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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From a previously unpublished cartoon by Thomas Nast, an illustrator for Harper’s Weekly in the late nineteenth century.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 Lightness

by Catherine Meurisse,

A Charlie Hebdo cartoonist finds refuge from terror

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…

Never, Again

by Harper’s Staff,

From letters rejecting Art Spiegelman’s Maus, sent by editors at publishing houses to his agent in 1983. MetaMaus, a collection of interviews and documents about the development and publication of…

You’re a good man, Charlie Schulz

by Ivan Brunetti,

LBJ in caricature

by Jules Feiffer,

John Held’s mad world

by Russell Lynes,

Jules Feiffer and the almost-in-group

by Julius Novick,