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September 10, 2009
Bob Mankoff
The Past, Present, and Future of Humor
From primate play to The New Yorker cartoons, The Daily show, and the latest Youtube mash-ups, Bob Mankoff, Cartoon Editor of the New Yorker magazine, demonstrates how all humor is an act of cooperative creativity. With support from the UM Institute for the Humanities, and the Department of Psychology.
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Selected Bibliography
- Matthew Diffee: Robert Mankoff Interview: Part One.
- Robert Mankoff, 'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor : NPR.
- Robert Mankoff: Contributors : The New Yorker.
- The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal.
- Calvin Reid. 2004. The Cartoon Gatekeeper. Publishers Weekly 251, no. 38 (September 20): 59.
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