Gary Larson's The Far Side tackled several subjects over the years, though his particular take on music appealed to a number ...

Objects come from the magic briefcase that I carry around. One time, I gave a guy a surprisingly massive parrot. Don’t ask me how it fit in the briefcase.

It's really hard to be funny. It's even harder to be funny and get paid for it. But the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff, has made a living making people laugh for decades.

Juggling life and work as an artist feels like trying to juggle a live, squirming human child and Schrödinger’s theoretical cat. I read and reread Philip Roth’s book to try to understand the ...