The New Yorker’s Ninetieth: Cartoons from 1985 to 1995

It’s 1985! Only three decades to go. Time flies when you’re recounting fun. In a time of shoulder pads and frizzy hair, our cartoonists kept their hair straight and their shoulders unpadded, creating some of the funniest cartoons in the history of The New Yorker. Bruce Eric Kaplan, Arnie Levin, Victoria Roberts, and Danny Shanahan are just some of the people whose work helped to make the magazine’s cartoons what they are today.

In 1993, the magazine published one of Bob Mankoff’s most famous cartoons—you’ll probably recognize it in the slide show. If you don’t get it, you can set up a meeting with Bob himself, but you’ll have to check his availability first.