From lobbyists gutting science bills to Congress not knowing the Earth is round, have a sigh and a chuckle at the punchlines in these entries in the Union of Concerned Scientists anti-science cartoon ...

If you love clever, laugh-out-loud single-panel cartoons, then you’re in for a treat because today we’re diving into the world of Lynn Hsu—one of the sharpest cartoonists out there. Lynn is a regular ...

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It’s an article of faith in literary circles that the proper way to read the New Yorker is to start with the cartoons and then place the magazine atop a neat pile of older issues and wait for nuclear ...

Scott Simon speaks to writer and director Owen Kline about his new movie, "Funny Pages," in which a young cartoonist explores the relationship between creativity and craft. "Funny Pages," a new film ...

“Laughter and mirth are not the same thing. I can elicit laughter by electrically stimulating parts of the brain,” the neurologist Richard Restak said the other night, onstage at the Rubin Museum.

This week, we have a jumbo dose of Tom Gauld, who has been producing weekly cartoons for New Scientist for the past few years. “I like being the funny guy in the midst of a thoughtful magazine,” he ...

Under a thick Lowry rain cloud in Bloomsbury, central London, a small crowd shake out umbrellas, shuffle into a museum shop and are instantly warmed at the postcard stands: Donald McGill’s lewd ...

Throughout the day, New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff jots down ideas that strike him as funny: A door lies on a couch in a psychiatrist's office, and the psychiatrist says, "You're not crazy, you ...

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