The New Yorker was a common token among the aspirant middle class in the neighborhood. I learned to leaf through it backward, for the cartoons and for Pauline Kael. Yet I missed Anderson’s piece ...

So it’s only fitting that The New Yorker magazine would cover transit in exactly the same way. Since the magazine began a century ago, it has featured cartoons that both rib and extol public ...

NEW YORK CITY ... Museum and The New Yorker is highlighting the humor, challenges and century's worth of insights into the daily grind of commuting in the city through cartoons.

These drawings bred the humor that defined The New Yorker in its early years; they endure in their brilliance. Thurber invented the one-liner gag cartoon as we know it today. (It used to be more ...