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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,

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 ...

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 ...

In bridge, a heart trick earns 30 points while a club trick earns 20, numbers that mean nothing outside of the game. That's the whole point, argues philosopher C. Thi ...

Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography, by Joshua Kendall, was released this week by Abrams Press. It's a thoroughly researched biography of cartoonist Garry Trudeau and his epic, massively influential comic ...

The old clown photos in TASCHEN's The Circus. 1870s-1950s are incredible. A lot of the clowns look more fantastical than funny, with smeared makeup, giant costumes, and intense expressions. Some ...

Today's enormous shadow libraries -- Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and the rest -- trace back to Soviet samizdat, the underground practice of typing forbidden books onto carbon paper and passing the ...

The BBC's Human Planet showed a Korowai family in Papua climbing a bamboo ladder into a hut roughly 100 feet up in an ironwood tree, while the narrator declared height ...

Here's a terrific search hack for the Internet Archive Book Images Flickr photo stream, courtesy of a kind Redditor.

A centaur is a person assisted by a machine -- anything from a bicycle to a spell-checker. A reverse centaur, Cory Doctorow says, is "a person who has been conscripted ...