Personal History: From Zero To Sixty In the summer of 1977, with college behind me and the demands of school work finally over, I was able to focus all of my attention on getting into the New Yorker — my New Yorker or Bust phase. I’d begun sending the magazine work when I was still in high school, and then
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Bob Mankoff’s Third Act; An Update: Mankoff Puts the Kibosh on an Esquire Look Day
On his 73rd birthday, Bob Mankoff, newly un-hitched from his duties as cartoon editor of the New Yorker, let the word go forth he was immediately beginning a new job as cartoon editor (and humor editor) of the 83 year old men’s magazine, Esquire. Pre-dating Playboy, Esquire was once one of the major markets in this country for cartoons embracing
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I found something I was looking for the other day: a log of cartoons I kept in my nascent years of cartooning. Looking through I realized that the only drawings I sold in the Fall of 1977 — right after breaking into The New Yorker — were to Esquire. During that year Esquire was being retooled
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