I once did a search [on our database] and I think the year of the greatest popularity of desert-island cartoons in The New ... If it bends, it's funny... Read the whole thing at Vanity Fair.

Throughout the day, New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff jots down ideas that strike him as funny: A door lies on ... Or, two guys crawling through a desert encounter one of those orange cones ...

It’s a question that, apparently, haunted Phil Witte and Rex Hesner — so much so that they wrote a book about it, “Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons.” Not that it was ...