Yesterday was a starred day on many New Yorker cartoonist’s calendar — it was Emma Allen’s first Look Day in her new position as the magazine’s cartoon editor. Look Day is the day cartoonists have traditionally come into the magazine’s offices to sit with the editor and hand over their latest work. In an email to contributors a few weeks
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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
Read moreThe Tilley Watch: Emma Allen’s First Week
It is the rare moment when a new cartoon editor begins their first day on the job at the New Yorker. The last time it happened was in the summer of 1997, and before that it was in 1973 (when the title of cartoon editor was wrapped up within the title of art editor), and before that, in 1939
Read moreThe Passing of the Baskets
This week, as has been noted here, and plenty of places elsewhere, is Bob Mankoff’s last as the New Yorker‘s cartoon editor. Emma Allen, who is the magazine’s Daily Shouts editor, will become the center of the New Yorker cartoon world next week, and as such, will automatically become the focus of all existing New Yorker cartoonists and all
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