Appropriately, given its title, Very Semi-Serious also devotes a good amount of time to letting the cartoonists ruminate on the nature of humor. Some locate the root of their work in childhood, as a ...

Sitting in his office recently, the New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff pulled away from the drawing board directly in front of his chair to turn to the computer perpendicular to it. He had a ...

A (mostly) straight-faced movie about the art of being funny, Leah Wolchok’s “Very Semi-Serious” pulls back the curtain on the New Yorker’s venerable cartoon department and finds a world-class ...

“Very Semi-Serious” may be the funniest documentary ever made. How could it not be? It’s about the cartoons in The New Yorker. It’s also about the people who draw those cartoons and cartoon editor Bob ...

“A Savage Art” looks at the life of the prizewinning Pat Oliphant and argues such work is “a serious expression of a political thought.” By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an ...

STAMFORD, CONN. - A plan to open a National Cartoon Museum in Manhattan is more than a laughing matter to organizers such as Mort Walker, who created the Beetle Bailey comic strip. Comics tell the ...

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