Have I Got a Cartoon for You! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Have I Got a Cartoon for You! write by Bob Mankoff. This book was released on 2019-09-15. Have I Got a Cartoon for You! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bob Mankoff grew up Jewish in Queens, NY in the 1950s and 1960s. As a kid, he visited the Borscht Belt and reveled in the hilarious performances of some of the best Jewish comedians such as Jerry Lewis, Buddy Hackett, and Rodney Dangerfield, among others. These early experiences helped shape Mankoff's view of life and led him to become a creative master practitioner of humor and cartoons. He started his career unexpectedly by quitting a Ph.D. program in experimental psychology at The City University of New York in 1974 and submitting his cartoons to the New Yorker. Three years and over 2,000 cartoons later, he finally made the magazine and has since published over 950 cartoons. He has devoted his life to discovering just what makes us laugh and seeks every outlet to do so, from developing The New Yorker's web presence to founding The Cartoon Bank, a business devoted to licensing cartoons for use in newsletters, textbooks, magazines and other media. In this new book, Have I Got a Cartoon for You! this successful cartoonist, speaker and author, presents his favorite Jewish cartoons. In his foreword to this entertaining collection, Mankoff shows how his Jewish heritage helped him to become a successful cartoonist, examines the place of cartoons in the vibrant history of Jewish humor, and plumbs Jewish thought, wisdom and shtik for humorous insights. Mankoff has written: "I always think that it's strange that the Jews, The People of the Book, eventually became much better known as The People of the Joke. Strange because laughter in the Old Testament is not a good thing: When God laughs, you're toast. If you say, 'Stop me if you've heard this one, ' he does for good." A major influence on his cartoons about religion derives from Jewish culture's disputatiousness, the questioning everything just for the hell of it and then the questioning of the questioning to be even more annoying. He recalls: "When, I was first dating my wife, who is not Jewish, we once were having what I thought was an ordinary conversation and she said, 'Why are you arguing with me?' I replied, 'I'm not arguing, I'm Jewish.' I thought that was clever. She didn't. Some humor scholars claim this stems from the practice in the Talmud of pilpul, which Leo Rosten has described as 'unproductive hair-splitting that is employed not so much to radiate clarity ... as to display one's own cleverness.' I go along with that except I like to think that some clarity and cleverness are not mutually exclusive. Anyway, that's my aim in cartoons like these. Now, am I worried that these jokes will bring His wrath down upon me down with a bolt from the blue. Not really, but every time there's a thunderstorm, I hide in the cellar."
The Cat in the Hat.
The Cat in the Hat. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cat in the Hat. write by Dr. Seuss. This book was released on 1985. The Cat in the Hat. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the cat who shows them some tricks and games.
How About Never—Is Never Good for You?
How About Never—Is Never Good for You? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How About Never—Is Never Good for You? write by Bob Mankoff. This book was released on 2014-03-25. How About Never—Is Never Good for You? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New Yorker People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best jobs in the world. With the help of myriad images and his funniest, most beloved cartoons, he traces his love of the craft all the way back to his childhood, when he started doing funny drawings at the age of eight. After meeting his mother, we follow his unlikely stints as a high-school basketball star, draft dodger, and sociology grad student. Though Mankoff abandoned the study of psychology in the seventies to become a cartoonist, he recently realized that the field he abandoned could help him better understand the field he was in, and here he takes up the psychology of cartooning, analyzing why some cartoons make us laugh and others don't. He allows us into the hallowed halls of The New Yorker to show us the soup-to-nuts process of cartoon creation, giving us a detailed look not only at his own work, but that of the other talented cartoonists who keep us laughing week after week. For desert, he reveals the secrets to winning the magazine's caption contest. Throughout How About Never--Is Never Good for You?, we see his commitment to the motto "Anything worth saying is worth saying funny."
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
We're Going on a Bear Hunt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We're Going on a Bear Hunt write by Michael Rosen. This book was released on 2009-01-01. We're Going on a Bear Hunt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We're going on a bear hunt. Through the long wavy grass, the thick oozy mud and the swirling, whirling snowstorm - will we find a bear today?
Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me
Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me write by Eric Carle. This book was released on 2015-08-04. Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a book with foldout pages, Monica's father fulfills her request for the moon by taking it down after it is small enough to carry, but it continues to change in size.
