Bob Mankoff, it seems, is a cartoonist down to his chromosomes. It’s both this book’s greatest virtue and its greatest flaw. If only we could know what he REALLY thinks about colleagues and forebears.

Your first 2,000 submissions to The New Yorker were rejected. I thought I was very funny and The New Yorker was very stupid. Looking back, it was the other way around. How much do you edit the ...

Appropriately, given its title, Very Semi-Serious also devotes a good amount of time to letting the cartoonists ruminate on the nature of humor. Some locate the root of their work in childhood, as a ...

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