by Mankoff, Bob
Robert Mankoff/ Unpublished
Robert Mankoff/ Unpublished
Robert Mankoff/The Saturday Review of Literature, 1977
Robert Mankoff/ Unpublished
Robert Mankoff/Elementary: The Cartoonist Did It, Avon Books, 1980
Robert Mankoff/Urban Bumpkins, St. Martin’s Press, 1984
Robert Mankoff/ Unpublished
Robert Mankoff/Elementary: The Cartoonist Did It, Avon Books, 1980
Robert Mankoff/Elementary: The Cartoonist Did It, Avon Books, 1980
Robert Mankoff/Elementary: The Cartoonist Did It, Avon Books, 1980
Robert Mankoff/ Unpublished
Robert Mankoff/ Unpublished
Robert Mankoff/ Unpublished
Mischa Richter/The New Yorker Collection/1972
Robert Mankoff/The Naked Cartoonist, Blackdog and Leventhal, 2002
Robert Mankoff/The Naked Cartoonist, Blackdog and Leventhal, 2002
Robert Mankoff/Urban Bumpkins, St. Martin’s Press, 1984
Robert Mankoff/Urban Bumpkins, St. Martin’s Press, 1984
Robert Mankoff/Unpublished
Robert Mankoff/Unpublished version of first cartoon in The New Yorker
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1977
Mick Stevens/The New Yorker Collection/1979
Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/1974
Michael Maslin/Unpublished
Whitney Darrow, Jr./The New Yorker Collection/1977
Michael Maslin/The New Yorker Collection/1978
Roz Chast/The New Yorker Collection/1978
Helen E. Hokinson/The New Yorker Collection/1938
Helen E. Hokinson/The New Yorker Collection/1946
George Price/The New Yorker Collection/1978
Michael Crawford/The New Yorker Collection/1983
Danny Shanahan/The New Yorker Collection/1989
Bernard Kliban
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1977
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1977
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1977
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1977
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1979
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1978
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1980
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1980
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1980
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1980
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1979
Jack Ziegler/Unpublished
Charles Saxon/The New Yorker Collection/1983
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1980
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1980
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1983
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1982
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1980
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1983
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1983
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1985
William Hamilton/The New Yorker Collection/1979
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1989
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1988
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1986
Robert Mankoff/Call Your Office, Topper Books, 1986
Robert Mankoff/Call Your Office, Topper Books, 1986
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1997
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1991
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1992
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1999
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1992
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1991
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1990
Mischa Richter/The New Yorker Collection/1958
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1979
Robert Mankoff/The Saturday Review of Literature, 1982
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1985
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/2001
Sam Gross, published National Lampoon, 1975
Sam Gross, published National Lampoon, 1970
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1989
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1993
Mike Twohy/The New Yorker Collection/1994
Michael Maslin/The New Yorker Collection/1997
Lee Lorenz/The New Yorker Collection/1993
Mike Twohy/The New Yorker Collection/1997
Bernard Schoenbaum/The New Yorker Collection/1998
Danny Shanahan/The New Yorker Collection/1998
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1994
William Hamilton/The New Yorker Collection/1998
Robert Weber/The New Yorker Collection/1998
Leo Cullum/The New Yorker Collection/1997
Sam Gross/The New Yorker Collection/1998
J. B. Handelsman/The New Yorker Collection/1997
Tom Cheney/The New Yorker Collection/1997
Bruce Eric Kaplan/The New Yorker Collection/1998
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/2000
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1998
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1979
Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/2001
Leo Cullum/The New Yorker Collection/1998
Michael Maslin/The New Yorker Collection/2000
Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/1990
Pat Byrnes/The New Yorker Collection/2000
Danny Shanahan/The New Yorker Collection/2005
Roz Chast/The New Yorker Collection/1980
Harry Bliss/The New Yorker Collection/2003
Leo Cullum/The New Yorker Collection/2002
David Sipress/The New Yorker Collection/2003
diagram © Mary Ann Rishel/Writing Humor, Wayne State University: 2002.
