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Shouts & Murmurs

Choose Your Own Adventure: Starting a Garden

What with all the flowers, you’ve now got a bee problem. How do you handle this?
Shouts & Murmurs

We Regret to Inform You That You’re Still Just a Person

Congratulations on your Pulitzer! Unfortunately, the automated D.M.V. queue doesn’t care for nuanced storytelling.
Shouts & Murmurs

A Brief History of Our Family-Owned Chip Company

It all started when Daddy bought too many potatoes.
Shouts & Murmurs

Reading “The Power Broker” Has Changed My Life

I’ve also found that the book works great as a tofu press or a yoga block.
Shouts & Murmurs

Parents in a Chain

The great zucchini-bread disaster of 2024 and other mishaps, on a group text of moms and dads after the library bake sale.
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Daily Cartoons

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“Is it the Fourth of July already?!”
Cartoon by P. C. Vey

Rocket’s Red Glare

Shouts & Murmurs

I Am the Fireworks Man

Hello, I am the man who’s been setting off fireworks right outside your window for the past two weeks!
Shouts & Murmurs

Ways to Eat a Pack of Ten Hot Dogs and a Pack of Eight Hot-Dog Buns Without Having Any Extra Hot Dogs Left Over

The mathematically optimal solution of four hot-dog packs and five hot-dog-bun packs does not solve the problem, as having forty hot dogs and forty hot-dog buns is undesirable for most households.
Shouts & Murmurs

America!: A24 Acquires the Rights to a New Film About July 4th at Mar-a-Lago

Featuring talking animals, creepy children, pagan worship, witch hunts, and more.
Shouts & Murmurs

The Most American Recipes for Your Fourth of July Cookout

What to eat and drink while listening to your father-in-law talk about the Second Amendment.

Comics

Sketchpad

High-Roller Presidential Donor Perks

Give now to get your name on the wing of a fighter jet!
Blitt’s Kvetchbook

Bottoms Up!

The Alitos toast to Independence Day.
Shouts & Murmurs

America!: Republican Vice-Presidential Candidates Compete for Trump’s Favor in the Thunderdome

It’s the same as the real world, but more steampunk—so, worse.
Sketchbook

Meet My TV Boyfriend

A wood-panelled cathode-ray television set that lived on my bed—not as much fun as it sounds!

More Humor

Blitt’s Kvetchbook

Send In the Clowns

Don’t bother, they’re here.
Shouts & Murmurs

Self-Help Books from Ancient Times

“The Ultimate Detox from Feudalism,” “Stop Overthinking and Start Impaling,” and other gems.
Shouts & Murmurs

Six Eerie Predictions That Early Sci-Fi Authors Got Completely Wrong

The Turbo Fridge, a shoe that does your taxes, and other future-tech that never came to be.
Shouts & Murmurs

Rating Strangers in My Neighborhood

The overly friendly Trader Joe’s cashiers, the dogs in baby strollers, and more.
Shouts & Murmurs

Middle-Age Fantasies

Which is hotter? Talking geopolitics with the sexy nurse, or finding that the alluring young babysitter likes your unpublished novel?
Culture Desk

When Dads Cry: A Memoir in Man Tears

My wife sees it as an expression of feelings-friendly masculinity to be modelled for our two still-impressionable boys.
Culture Desk

Dry Ice and Rose Petals: An Entrance Fit for the Father of the Bride

And did I mention the fireworks? Lighting your way down the aisle!
Culture Desk

Lying to My Dad

I’d become everything to him—a fun-house mirror, constantly contorting to fit his needs.
Blitt’s Kvetchbook

Alito, Roberts, and Thomas See the Sea

Summer recess for the Supremes.
Shouts & Murmurs

It’s Time to Schedule Your Annual Friendship Checkup

What is your current employment status?