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Conciliatory Trophies for Millennials

Advanced skin care, free shipping, and more.
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My Strict Morning Routine

Before getting up, I like to lie under the covers for thirty minutes meditating, which is really just a fancy word for “falling back asleep.”
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A Quick Refresher on the High-School Math You’ve Forgotten

It’s good to know pi to at least twenty decimal places, in case a math sergeant ever asks you to drop and give them twenty digits of pi.
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Starting a Garden

What with all the flowers, you’ve now got a bee problem. How do you handle this?
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We Regret to Inform You That You’re Still Just a Person

Congratulations on your Pulitzer! Unfortunately, the automated D.M.V. queue doesn’t care for nuanced storytelling.
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Daily Cartoons

1/15

“No good beach reads.”
Cartoon by Ellis Rosen

America!

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Biden Defuses Geopolitical Tensions by Getting Into Prop Comedy

Things are getting mighty serious. It’s time for a paradigm shift—and a great leap.
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Midsummer Rituals of Subway Riders

Leaping over a bonfire, frolicking around a Maypole, and other things that would be less gross than what is really happening underground in N.Y.C. this summer.
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A Chaos Demon from the Underworld Shares His Tips on Streamlining Congress

I’m truly inspired by the surreal dysfunction of your Congress—but isn’t it a little over the top?
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Other Eccentric Tycoons Who Have Ruined Things

For example, Jedediah Humble founded the Humblebrag Institute, transforming our conversational landscape.

Comics

Sketchbook

Mort Gerberg: The Person Who Pushes the Pen

A comic précis of the illustrious life of the longtime New Yorker cartoonist.
Sketchpad

High-Roller Presidential Donor Perks

Give now to get your name on the wing of a fighter jet!
Blitt’s Kvetchbook

Bottoms Up!

The Alitos toast to Independence Day.
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America!: Republican Vice-Presidential Candidates Compete for Trump’s Favor in the Thunderdome

It’s the same as the real world, but more steampunk—so, worse.

More Humor

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A Brief History of Our Family-Owned Chip Company

It all started when Daddy bought too many potatoes.
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Reading “The Power Broker” Has Changed My Life

I’ve also found that the book works great as a tofu press or a yoga block.
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Parents in a Chain

The great zucchini-bread disaster of 2024 and other mishaps, on a group text of moms and dads after the library bake sale.
Blitt’s Kvetchbook

Send In the Clowns

Don’t bother, they’re here.
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Self-Help Books from Ancient Times

“The Ultimate Detox from Feudalism,” “Stop Overthinking and Start Impaling,” and other gems.
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Six Eerie Predictions That Early Sci-Fi Authors Got Completely Wrong

The Turbo Fridge, a shoe that does your taxes, and other future-tech that never came to be.
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Rating Strangers in My Neighborhood

The overly friendly Trader Joe’s cashiers, the dogs in baby strollers, and more.
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Middle-Age Fantasies

Which is hotter? Talking geopolitics with the sexy nurse, or finding that the alluring young babysitter likes your unpublished novel?
Culture Desk

When Dads Cry: A Memoir in Man Tears

My wife sees it as an expression of feelings-friendly masculinity to be modelled for our two still-impressionable boys.
Culture Desk

Dry Ice and Rose Petals: An Entrance Fit for the Father of the Bride

And did I mention the fireworks? Lighting your way down the aisle!