caricatures and cartoons

Presents eighty-one years of cartoons from The New Yorker Magazine since its creation in 1925, brief profiles of major cartoonists, and a DVD-ROM with 70,363 cartoons.

Defines and examines various modes of twentieth-century visual humor, including whimsy, wit, parody, irony, satire, and nonsense, and illustrates how they are expressed through paintings, sculpture, comic strips, and other art forms.