Bob Mankoff's How About Never--Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons PDF

By Bob Mankoff

ISBN-10: 0805095918

ISBN-13: 9780805095913

Memoir in cartoons by way of the longtime caricature editor of the recent Yorker

People inform Bob Mankoff that because the comic strip editor of the hot Yorker he has the simplest task on the planet. by no means one to overcome round the bush, he explains to us, within the beginning of this singular, delightfully eccentric e-book, that simply because he's additionally a cartoonist on the journal he really has of the simplest jobs on the planet. With the aid of myriad photographs and his funniest, so much cherished cartoons, he lines his love of the craft all of the as far back as his early life, while he all started doing humorous drawings on the age of 8. After assembly his mom, we stick with his not likely stints as a high-school basketball megastar, draft dodger, and sociology grad scholar. even though Mankoff deserted the research of psychology within the seventies to develop into a cartoonist, he lately learned that the sector he deserted may possibly support him higher comprehend the sector he was once in, and right here he is taking up the psychology of cartooning, examining why a few cartoons make us giggle and others don't. He permits us into the hallowed halls of the hot Yorker to teach us the soup-to-nuts means of comic strip production, giving us a close glance not just at his personal paintings, yet that of the opposite proficient cartoonists who hold us giggling week after week. For wilderness, he unearths the secrets and techniques to successful the magazine's caption contest. all through How approximately Never--Is by no means solid for You?, we see his dedication to the motto “Anything worthy announcing is worthy announcing funny.”

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