Illuminating the bright-idea symbol.

Cute, skinny and scantily clad, flappers gave the rough-and-tumble funnies a much-needed sexual charge.

Zigzagging with Lydia Davis' short-short (short) stories.

Favourite target of a well-hurled bootjack, alley cats are one of the most punished cartoon creatures.

Three entries from Christopher Miller's acclaimed new novel.

When getting clubbed by police was funny.

The Cloud of Altercation: How do you depict prolonged, intense brawling in a single cartoon panel?

Fact behind the new literary fiction

Lydia Davis' Samuel Johnson is Indignant

Excerpts from a musical novel