Cartoonist and writer Liza Donnelly began drawing some 60 years ago, when she was around 7, after her mother gave her a book by James Thurber. She started tracing his art, and it made her mom smile.

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... 'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get ...

Here’s one thing to keep in mind about this week’s controversial New Yorker cover: A Pew poll released last week shows that 12 percent of Americans still think Barack Obama is a Muslim (and one ...

A (mostly) straight-faced movie about the art of being funny, Leah Wolchok’s “Very Semi-Serious” pulls back the curtain on the New Yorker’s venerable cartoon department and finds a world-class ...