Many of Gary Larson's cartoons revolve around animals acting like humans, but the ones featuring penguins are some of the ...

Summer is the perfect time to embrace your funny bone! With warm weather, beach days waiting to happen and family ready for weekend getaways in the fresh air, there’s no better time to add laughs to ...

The weekly magazine, started in 1925, is using crowdsourcing algorithms for the first time to find the funniest cartoon captions. Scientists see big potential in these jokes. Ben Fox Rubin was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bob Mankoff has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker ever since 1977 and now, as cartoon editor, he evaluates more than 500 cartoons submitted to the magazine each week. Mankoff is proud of ...

Gary Larson's The Far Side is known for its bizarre and sometimes unsettling humor, making spiders the perfect subject for ...