Throughout the day, New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff jots down ideas that strike him as funny: A door lies on ... He's consulting his calendar and saying into the phone: "No, Thursday's ...

It’s a question that, apparently, haunted Phil Witte and Rex Hesner — so much so that they wrote a book about it, “Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons.” Not that it was ...

The cartoon is an opportunity to deconstruct funny, as Mankoff does in his blog. He offers a cartoon summary of the Seinfeld episode for those of us who can't remember the pig. In the episode ...