Robert Mankoff is the current cartoon editor for The New Yorker magazine. Before he succeeded Lee Lorenz as editor, Mankoff was a cartoonist for The New Yorker for 20 years.
As a young man, Mankoff was a competitive athlete in basketball and track and field both, and he once ran an undocumented wind-aided 10.02 in the hundred meters.
Mankoff founded the online Cartoon Bank.[1]
He compiled The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker, which has every cartoon published since the magazine was founded (in the book or in one of the two accompanying CDs). He is the author of The Naked Cartoonist: A Way to Enhance your Creativity.
As a lecturer on the appreciation of humor, he is represented by the Leigh Bureau.
He was mentioned in MC Paul Barman's song "Cock Mobster" on the album "Paullelujah!"