Caricatures and cartoons

Itchy Nose

By Kazuto Tatsuta,

When a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, Tokyo artist Kazuto Tatsuta (a pen name taken from the Tatsuta train station in Fukushima) wanted to help…

Aline & Bob

By R. Crumb,

Mad Magazines

By Jonathan Guyer,

To Laugh That We May Not Weep

By Art Spiegelman,

Art Young would have turned 150 years old this month, and the finest gift we could have given him is Bernie Sanders’s campaign to welcome socialism back into America’s parlor…

Lipstick

By Luz,

By Luz, from Catharsis, his memoir about the terrorist attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in January. Luz, a cartoonist for the magazine, was late to work on the…

The Joke

By Justin Smith,

By Justin E. H. Smith, from “The Fundamentals of Gelastics,” a work in progress. Smith’s latest book, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference (Princeton), will be published in June. In…

Gateway to Freedom

By Eric Foner,

On September 4, 1838, a twenty-year-old fugitive slave named Frederick Bailey arrived in New York City. He had long hoped to escape from bondage, gazing out at the ships on…

A child ponders the ruins of the 21st century

Drawn by Ben Katchor,

One year since the collapse . . .

Drawn by David Rees,

Depression funnies

Drawn by Ruben Bolling,

Untitled

Art by Steve Brodner,

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