Aging has always been comedy gold, and old-school cartoonists milked it for every giggle. From the 1800s into the early 1900s, illustrators cooked up hilarious sketches that smelled faintly of ink, ...

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 ...

Humor is both a creative and a cognitive process, says Bob Mankoff, who has contributed cartoons to The New Yorker since 1977. His memoir is... 'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get ...

Late Sherburne-based cartoonist Randy Glasbergen continues to make people smile. Glasbergen was one of the most widely read American cartoonists in the world, best known for drawing the syndicated ...

Animated cartoons of the 1970’s looked way different from they do now. There were few special effects beyond what animators were capable of drawing and sound effects were largely re-used time and time ...

Nordic humor is often seen as a little bit too dark for the rest of the world. Especially if you think about Iceland, the most sparsely populated country in Europe covered with glaciers and still ...

The scholar and literary critic examines a relationship dynamic that has inspired some of the most significant, and provocative, novels of the past three centuries. Even a child is unlikely to be ...

"If marketing kept a diary, this would be it." —Ann Handley, foreword to Your Ad Ignored Here: Cartoons From 15 Years of Marketing, Business, and Doodling in Meetings. With the yearend holidays fast ...

Intuitively we know humor helps us cope. Trust your instinct on this one, and you’ll be following the science that supports it. Of course, many challenging issues require your attention, but hopefully ...

An autism researcher on Kennedy’s initiative to identify a cause, the focus on environmental factors, and the dangers of misinformation. The New Yorker Radio Hour John Seabrook on the Destructive ...