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When the National Cartoonists Society has its annual conference in August, it will confer on cartoonist Jeff Smith its Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award. Smith has produced many fantastic comics,

Your Painting, Sir is the very first "desperate butler hastily putting together art forgeries to pass off to his blind boss" simulator ever.

A BOLO can't bring him down. Ben Palmer returns with a fresh batch of fake ICE calls, which are hilarious as they are worrying.

Since the 1960s, Britons have been growing up with Quentin Blake's fabulous illustrations to books by Roald Dahl, Joan Aiken, Elizabeth Bowen, Sylvia Plath, William Steig, and even the first ...

Last April, a powerful spring snowstorm swept across parts of the Alps, triggering dangerous avalanche conditions in multiple regions. In some areas, avalanche danger reached Level 4-5 on Europe's standard ...

At the Svaram Sound Garden in Auroville, simple sculptures combine sound and art in a mesmerizing way. In this video, a visitor strikes a stone instrument with a smaller stone.

Milan is repairing the worn-out testicles of a mosaic bull on the floor of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, reports Taimaz Szirniks for the AFP. The casualty of a good-luck ...

The US Layoffs Tracker is updated daily with the latest disclosures under the WARN Act, which requires employers with 100 or more workers to give 60 days notice before major ...

This weekend's Blue Moon, the second full moon in one month, is also a micromoon, because it is at the moon's apogee, the furthest point from Earth in its orbit.

In March 1935, Sue Bonnie pushed through three feet of snow to her friend's cabin on Fryer Hill outside Leadville, Colorado. She and Tom French broke a window and found ...