I was trying to get on the phone, and I did get on the phone with a friend of mine, quote-unquote "friend," who I wanted to see. So I had done nine cartoons, and I was looking to do one more. When I was doing that, I liked to have, in general, about 10 cartoons.Īnd people say, well, why - you know, new cartoonists especially ask me - why do you want me to do 10 cartoons every week? I say because 9 out of 10 things in life don't work out. You usually get 10 or 15, and you're - certainly when I was a cartoonist, before I was a cartoon editor, you're rushing to do what is called the batch. So, do you remember how you came up with the idea about how about never – is never good for you?īOB MANKOFF: I absolutely do, which is unusual because you know, as I told people a lot of times, people think you get one idea for a cartoon every week, and that's not the way it works. Terry Gross spoke with Mankoff last year, when his book was first published.īob Mankoff, welcome back to FRESH AIR. And the book is Bob Mankoff's best-selling memoir "How About Never - Is Never Good For You?" It's subtitled "My Life In Cartoons." It's filled with cartoons and insights about them. The movie is a documentary called "Very Semi Serious: A Partially Thorough Portrait Of New Yorker Cartoonists." It appeared in select theaters last month and premieres on HBO December 14. How about never? Is never good for you? The art of today's guest, Bob Mankoff, and of scores of other New Yorker cartoonists, is the subject of two loving retrospectives, one on screen and one in print. An executive is at his desk on the phone, looking at his calendar saying no, Thurday's out. Here's a description of the cartoon for which he's most famous. He became the cartoon editor in 1997, 20 years after selling his first cartoon to the magazine. As the cartoon editor of the magazine, he evaluates more than 500 cartoons every week. If you love New Yorker cartoons, you'd probably love the view from Bob Mankoff's desk. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross.
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