From The University of Michigan’s playgallery.org, September 2011, “Bob Mankoff: An Interview” From The Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2011, “How About Never — Is Never Good For You? Celebrities Struggle to Write Winning Captions”
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Smithsonian exhibit “New Comic Art Acquisitions”
From the Smithsonian, this news of an exhibit, “Timely and Timeless: New Comic Art Acquisitions” ( included are works by Charles Addams, John Held, Jr., and Roz Chast)
Read moreChris Ware speaks; Beaton & Chast at SPX; Golf exhibit includes New Yorker cartoons; Brunetti at Chicago ComicCon
From This is Reno, August 10, 2011, “Writers in the Woods Literary Speaker Series starts September 2011” — ( Chris Ware to speak and workshop) From Comics Beat, August 11, 2011, “SPX announcing programming with Woodring, Beaton, Telnaes, Chast, Brown” From Access Atlanta, August 11, 2011, “High Museum tees up ‘Art of Golf’ in 2012” (scroll way down
Read moreRobert Mankoff and the Benign Violation Theory
From the blog, Westword, July 15, 2011: “Peter McGraw, Humor Research Lab director, takes his comedy theory to the International Humor Conference” (Robert Mankoff content) …and in case you missed it on The New Yorker’s website, here’s Mr. Mankoff’s recent blog post, “Benign Violations and Distant Mishaps”
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