Robert Mankoff is the cartoon editor of The New Yorker. He is also a cartoonist, and more than 900 of his cartoons have been published in the magazine in the past thirty years, including the best-selling New Yorker cartoon of all time. He is the author of the book The Naked Cartoonist, published in 2002, about the creative process behind developing magazine-style cartoons. He has also edited dozens of cartoon books and published four of his own.

Danny Shanahan has published more than 800 cartoons, covers, and illustrations in The New Yorker since 1988. His work has also appeared in many other publications, including Time, Newsweek, Playboy, Esquire, and the New York Times. Shanahan has illustrated several children's books, has had four collections of his own cartoons published, and has had work exhibited in museums and galleries, from London and Berlin to New York and San Francisco.