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,

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…