15 Facts About Bob Mankoff

Robert Mankoff was born on May 1,1944 and is an American cartoonist, editor, and author.

Bob Mankoff was the cartoon editor for The New Yorker for nearly twenty years.

Bob Mankoff grew up in Queens, New York, and attended Music and Art High School and Syracuse University.

Bob Mankoff is the founder and President of Cartoon Collections, a cartoon licensing database, which owns CartoonStock.

Bob Mankoff submitted more than 500 cartoons to The New Yorker for over two years before he had his first one published in 1977.

In 1992, Bob Mankoff founded the online Cartoon Bank, a licensing platform for New Yorker cartoons and art, with more than 85,000 cartoons available for sale.

Bob Mankoff was hired as New Yorker cartoon editor in 1997; he credits his administration of the Cartoon Bank as being an important reason for why he was chosen to replace Lee Lorenz,.

Bob Mankoff edited at least 14 collections of New Yorker cartoons, including The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker, a compilation of every cartoon published since the magazine was founded; the hardcover book is a 656-page collection of the magazine's best cartoons published during 80 years, plus a double CD set with all 68,647 cartoons published to that point.

Bob Mankoff once stated that his all-time favorite New Yorker cartoonist was Jack Ziegler.

Bob Mankoff has cited Shel Silverstein as an artist he would have liked as a contributing cartoonist.

Bob Mankoff usually contributed a short article to each issue of The New Yorker, describing some aspect of the cartooning process or the methods used to select cartoons for the magazine.

Bob Mankoff himself contributes cartoons to Moment magazine's own monthly cartoon caption contest.

In 2016, Bob Mankoff co-founded Botnik Studios with Jamie Brew, a former ClickHole and The Onion writer.

Bob Mankoff resigned from his position at Esquire in June 2019.

Bob Mankoff was named cartoon editor of Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley's digital newsletter, Air Mail, in July 2019.