Throughout the day, New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff jots down ideas that strike him as funny: A door lies on a couch in a psychiatrist's office, and the psychiatrist says, "You're not crazy, you ...

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For years now, a handful of code-breakers near and far have been toiling in obscurity and trying to come up with one of the keys to the universe: To what single caption can every New Yorker cartoon be ...

Cartoons have been running alongside television for nearly as long as the medium has existed, with some decades, like the 1980s and 1990s, bringing iconic shows that are still fondly remembered years ...

This is FRESH AIR. If you love New Yorker cartoons, you'd probably love the view from Bob Mankoff's desk. As the cartoon editor of the magazine, he evaluates more than 500 cartoons every week. He ...

"If marketing kept a diary, this would be it." —Ann Handley, foreword to Your Ad Ignored Here: Cartoons From 15 Years of Marketing, Business, and Doodling in Meetings. With the yearend holidays fast ...

Intuitively we know humor helps us cope. Trust your instinct on this one, and you’ll be following the science that supports it. Of course, many challenging issues require your attention, but hopefully ...

Attending Robert Mankoff’s class is more like seeing a stand-up comedy show than going to lecture. In his course, you don’t have to politely chuckle when the professor makes a bad joke. There’s ...

Ellie Kemper and Daniel Radcliffe, stars of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend,” team up for The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest. A drawing that riffs on the latest news and ...

Animated cartoons of the 1970’s looked way different from they do now. There were few special effects beyond what animators were capable of drawing and sound effects were largely re-used time and time ...