Alex Gregory/The New Yorker Collection/2001
Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/1995
Mick Stevens/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Matthew Diffee/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Roz Chast/The New Yorker Collection/1983
Roz Chast/The New Yorker Collection/1993
David Sipress/The New Yorker Collection/2008
David Sipress/The New Yorker Collection/2010
David Sipress/The New Yorker Collection/2000
David Sipress/The New Yorker Collection/2011
Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/2006
Liam Walsh/The New Yorker Collection/2011
Liam Walsh/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Liam Walsh/Unpublished
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/2005
Liam Walsh/The New Yorker Collection/2013
Danny Shanahan/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Sam Gross/The New Yorker Collection/2009
Mort Gerberg/The New Yorker Collection/1998
David Sipress/The New Yorker Collection/2004
Ed Fisher/The New Yorker Collection/1955
Sam Gross/The New Yorker Collection/1981
Peter Steiner/The New Yorker Collection/1990
Tom Cheney/The New Yorker Collection/2005
Edward Frascino/The New Yorker Collection/1968
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1993
David Sipress/ Unpublished
Warren Miller/The New Yorker Collection/1990
Henry Martin/The New Yorker Collection/1989
Al Ross/The New Yorker Collection/1991
Liam Walsh
Paul Noth/The New Yorker Collection/2013
Michael Crawford/ Unpublished
William Haefeli/The New Yorker Collection/2009
Mick Stevens/Unpublished
Joe Dator/The New Yorker Collection/2013
Roz Chast/The New York
er Collection/2008
Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/2002
Drew Dernavich/The New Yorker Collection/2008
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1995
Farley Katz/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Paul Karasik/The New Yorker Collection/2013
Edward Koren/The New Yorker Collection/2013
Sidney Harris/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Bob Eckstein/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Bob Eckstein/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Marisa Acocella Marchetto/The New Yorker Collection/1998
Michael Maslin/The New Yorker Collection/2013
Leo Cullum/The New Yorker Collection/2001
Robert Mankoff/ Unpublished
Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/1996
Pat Byrnes/The New Yorker Collection/1999
Barbara Smaller/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Christopher Weyant/The New Yorker Collection/2012
J. C. Duffy, published in The Rejection Collection, 2010
David Sipress/The New Yorker Collection/2006
John Kane/The New Yorker Collection/2004
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/2007
Mick Stevens/The New Yorker Collection/2001
Alex Gregory/The New Yorker Collection/2006
Bruce Eric Kaplan/The New Yorker Collection/2011
William Haefeli/The New Yorker Collection/2010
Bruce Eric Kaplan/The New Yorker Collection/2007
Corey Pandolph/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1996
Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/1998
Drew Dernavich/The New Yorker Collection/2005
Drew Dernavich/The New Yorker Collection/2005
Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/2000
Mike Twohy/The New Yorker Collection/2005
Frank Cotham/The New Yorker Collection/2006
Frank Cotham/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Tom Cheney/The New Yorker Collection/2011
Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/2008
Danny Shanahan/The New Yorker Collection/2006
Whitney Darrow, Jr./The New Yorker Collection/1967
Peter Steiner/The New Yorker Collection/1993
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/2003
David Sipress/The New Yorker Collection/2003
David Sipress/ Daily cartoon for newyorker.com
David Sipress/ Daily cartoon for newyorker.com
William Haefeli/The New Yorker Collection/1998
William Haefeli/The New Yorker Collection/2002
William Haefeli/The New Yorker Collection/2004
William Haefeli/The New Yorker Collection/2011
William Haefeli/The New Yorker Collection/2009
J. C. Duffy/The New Yorker Collection/2003
Christopher Weyant/The New Yorker Collection/2003
Harry Bliss/The New Yorker Collection/2007
Drew Dernavich/The New Yorker Collection/2008
Drew Dernavich/The New Yorker Collection/2010
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1985
