The desert island cartoon is one of those clichés we'd never thought to analyze too deeply until we read a smart cartoonist doing so, and now we're fascinated. New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff ...

Almost every day on The Desert Sun’s opinion page, you’ll see an editorial cartoon. They’ve long been a staple of newspapers and can make points about political or social issues in ways words can’t.

Some might think of it as torture fit only for Bugs Bunny. In a reprise of the "Sahara Hare" cartoon, three ultra-endurance athletes ran 4,000 miles across the Sahara Desert. It was the equivalent of ...

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The Golden Knights and Las Vegas hit the jackpot. Review-Journal editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a three-time winner of the Sigma Delta Chi Award.

Kaamran Hafeez has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 2010. Previously, he created and drew a digitally syndicated panel, “Bozo,” for Universal Uclick’s GoComics Web site.

Over the weekend, we asked for cartoons from Coachella Valley residents. And you're starting to deliver. Here's the first one we're publishing, from Ross Hawkins of Palm Desert. I enjoy how it ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon in which our perception of an image differs from objective reality. This image is seen as a visual Illusion of a Cartoon-Style Desert Scene during Sunset.

Monday means Off Brief! – a cartoon by Nic Atkinson that takes a light-hearted poke at marketing and advertising. This week, Nic illustrates the very definition of social media addiction.

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I once did a search [on our database] and I think the year of the greatest popularity of desert-island cartoons in The New Yorker is 1957, when 17 appeared. Why a spike in 1957? I wonder if it was ...