When thinking about New Yorker cartoons, I don’t think the word “offensive” often comes to mind. Or at least to most minds. But offensiveness, like love, is in the eye of the beholder, and there are ...

Ever wish your daily doomscrolling came with a little more joy and a lot more terrible wordplay? I’ve got you covered. Hi! I’m Lisa from LEFD Designs, an Australian illustrator and graphic designer ...

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 ...

The animated anthology Cartoons: No Laughing Matter? is aptly named. Its eight British and American shorts offer a few chuckles, though mostly of the ironic or bitterly bleak variety. But the majority ...

One of my friends commented, as I was gushing over my Kindle, that one of its drawbacks was that nobody can see what you're reading. How, he wondered, can you impress people on the train with your ...

One would think that a thirteen-and-a-half-minute supercut of Daffy Duck laughing maniacally would get repetitive, but the Warner Bros. animators never seem to run out of ideas. For each one of ...

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