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1985
Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection/1993
Matthew Diffee/The New Yorker Collection/1999
Matthew Diffee/The New Yorker Collection/1999
Matthew Diffee/The New Yorker Collection/2001
Matthew Diffee/The New Yorker Collection/2002
Matthew Diffee/The New Yorker Collection/2006
Matthew Diffee/The New Yorker Collection/2004
Alex Gregory/The New Yorker Collection/1999
Alex Gregory/The New Yorker Collection/1999
Alex Gregory/The New Yorker Collection/2002
Alex Gregory/The New Yorker Collection/2003
Alex Gregory/The New Yorker Collection/2003
Alex Gregory/The New Yorker Collection/2006
Paul Noth/Unpublished
Paul Noth/The New Yorker Collection/2004
Paul Noth/The New Yorker Collection/2005
Paul Noth/The New Yorker Collection/2010
Paul Noth/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Paul Noth/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Zachary Kanin/Unpublished
Zachary Kanin/The New Yorker Collection/2005
Zachary Kanin/The New Yorker Collection/2006
Zachary Kanin/The New Yorker Collection/2007
Zachary Kanin/The New Yorker Collection/2007
Zachary Kanin/The New Yorker Collection/2011
Farley Katz/The New Yorker Collection/2009
Farley Katz/The New Yorker Collection/2008
Alex Gregory/The New Yorker Collection/2004
Kim Warp/The New Yorker Collection/2011
Ariel Molvig/The New Yorker Collection/2008
Benjamin Schwartz/The New Yorker Collection/2013
William Haefeli/The New Yorker Collection/2000
Bob Eckstein/The New Yorker Collection/2011
Carolita Johnson/The New Yorker Collection/2010
Christopher Weyant/The New Yorker Collection/2006
David Sipress/The New Yorker Collection/2011
Drew Dernavich/The New Yorker Collection/2009
Edward Steed/ Unpublished
Emily Flake/The New Yorker Collection/2011
Farley Katz/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Harry Bliss/The New Yorker Collection/2012
J. C. Duffy/The New Yorker Collection/2011
Joe Dator/The New Yorker Collection/2010
Kaamran Hafeez/The New Yorker Collection/2011
Amy Hwang/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Liam Walsh/The New Yorker Collection/2013
Marisa Acocella Marchetto/The New Yorker Collection/1999
Matthew Diffee/The New Yorker Collection/2003
Michael Shaw/The New Yorker Collection/2006
Paul Noth/The New Yorker Collection/2011
Robert Leighton/The New Yorker Collection/2013
Tom Toro/The New Yorker Collection/2012
Zachary Kanin/The New Yorker Collection/2010
Pat Byrnes/The New Yorker Collection/2004
Shannon Wheeler/The New Yorker Collection/2012
ALSO BY BOB MANKOFF
The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity
CARTOON COLLECTIONS
Elementary: The Cartoonist Did It
Urban Bumpkins
Call Your Office
It’s Lonely at the Top
AS EDITOR
The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker
On the Money: The Economy in Cartoons, 1925–2009
The New Yorker Caption Contest Book
The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons
The New Yorker Book of Business Cartoons
The New Yorker Book of Art Cartoons
The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons
The New Yorker Book of Kids Cartoons
School Days: Cartoons from The New Yorker
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BOB MANKOFF is the current cartoon editor for The New Yorker magazine. Before he succeeded Lee Lorenz as editor, Mankoff was a cartoonist for The New Yorker for twenty years. He founded the online Cartoon Bank, which has cataloged every cartoon since the magazine’s founding. He is the author of the book The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity.
How About Never—Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons Copyright © 2014 by Bob Mankoff. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
www.henryholt.com
Jacket design by Toshiya Masuda; illustration by Bob Mankoff
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Mankoff, Robert.
How about never—is never good for you?: my life in cartoons / Bob Mankoff. — First edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978
-0-8050-9590-6 (hardback)—ISBN 978-0-8050-9591-3 (electronic book)
1. Mankoff, Robert. 2. Cartoonists—United States—Biography. 3. Periodical editors—United States—Biography. 4. New Yorker (New York, N.Y.: 1925) I. Title.
NC1429.M358A2 2014
741.5′6973—dc23
[B] 2013021129
e-ISBN 9780805095913
First Edition: March 2014