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If you’re weeping with distress at your team’s defeat, you slip the big cartoon hand off in order to place your head in your real ones. But it all begs the question, why? The foam finger began ...

Welcome to our Dallas Morning News Caption Contest, where we invite you to collaborate with cartoonist Scott Stantis to create the best and funniest cartoon possible. Here are the rules ...

The following is the third of three excerpts from Keith Houston’s new book, Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks. Unlike the pilcrow, which ...