Zitat des Tages von Robert Mankoff:
Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.
Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how it evolves over time more quickly than we can with a form like the novel.
People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.
I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.
Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.
'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.
I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I won't quite get it anymore. Because sometimes the grenade goes off in the moment, and then it doesn't repeat down the line.
The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.
