How to Draw Literary Cartoons. By Emma Allen and Amy Kurzweil. February 2, 2021. Save this ... What’s your favorite New Yorker cartoon trope or cliché (e.g., desert island, grim reaper, ...

“The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons,” edited by Bob Mankoff (Pocket Books, 105 pages, $19.95). Adam and Eve, unshockingly naked, sit in a grove of shedding apple trees.

Cartoonist Tom Gauld has a new book out for October 2022 from Drawn & Quarterly, Revenge of the Librarians. A collection of cartoons with a literary theme. Confront the spectre of failure, the ...

Collected in Literary Lives (Bloomsbury, $14.95), Edward Sorel's cartoon treatments of great authors -- plus Ayn Rand -- remind us of the frequent disconnect between superior writing and sensible ...

For the first day of Page-Turner, our new books blog, we asked cartoon editor Bob Mankoff to make a selection of New Yorker cartoons about the literary life. Here are his picks.

Used as both a teaching device and a subtle nod to adult viewers, literary references have long been a keystone feature in cartoons. Here are some you might have missed the first time around.

The cartoon turns Shakespeare’s drama on its head. A tragedy of passion and illicit love becomes a comedy of awkward political courtship. Miliband, in need of a partner, is but a poor Romeo.

In the world of cartoons, where a Tasmanian devil can spin into a twister and a rabbit can squabble merrily with a hunter, there is no sorrier figure than Wile E. Coyote. The calamitous desert dog ...

Over the past decade, Mr. Sattouf, 46, has become one of France’s biggest literary stars, thanks largely to his masterwork, “The Arab of the Future,” a series of graphic memoirs.