TALK: New Yorker Cartoon Editor Robert Mankoff & Art Critic Ken Johnson

What makes a picture funny? Can satire happen without words? Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker, and Ken Johnson, former art critic for The New York Times, and will discuss visual art and humor as part of the New York Academy of the Art's Art & Culture Lecture Series.

After quitting a Ph.D program in experimental psychology at The City University of New York in 1974, Mankoff began submitting 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. 

Johnson began producing an online comic called Ball and Cone (ballandcone.tumblr.com) in 2013. In 2011, his book “Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art” was published by Prestel Books.

When: Wednesday, Jan. 18, 6:30 pm

Where: New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin St.

The event is free.

For more information, go to: nyaa.edu/visual-art-and-humor-a-discussion