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The Serious Business of 'New Yorker' Cartoons

"Cartoons either make the strange familiar or the familiar strange," says New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff in Leah Wolchok's documentary about the magazine's enduring cartoon department, Very Semi-Serious.

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Cartooning Against the Communists for the CIA

It's always strange to hear about artists in the pay of governments — the union seems so mismatched. In a recent interview with the Washington City Paper, cartoonist Chip Beck discussed using his pen to further the CIA's mission abroad.

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