Funny / The New Yorker

• A cartoon George Booth did for the magazine depicts a man on the porch of a beach-house hunched over a typewriter, while a woman stands next to him with a sandwich on a plate..
  "I've got an idea for a story: Gus and Ethel live on Long Island, on the North Shore. He works sixteen hours a day writing fiction. Ethel never goes out, never does anything except fix Gus sandwiches, and in the end she becomes a nympho-lesbo-killer-whore. Here's your sandwich."
• Another classic, by Carl Rose and E. B. White, shows a mother and her young child eating dinner:
  "It's broccoli, dear."
  "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."
• Charles Addams had many of these. One classic example would be the cartoon of the Addams Family preparing to pour boiling oil from the roof of their house onto a group of Christmas Carolers at the front door (a gag re-used for the opening of the 1991 Addams Family film).
• The Nov 17, 2003 cover deserves special mention for being done by none other than Gary Larson of The Far Side fame. Only he could depict cowboys drawing caricatures of each other as a Showdown at High Noon.

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