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, ...

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 ...

Cartoons have been running alongside television for nearly as long as the medium has existed, with some decades, like the 1980s and 1990s, bringing iconic shows that are still fondly remembered years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If only it were that easy! We all could use a bit of humor in our lives — especially when it comes to dieting. As it turns out, it ...

A single-panel cartoon leaves very little room to hide. With just one image, sometimes accompanied by a few words, the entire ...

If it seems like technology and cartoon humor don't fit as well together as crusty old millionaires and big-boob gold-diggers, it's probably true. The principles that drive tech innovation are based ...

Ellie Kemper and Daniel Radcliffe, stars of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend,” team up for The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest. A drawing that riffs on the latest news and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Attending Robert Mankoff’s class is more like seeing a stand-up comedy show than going to lecture. In his course, you don’t have to politely chuckle when the professor makes a bad joke. There’s ...

"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 ...