What is it that really makes us laugh? To find out, New Scientist visited Laughter Lab, an exhibition and social experiment at London’s Cartoon Museum. Showcasing a wide selection of cartoonists from ...

Have you ever wondered why I always start my newsletter with that salutation? Well, wonder no more. It’s because “laughter lover” is the English translation of philogelos, the Greek word that serves ...

Gigglebug, a newly released iPad app from Finland, uses infectious laughter to encourage social play among children. Through touching and swiping the screen, players can tickle various 2D animated ...

In honor of iGirl, here’s another installment of our weekly endeavor to make you laugh, have fun and in all cases waste time. I’m not ashamed to admit that I pretty much only read the cartoons in the ...

When thinking about New Yorker cartoons, I don’t think the word “offensive” often comes to mind. Or at least to most minds. But offensiveness, like love, is in the eye of the beholder, and there are ...

“Over the Hedge” (DreamWorks): In a year loaded with cute little talking cartoon characters, this comedy featuring the voices of Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling and Steve Carell was one of the top hits.

Art Young, Henry Glintenkamp and their colleagues at “The Masses” were eventually acquitted, but this WWI-era victory for freedom of the press was dampened when the Postal Service shut down the ...

I’m not sure even Disney knows about this… Thanks to animation historians David Gerstein and Cole Johnson, The Museum of Modern Art has just finished restoring two lost Laugh-O-Grams cartoons they had ...