Mankoff

May 27, 2008

http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/conference/2008/mankoff

Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, discusses the concept of humor throughout history. From “Stories from the Near Future,” the 2008 New Yorker Conference.

Robert Mankoff of The New Yorker proposes a taxonomy for cartoons. "Most gags consist of an unreal image with a rather ordinary caption," he says, citing (1), above left. But there are also ordinary image and unreal caption (2); unreal image and unreal caption (3); and ordinary image and ordinary caption (4).