We talked with Mr. Mankoff, who officially departs at the end of April, about some of his favorites from among the hundreds of his own cartoons that have appeared in The New Yorker, “wonky humor theory” and that time he discovered that one of his punch lines had been repurposed on a thong. The excerpts here have been edited and condensed.
曼科夫将在4月底正式离职,我们和他谈了他在《纽约客》上发表的数百张卡通中他最心爱的作品、“扭曲幽默理论”(wonky houmor theory),还有他曾发现自己的笑话被用在丁字裤上。下面是经过编辑的对话节选。
“This is my most famous cartoon, and the punch line has been ripped off on T-shirts, even a thong. That one is a little tricky — why would you have that on a thong? I now own the trademark to the phrase. Initially, the Trademark Office denied it, but I was able to show that my cartoon is actually where this phrase, which has been cited many times, comes from.”
“那是我最著名的卡通,点睛那句话被拿出来用在T恤衫甚至丁字裤上。这个有点难理解——丁字裤上为什么要有这种东西?我现在拥有那句话的商标。最初,商标局不承认它,但我能够证明这个被多次引用的短语确实来自我的漫画。”
“One of the things you do as a cartoonist is look inside the language. You see a phrase like ‘the language of dance’ and you ask: ‘Is that a real language? Can anyone talk in it?’ One of the interesting things about cartoons is that they are a freeze-frame. Each one has the potential for broader elaboration. You can almost see this one as the premise for an improv skit.”
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