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How About Never?:New Yorker Cartoonist Mankoff on New Memoir

What makes a New Yorker cartoon funny? The magazine’s cartoon editor Bob Mankoff says “Most New Yorker cartoons I don’t think are belly laughs, they’re sort of smiles of the mind.” Mankoff shares stories from his almost forty-year career at The New Yorker in his new memoir and history of the magazine’s cartoons called How About Never? Is Never Good For You? My Life in Cartoons.