Almost every day on The Desert Sun’s opinion page, you’ll see an editorial cartoon. They’ve long been a staple of newspapers and can make points about political or social issues in ways words can’t.

The desert island cartoon is one of those clichés we'd never thought to analyze too deeply until we read a smart cartoonist doing so, and now we're fascinated. New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff ...

Like the famed creator of World War II’s Willie and Joe comic strip, Staff Sgt. Chris Grant is putting pen and ink on paper to humorously capture the feelings, desires and daily routine of soldiers ...

You’d think by now, in a world equipped with G.P.S. and Google Earth, cartoonists would have wrung every last drop of humor from the premise of castaways marooned on desert islands. After all, they ...

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Some might think of it as torture fit only for Bugs Bunny. In a reprise of the "Sahara Hare" cartoon, three ultra-endurance athletes ran 4,000 miles across the Sahara Desert. It was the equivalent of ...

Filmmaker and editorial cartoonist Aurel will follow up his César-winner “Josep” with “Desert,” an animated Western set in France’s Cevennes mountain range. Pitched between a more traditional oater ...

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I once did a search [on our database] and I think the year of the greatest popularity of desert-island cartoons in The New Yorker is 1957, when 17 appeared. Why a spike in 1957? I wonder if it was ...