Matt: OK. Now I have to ask some really tough questions. The two cartoons of mine that I included in the book - Why didn’t you buy those?

Bob: They were just too funny.

Matt: Too funny?

Bob: Which ones were they?

Matt: One of them was the two pigeons on a high ledge overlooking the city and one is saying to the other, “I’d say my biggest influence is probably Pollock.”

Cartoonist Matthew Diffee interviews Robert Mankoff of the New Yorker, [part 1], [part 2], [part 3].