Mankoff Cartoonist Quotes & Sayings

was working the cold up — Leif Enger

Most of the members of the convent were old-fashioned Satanists, like their parents and grandparents before them. They'd been brought up to it, and weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and playing guitars at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow. Anyway, being brought up as a Satanist tended to take the edge off it. It was something you did on Saturday nights.
And the rest of the time you simply got on with life as best you could, just like everyone else. — Terry Pratchett

As a cartoonist I do what I find funny. As an editor I have a broader approach realizing that humor is inherently subjective and I don't want my preferences to rule out what others might like. — Robert Mankoff

I am free to write what I want and my readers are free to think what they can — Marlowe Sr.

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic. — Robert Mankoff

[A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very possible) — David Hume

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer. — Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist. — Robert Mankoff

My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon. — Tommy Rettig

People think you get one idea for a cartoon every week, and that's not the way it works. You usually get 10 or 15, and you're - certainly when I was a cartoonist, before I was a cartoon editor, you're rushing to do what is called the batch. When I was doing that, I liked to have, in general, about 10 cartoons. — Robert Mankoff

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day. — Quinton Aaron