Then with my pen and paint I light up my thoughts into a Limertoon Limertoon’, the portmanteau of limerick (a five-line poem with rhyme scheme AABBA) and cartoon, was coined by the man who loves ...

In its final season, the TV sitcom Seinfeld did a send-up of the cartoons in The New Yorker. The magazine's comics are distinctive – short, quippy, topical, understated. Simply put, they're smart.

Kids believe some wacky things, but who among us hasn’t been certain they were an official grown-up long before they entered adulthood? The screaming will quickly remind you. Sure, this marriage ...

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 ...