It feels we are gradually returning to business as usual; more people are back in the office, and most students are back in the hallways. Classroom teaching is back! But keeping students’ attention and helping them retain information may be harder than ever. During the lockdown, students had few outlets and were more glued to…
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Cartoons for Doctors: Presenting with Humor
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“Drinking Like Fish” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
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If you’re a practicing lawyer, chances are you’ve made many presentations, whether to a jury, a client, or a board of directors. You’ve probably sat through mandatory continuing education programs, wondering why the presentation isn’t more engaging. A PowerPoint consisting of nothing but charts and text can be painfully dull; soon the audience checks out….
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“Mailman” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
In Drew Panckeri’s cartoon, a man who’s sitting on his front step as if it were a throne is holding an icicle as if it were a scepter. He’s flanked by five vaguely threatening snowmen, and they’re all looking at a postal worker who’s delivering the mail. The man who would be king is addressing…
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Remembering Gahan Wilson
Dear cartoon lovers, Gahan Wilson, one of the great greats of the art of the single-panel cartoon, died last week. I knew him as a colleague and friend and was his editor at The New Yorker from 1997 to 2016, where he published over six hundred cartoons. This was the last cartoon he published there…
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Anatomy of a Cartoon: Thanksgiving Themes
Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind gags to debate what makes a cartoon tick. This week our intrepid critics take a look at Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving-themed images provide plenty of material for cartoonists to work with: turkeys, Pilgrims, family dinners, the Macy’s parade, football on T.V. And, like any good storyteller writing fiction,…
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“Tech Shadow” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
With all due respect to great Dave Borchart, what the hell is going on in his drawing? Two men are having lunch on a park bench on a sunny day. Shadows of both men appear on the wall behind them, but the shadow of the man on the left is full of text and pictures,…
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