Arts: New Yorker Cartoons Explained

	Now playing: Slate V, a video-only site from the world's leading online magazine. Visit Slate V at www.slatev.com. Brow Beat New Yorker Cartoons Explained By David Haglund Posted Monday, Jul 01, 2013, at 08:39 PM ET Bob Mankoff is the cartoon editor for The New Yorker. He is also a cartoonist himself, who was rejected 2,000 times by the magazine, he says, before it finally accepted one of his own. (This was before he got the current job, obviously.) He later wrote "How about never—is never good for you?" among other classics. In the TED talk below, delivered earlier this year and uploaded to YouTube last week, he attempts to explain what a New Yorker cartoon is (the term the magazine uses in its contracts is not cartoon but "idea drawing") and what makes them work, when they do. There's quite a bit of stand-up mixed in with the presentation, but any fan of New Yorker cartoons will likely find it illuminating. And you will probably finish it feeling pretty excited for Very Semi-Serious, a documentary about New Yorker cartoons currently in production. (Via Open Culture.) To continue reading, click here. Also In Slate Are the Liberal Justices Savvy or Suckers? Enough With the TV Antiheroes Already What's Next for U.S. Surveillance? Manage your newsletters subscription: Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend | Advertising Information Ideas on how to make something better? Send an e-mail to slatenewsletter@nl.slate.com. Copyright 2013 The Slate Group | Privacy Policy The Slate Group | c/o E-mail Customer Care | 1350 Connecticut Ave NW Suite 410 | Washington, D.C. 20036