If This Is Wednesday, It Must Be New Yorker Cartoons Pitch Day
A highlight of last night’s 60 Minutes profile of New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff is the portion where Morley Safer sits in on the weekly Wednesday illustrator pitches.
One of the drawings submitted on this particular day hinged on, as is so often the case, a very clever cultural observation:
Mankoff: The apes are saying [to Tarzan]: “We found you and raised you as one of us. So we were just wondering at what point did you learn to shave?”
Artist Joe Dator: Can I say I have researched this? There is no iteration of Tarzan in literature, comic books or the movies in which he has facial hair.
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
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