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

In comedy, timing and context are everything. Humor doesn’t operate in a vacuum. I know: I’ve tried, and I couldn’t breathe. Lots of contextual factors influence both the transmission and the ...

For years now, a handful of code-breakers near and far have been toiling in obscurity and trying to come up with one of the keys to the universe: To what single caption can every New Yorker cartoon be ...

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 ...

Brendan Leonard has written a weekly column at his website semi-rad.com since February 2011, along with being a regular columnist at Outside. Brendan Leonard’s new book, Bears Don’t Care About Your ...

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 ...

"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 ...