Cartoons

WaterTower Music has announced the digital release of the official soundtrack album to Looney Tunes Cartoons. The series, produced by Warner Bros. Animation and now streaming on HBO Max, is comprised of new short-form cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and other iconic and beloved Looney Tunes characters. The soundtrack, that serves as the musical backdrop to the new series, features 26 tracks of music created by composers Joshua Moshier and Carl Johnson.Both composers shared their passion for the project and honored the legacy of composer Carl Stalling, the composer for the original Looney Tunes shorts produced by Warner Bros. Stalling was said to have averaged one complete score each week, for 22 years.

People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best jobs in the world. With the help of myriad images and his funniest, most beloved cartoons, he traces his love of the craft all the way back to his childhood, when he started doing funny drawings at the age of eight. After meeting his mother, we follow his unlikely stints as a high-school basketball star, draft dodger, and sociology grad student.

Robert Mankoff is a "triple threat" in the cartooning world. He is cartoon editor of The New Yorker, founder and president of The Cartoon Bank, and a wonderful cartoonist. He is the editor of numerous New Yorker cartoon collections, most recently The New Yorker Book of Technology Cartoons, The New Yorker Book of …