Caricatures and cartoons

Artistic Differences

by Thomas Nast,

From a previously unpublished cartoon by Thomas Nast, an illustrator for Harper’s Weekly in the late nineteenth century. The sketch, completed in 1870, depicts Nast drawing on a woodblock while…

The Big Frieze

by Dan Brooks,

Cartoonist Ben Garrison’s MAGA in winter

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,

In troubles with money

Mad Magazines

by Jonathan Guyer,

Underground comics come to Egypt

To Laugh That We May Not Weep

by Art Spiegelman,

A nearly forgotten cartoonist we need to look at — right now!

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,

The origins of the Underground Railroad

A child ponders the ruins of the 21st century

Drawn by Ben Katchor,

One year since the collapse . . .

Drawn by David Rees,

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