT THE NEW YORKER!

September 4, 2019 by Bob Mankoff

Hey, times flies when you’re being as funny as Sam Gross. He got his first cartoon published in The New Yorker 50 years ago this August and over 432 have followed that one. Here are three Sam Gross New Yorker classics that will be funny 50 years from now.       There’s no doubt…
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“Ancient Mariner” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood

September 4, 2019 by Lawrence Wood

In Joe Dator’s cartoon, the Ancient Mariner from Coleridge’s poem is standing barefoot and alone at a cocktail party, with the albatross tied around his neck. To his left, a female guest says something to her partner. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge’s longest poem, is about a sailor who recounts his story of…
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“Math TV” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood

August 28, 2019 by Lawrence Wood

In Robert Leighton’s cartoon, a woman standing next to a large, wall-mounted flat-screen TV is addressing a man who’s sitting in an armchair and pointing a remote control at the screen, on which there appears an extremely complicated math problem. Seeing a couple and a TV made me think of the now-common phrase, “Netflix and…
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Anatomy of a Cartoon: The Dog Days of Summer

August 27, 2019 by Phil Witte and Rex Hesner

Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind gags to debate what makes a cartoon tick. This week our intrepid critics take a look at those last sweltering days of summer. The last half of August gathers in anxiety as it hurtles towards Labor Day. Last minute vacations are hastily arranged as the frenetic…
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“Head above Water” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood

August 21, 2019 by 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 CartoonStock.com

August 14, 2019 by CartoonStock

That’s right, licensing for New Yorker cartoonist Bob Mankoff is exclusively available on CartoonStock! 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 start…
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