If there’s a go-to song for times of personal or global stress, it has to be Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s haunting “Is That All There Is?,” memorably performed by Peggy Lee in the late ...

You know, you want to see yourself in cartoons. Maybe people will start to realize what a big deal animation is. That’s the first time you start to dream about being more than yourself, that’s ...

The following is a script from "The Cartoonist" which aired on March 23, 2014, and was rebroadcast on Aug. 17, 2014. Morley Safer is the correspondent. David Browning and Jonathan Schienberg ...

Humor is both a creative and a cognitive process, says Bob Mankoff, who has contributed cartoons to The New Yorker since 1977. His memoir is called How About Never — Is Never Good For You?

Morley Safer: Well, a friend of mine who's a New Yorker writer maintains there's at least one cartoon in every issue in which you're not meant to get it. David Remnick: I'm gonna keep that myth alive.