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'Observer' Offered Cleaning Lady Half The Pay Before Firing

A little bit more on the New York Observer‘s firing of the long-time cleaning lady: apparently the paper’s owner, Donald Trump’s maybe-soon-to-be son-in-law Jared Kushner, offered her the possibility...

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He Resides In A Subaquatic Tropical Fruit

If you’re like me, one of your favorite ways to unwind in the evening is to get super-high and watch Nickelodeon cartoons. (I think “Fairly OddParents” is nothing short of genius, but I am generally...

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Draftsman Somehow Causes Mild Amusement

File this under things I thought I would never type, but today’s cartoon by Sean Delonas, the New York Post “illustrator” whose crimes against both art and taste are too numerous to elaborate upon in...

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Fags Confused About When They Like Being Called Fags

This summer, gay group GLAAD, which concerns itself with “gay representation” in the “media,” announced that they were horribly offended by something! Again! “In a July 22 comic, The Denver Westword...

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Kurt Westergaard And The Panic Room

I’m more than a little troubled/confused by the story of Kurt Westergaard, the Danish cartoonist who survived an attack this Friday from an axe-wielding critic by hiding in a semi-fortified panic room....

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Rum, Sodomy & the Lash, with Jim Behrle: Doppelgänger Wëëk

Jim Behrle!

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Rum, Sodomy & The Lash: Oscars Reax!

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'Futurama' Returns: Now More Than Whenever

Nerds: they talk about nerd things. Here, nerds Becky Ferreira and Miles Klee discuss the return/reboot of Futurama, now airing its sixth season on Comedy Central. Miles Klee: Becky! I was...

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When Kanye Met Eustace

You probably didn’t think you need this, but you do: Kanye West’s tweets as New Yorker cartoons. Memeriffic? Close enough!

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Man Explains Joke To Other Man Who Claims Not to Get It

“While I really can only speak for myself–and, to an extent, for my friends Josh Cagan and Storm DiCostanzo, the other two initial developers of the meme–I would say (hopefully in a slightly more civil...

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Cartoon Explains Census Math Sampling!

We’ve all been enjoying the Times‘ block-by-block flash map thing of America. But let’s not forget that it’s based on sampling. Here’s a cartoon about that!

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Two Cartoon Interpretations Of Fox News'"The War On Men" Article

There are several puzzling parts in Suzanne Venker’s article “The war on men” from this weekend, not least this paragraph: “In a nutshell, the women are angry. They’re also defensive, though often...

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The Alien Mysteries of Easter Island

The caption above, selected from a pool of hundreds in the New Yorker’s caption contest #378, and then voted to the top of the pile by New Yorker readers, is reasonably witty on the surface, insofar as...

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The Politician Full Of "Hot Air"

This cartoon caption, submitted by Lynn Tudor, of New York, N.Y. and then selected from a pile of hundreds and voted to the top by New Yorker readers, is deft political satire masquerading as daft...

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Checking In With My Pile Of Rejected 'New Yorker' Cartoons

In 2012, in a rare moment of actual confidence, I mailed an envelope of cartoons to famous New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff (who, for the short number of weeks surrounding this event, I...

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How "Adventure Time" Came To Be

Adventure Time is a smash hit cartoon aimed primarily at kids age six to eleven. It’s also a deeply serious work of moral philosophy, a rip-roaring comic masterpiece, and a meditation on gender...

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Objects Uncovered During the Excavation of Your Childhood Bedroom

Hallie Bateman is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist based in Brooklyn. She is on Twitter and Instagram. She doesn’t want your attention but she needs it.

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A Marilyn Manson Creation Myth

Sara Lautman draws.

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How to Make a Spooky Last-Minute Ghost Costume

Hallie Bateman is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist based in Brooklyn. She is on Twitter and Instagram. She doesn’t want your attention but she needs it.

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The Shopping Games

Hallie Bateman is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist based in Brooklyn. She is on Twitter and Instagram. She doesn’t want your attention but she needs it.

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