PANEL SURFING

When New Yorker contributing artist Bob Mankoff noticed five years ago that he and his cartooning colleagues were producing more work than could be published, he created The Cartoon Bank (www.cartoonbank. com), a database of more than 20,000 panels from such artists as Roz Chast and New Yorker cartoon editor Lee Lorenz. Now Mankoff has collected 100 drawings from the Bank that satirize the computer world in E-MAIL.THIS.BOOK! (Knopf, $17). A companion CD-ROM for PC and Mac enables readers to save panels onto their hard drives and even E-mail them to friends. Though most of the work strikes dead-on, it's the cockeyed humor of Mankoff himself, with its droll hybrid of pointillism and social commentary, that elicits the biggest laughs. A