New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff Is Stepping Down in May

Emma Allen will take his place

Bob Mankoff’s two-decade reign as cartoon editor of The New Yorker is coming to a close in May, when he is stepping down from his position to become a contributing artist, a move editor David Remnick punningly called “going back to the drawing board” in a note to staff.

Mankoff’s time in his role spanned two of the five New Yorker editors in the magazine’s history, something Remnick acknowledged in his note. “Bob has been a remarkable and innovative partner to me, as he was to Tina Brown,” he wrote.

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