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    <heading>What's the deal with New Yorker cartoons?</heading>
    <description>It's hard to find funny young people who can make a living cartooning, Remnick says.</description>
    <person>DAVID REMNICK</person>
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    <heading>Cartooning for Life</heading>
    <description>Robert Mankoff was always funny, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that his path to the New Yorker was an easy one - he submitted 2,000 cartoons to the magazine before being published.  He charts his cartooning career and explains the unique struggles of being a cartoon editor.</description>
    <person>ROBERT MANKOFF</person>
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    <heading>New Yorker Cartoons Are Easy to Write</heading>
    <description>The author of &quot;I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President&quot; disses New Yorker cartoons.  </description>
    <person>JOSH LIEB</person>
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