Bob the Builder, Pocahontas and Buzz Lightyear are all helping children at Waikato Hospital to remain calm before surgery. The cartoon characters are part of a new collection of movies, purchased with ...

Many people dream about retiring at 40. However, Morgan Murphy isn’t one of those folks. But Murphy was resigned to ending her career as a television writer/stand-up comic when she had brain surgery ...

An Ohio doctor surprises his young surgery patients with hand-drawn dressings that feature the children’s favorite characters. After surgery, Dr. Robert Parry, of Akron Children’s Hospital, draws on ...

Throughout the day, New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff jots down ideas that strike him as funny: A door lies on a couch in a psychiatrist's office, and the psychiatrist says, "You're not crazy, you ...

In its final season, the TV sitcom Seinfeld did a send-up of the cartoons in The New Yorker. The magazine's comics are distinctive – short, quippy, topical, understated. Simply put, they're smart.