This post features the funniest dark humor comics from What’s Left Comics, where the jokes are sharp, the punchlines are twisted, and nothing—including your fragile sense of optimism—is safe ...

The Grim Reaper shows up often in pandemic cartoons — whether to provoke or provide dark humor. May 6, 2020 (Adam Zyglis/Buffalo News/CagleCartoons.com 2020) ...

Gahan Wilson, whose macabre cartoons were a mainstay in magazines including Playboy, the New Yorker and National Lampoon, has died at 89. Gahan Wilson, magazine cartoonist with dark sense of humor ...

In the paper, dark humor is defined as “a kind of humor that treats sinister subjects like death, ... Apparently, Stein’s cartoons are pretty twisted, even by German standards, ...

Rockit is the dim captain of space station R.U. Sirius. A crew member tells him about dark matter and dark energy, the "ninety-six percent of the universe that’s missing." As always, Rockit comes back ...

The Birth of Venus (2014), cover illustration for The New Yorker.. As a girl, Ms. Chast was drawn to the ghoulish humor of Charles Addams. “He was jolly—dark, and cheerful at the same time ...

Harry Bliss has contributed cartoons and covers to The New Yorker since 1998. He is the author, with Steve Martin, of “A Wealth of Pigeons.”He also wrote the memoir “You Can Never Die” (2025).