Bob Mankoff, it seems, is a cartoonist down to his chromosomes. It’s both this book’s greatest virtue and its greatest flaw. If only we could know what he REALLY thinks about colleagues and forebears.

The most famous line Bob Mankoff has ever written, as spoken by a cartoon executive at a desk, is: “No, Thursday’s out. How about never—is never good for you?” So it seems somehow in tune that ...

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Appropriately, given its title, Very Semi-Serious also devotes a good amount of time to letting the cartoonists ruminate on the nature of humor. Some locate the root of their work in childhood, as a ...