Have I Obtained a Cartoon for You!: The Second Journal E book of Jewish Cartoons

Indie Awards Silver Medal Winner (Nonfiction Grownup Humor)

Bob Mankoff grew up Jewish in Queens, NY within the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties. As a child, he visited the Borscht Belt and reveled within the hilarious performances of a few of the greatest Jewish comedians akin to Jerry Lewis, Buddy Hackett, and Rodney Dangerfield, amongst others. These early experiences helped form Mankoff’s view of life and led him to develop into a artistic grasp practitioner of humor and cartoons. He began his profession unexpectedly by quitting a Ph.D. program in experimental psychology at The Metropolis College of New York in 1974 and submitting his cartoons to the New Yorker. Three years and over 2,000 cartoons later, he lastly made the journal and has since printed over 950 cartoons. He has devoted his life to discovering simply what makes us snigger and seeks each outlet to take action, from creating The New Yorker’s net presence to founding The Cartoon Financial institution, a enterprise dedicated to licensing cartoons to be used in newsletters, textbooks, magazines and different media.

On this new guide, Have I Obtained a Cartoon for You! this profitable cartoonist, speaker and creator, presents his favourite Jewish cartoons. In his foreword to this entertaining assortment, Mankoff reveals how his Jewish heritage helped him to develop into a profitable cartoonist, examines the place of cartoons within the vibrant historical past of Jewish humor, and plumbs Jewish thought, knowledge and shtik for humorous insights.

Mankoff has written: “I all the time suppose that it’s unusual that the Jews, The Individuals of the E book, ultimately turned a lot better generally known as The Individuals of the Joke. Unusual as a result of laughter within the Outdated Testomony just isn’t an excellent factor: When God laughs, you’re toast. If you happen to say, ‘Cease me when you’ve heard this one,’ he does for good.” A serious affect on his cartoons about faith derives from Jewish tradition’s disputatiousness, the questioning all the things only for the hell of it after which the questioning of the questioning to be much more annoying.

He recollects: “When, I used to be first relationship my spouse, who just isn’t Jewish, we as soon as have been having what I assumed was an strange dialog and he or she stated, ‘Why are you arguing with me?’ I replied, ‘I’m not arguing, I’m Jewish.’ I assumed that was intelligent. She didn’t. Some humor students declare this stems from the follow within the Talmud of pilpul, which Leo Rosten has described as ‘unproductive hair-splitting that’s employed not a lot to radiate readability … as to show one’s personal cleverness.’ I associate with that besides I wish to suppose that some readability and cleverness are usually not mutually unique. Anyway, that’s my purpose in cartoons like these. Now, am I frightened that these jokes will convey His wrath down upon me down with a bolt from the blue. Not likely, however each time there’s a thunderstorm, I disguise within the cellar.”