Garbage Pail Kids

Park Hill Street Blues

Q&A with illustrator Art Spiegelman

"What was the best job you ever had? Mine was reading comics all day." That's how cartoonist Lynda Barry begins her comic-strip introduction as editor of The Best American Comics 2008, for which she chose the contents. And I suspect Art Spiegelman would agree, as I learned during a recent intervi ... More >>

Best Vintage Toys

Yankee Trader

Thou Art in Heaven

When it comes to Art Spiegelman, we’re not worthy!

The Pleasures of Your Company

These dudes turned late night into prime time.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of April 11, 2002

Of Mice and Men

From the week of April 11, 2002

Alphabets release party's like it's 1985

​You know what was awesome about 1985? It marked the first year we ever saw a Garbage Pail Kids trading card, which helped spawn an era of disgusting children's toys. From Madballs to Ren and Stimpy, kids in the '80s and '90s had plenty of gross stuff to choose from. This sort of inadvertently ... More >>

Raymond Scott's looniest tunes: An introduction

​The pianist and composer Raymond Scott, born Harry Warnow in Brooklyn in 1908, is probably best-known for his cartoon music, which he didn't even originally write for cartoons. But his history is way more more interesting than that: Scott was not only a pioneer in sound engineering and multi- ... More >>