Bob Mankoff Quotations

We've been recession proof, which is nice. There has never been in a slump at the Cartoon Bank.

Once you cartoon for a few years, you can't possibly do anything else. Everything else just feels like work.

Now we have to devote the rest of our lives to cross country to validate the clothes.

The New Yorker is synonymous with the magazine cartoon, ... and this extends the brand because we've jumped out of the magazine and on to the Internet. We've also made it possible for someone to download a cartoon into a PowerPoint presentation or read a customized book (of cartoons) about dentists.

The New Yorker is open, just like the New York Yankees are open. All you have to do is hit it over the right-field fence.

I mean, picture this: You're in the middle of reading a very important article in The New Yorker, and then you're laughing because you got distracted by a cartoon, and you have to go to the bathroom because of all the laughing ... come on people, please keep the humor at a minimum.

Right away, people started pasting it up and requesting reprints.

It turned out to be more than just me falling down over and over again.

It was one that came from real life. I was having trouble getting through to a fellow cartoonist. He kept blowing me off, and I said those words on the phone.

I grab water out of people's hands - I act like it's a 911 situation. I need water.