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How About Never--Is Never Good For You?: My Life In Cartoons (2014)

by Bob Mankoff(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

080509590X (ISBN13: 9780805095906)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Henry Holt and Co.

review 1: Mankoff, long time cartoon editor of The New Yorker, has produced a biography that is mostly cartoons, some prose, and totally funny. Included are many of his own cartoons, and those of the legendary cartoonist of the magazine—Garson Kanin, Sam Gross, and George Booth. How does a cartoon get chosen for The New Yorker? Can an aspiring cartoonist make a living at it? How can you win the magazine’s Cartoon Caption Contest> Mankoff tells all, and hilarity ensues.
review 2: My husband and I bought this book because we listened to Bob Mankoff being interviewed on NPR. Much of the same topics were covered in the interview and in the book: a little bit of New Yorker cartooning history, the process of selection, what makes a cartoon funny, how to win the caption con... moretest. The book contains more detail about Mankoff's early life, how he broke into cartooning, how others cartoonists broke into cartooning, their process of creation, and how they get ideas. The book also talks about the Cartoon Bank, Mankoff's brainchild that provides alternate income for cartoonists, since the New Yorker is now the only market left for cartoons in print. I found the book fun to read, and charming. The best part of all is that it is chock full of cartoons, both Mankoff's own, and those of others. less

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