Cartoon mascots, but the old guard will not go quietly,” he remarked, leading up to another quick song. A series of mayors then burst onto the scene after Mulaney talks about the city post-9/11.

In 1974, Bob Mankoff began creating original cartoons and submitting them to magazines around New York City. In 1977, he sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker, and within three years he became ...