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Robert Mankoff is the cartoon editor of The New Yorker. More than eight hundred of his cartoons have been published in The New Yorker in the past thirty years, including the best-selling New Yorker cartoon of all time.

He is the author of the book “The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity,” published in 2002, about the creative process behind developing magazine-style cartoons. He has also edited dozens of cartoon books and published four of his own. Notably, he edited “The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker” (Black Dog & Leventhal), the best-selling coffee-table book for the 2004 holiday season, featuring all 68,647 cartoons ever published in The New Yorker since its début, in 1925.

Mankoff graduated from Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences in 1966. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, with his wife, Cory, and their two children.

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December 7, 2013
Blog: From the Desk of Bob Mankoff

To Sleep, Perchance (Very Good Chance) To Wake

If you need non-pharmacological help to sleep, Dr. Bob, a licensed Cartoonologist, prescribes this insomnia-cartoon slide show.
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November 28, 2013
Blog: From the Desk of Bob Mankoff

A Turkey Divided Will Not Stand

Most families get through Thanksgiving by calling on the better angels of their nature, along with lots of beer and wine.
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November 23, 2013
Blog: From the Desk of Bob Mankoff

Selfie Explanatorie

Maybe the selfie started in ancient times, when Narcissus first became enamored of his own reflection.
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November 16, 2013
Blog: From the Desk of Bob Mankoff

Mea Culpa

Now that President Obama has apologized for the botched rollout of the Affordable But Not Enrollable Care Act, I can take full responsibility for my botched post of last week. Look, when I’m wrong, I’m wrong, and am always the first to admit it.
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November 9, 2013
Blog: From the Desk of Bob Mankoff

We Are All Plagiarists

It’s very hard to say what someone has not already said before, considering how much has already been said.
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November 2, 2013
Blog: From the Desk of Bob Mankoff

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist

There will be upwards of forty thousand runners in the New York City Marathon. But I doubt that there will be many cartoonists, who, as a mainly sedentary species, are not known for physical prowess.
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October 26, 2013
Blog: From the Desk of Bob Mankoff

How to Deal with the Coming Robot Apocalypse

In the ultimate showdown between the computers and humans, our creativity will be the solution to our salvation.
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October 19, 2013
Blog: From the Desk of Bob Mankoff

Herding Cartoonists

During the government shutdown, we received a bunch of nicely targeted put downs from Kim Warp.
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October 12, 2013
Blog: From the Desk of Bob Mankoff

Nothing to Say

In general and in specific, to paraphrase that great scourger of authority and upholder of the dignity of the downtrodden, Rodney Dangerfield, “humor don’t get no respect.”
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October 5, 2013
Blog: From the Desk of Bob Mankoff

We’ll Always Have Reverse-Caption Contests

Due to the government shutdown, there will be a slight delay in the judging of last week’s reverse-caption contest. O.K., delay over now. See, I told you it would be slight.
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