Sunday, Morley Safer took 60 Minutes to the New Yorker to see how the cartoons were selected. The 13 minute segment is below along with other web extras. So you want to see your cartoon In The New Yorker? Extra: Morley Safer’s favorite New Yorker cartoons: Extra: Bob Mankoff as a cartoon Extra: Twenty-five years […]
This Sunday Morley Safer talks with New Yorker editor David Remnick about the cartoon selection process. Expect to see Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor. Here’s the preview/teaser: Oops… here it is for real.
A Late Night skit from Seth Meyers wherein actors act out New Yorker cartoons. Props to the show for A. citing the cartoonists who drew the original gag and B. keeping the sets true to the original cartoon.
New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff was a speaker at SXSW. Huffington Post has posted a on-the-sidewalk discussion on Bob on how cartoons work.
From Michael Maslin’s blog: The brand new New Yorker (March 10, 2014) features what I believe to be an unprecedented single issue contribution by a cartoonist: a dozen pages, in color. The piece, by Roz Chast, ?Can?t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?? is also the title of her forthcoming graphic memoir (coming in May […]
New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin: I asked three of the most recent additions to the magazine?s stable of artists to tell us a little about themselves and how it was they ended up at The New Yorker. Here’s the interviews: Liana Finck Edward Steed Charlie Hankin
Michael Maslin: Michael Maslin : You know, it?s funny, but I realized this evening while looking up your work on The New Yorker?s database that tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of your first appearance in the magazine, the issue dated December 13, 1993. What was that moment like for you, selling that first drawing, and […]
New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin looks at a few New Yorker cartoon collections from half a century ago. Before my recent interview with Dana Fradon, I did some research ? as much as the internet allowed, which wasn?t a heck of a lot ? and ran into this first collection of his from 1961. My […]
Too Much Coffee Man creator Shannon Wheeler’s first collection of rejected New Yorker cartoons (I Thought You Would Be Funnier) won an Eisner award. He’s releasing a second collection called, “I Don?t Get It” through Boom! You?ve got to be pretty funny when your rejected cartoons win an Eisner, but that?s what happened to Shannon […]
Ed Koren has been doing cartoons for the New Yorker for over 50 years. Below is a video by Stuck in Vermont. Via: Mike Lynch
A great talk by New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff about constructing humor in the New Yorker and in cartooning in general.
Davina Pardo has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary called “Very Semi-Serious” about the people and culture surrounding New Yorker cartoons. From the campaign description: Who are the people behind the signatures? And how do they come up with so many subtle and sophisticated ideas? I started researching the cartoonists (first surprise: there […]
Sad news from Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of the New Yorker: Ed Fisher, who drew cartoons for The New Yorker from 1951 to 2000, died the other day, at age eighty-seven. Ed, on the other hand, did?all told, he contributed over seven hundred cartoons. Bob has posted several of his favorite Ed Fisher cartoons. The […]
The New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff responds to a cartoon by Mick Stevens that was banned on Facebook because it depicted a naked Adam and Eve. The New Yorker has a Facebook page, which a lot of you like, or maybe it’s just one person with a lot of time on their hands, liking […]
Remember the Seinfeld episode wherein Elaine complains about how non-understandable New Yorker cartoons are and she sets out to “crack the code” using the J Peterman catalog as an excuse to talk to The New Yorker editor “Elinoff”? This week, 14 years after that episode ran, The New Yorker is using Elaine’s cartoon (see last […]