Occupation: Cartoonist Birth: May 1, 1944
Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Ste….
There are no cartoons about happy marriages..
Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had..
When you look back at the older cartoons, they're very much more observational cartoons. And the cartoon, the people in the cartoons are not making t….
The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have much mor….
Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer..
I've learned not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Why you would want to look any horse the mouth considering how infrequently they brush is beyond ….
None of the cartoons that I ever did are basically, if they're about sex, they're about sex in sort of this, you know, this ironic way, or the way th….
I think The New Yorker's cartoons aren't very political because the people who do the cartoons aren't awfully political people, and they aren't paid ….
While the end-of-the-world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, we believe that the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented oppo….
It's not the ink, it's the think..
I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things, all these guilt….
I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I'm going to stop here..
It's always harder satirize what you like rather than what you dislike..
Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This su….
Sometimes you're noodling around with a sketch and something incongruous in the drawing calls forth the caption and other times you think of a line a….
I have a cartoon where the guy is pretty much, he's a regular-sized guy, but he's the size of the island. He's saying no man is an island, but I come….
I do find that humor helps in relationships. It certainly helps in my marriage now because I'm a very, very fallible person. And if I wasn't funny I'….
People think you get one idea for a cartoon every week, and that's not the way it works. You usually get 10 or 15, and you're - certainly when I was ….
I'm really interested in the link between creativity and humor because humor is a type of creativity, and I do think that humorous people and humorou….
As a cartoonist I do what I find funny. As an editor I have a broader approach realizing that humor is inherently subjective and I don't want my pref….