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 ...

The '90s were a strange time. In a time of relative peace, the '90s saw massive leaps in technology and pop culture. Beginning the new decade, Gary Larson embraced the fast-moving changes of the ...

Simply sign up to the Work & Careers myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Amy Hwang started her career in architecture before becoming a cartoonist full time. Based in New York, her work ...

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 ...

Census takers in east China's Shandong Province are brought together to watch cartoons, not for fun, but as part of their training for the once-a-decade census in China, which begins in November. The ...

In its final season, the TV sitcom Seinfeld did a send-up of the cartoons in The New Yorker. The magazine's comics are distinctive – short, quippy, topical, understated. Simply put, they're smart.

It's really hard to be funny. It's even harder to be funny and get paid for it. But the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff, has made a living making people laugh for decades. He says there ...

On TikTok there are exceptional "testimonials" like Nikola Tesla or Marie Curie delivering short science-related messages that have garnered millions of views. This is just one of many examples where ...

Cartoon women are inherently difficult subjects for the animator for the reason that animation demands caricature and comedy, which are concepts inconsistent with femininity, grace and sensuality. The ...