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...former editor-and-chief of New York magazine and co-founder of Inside.com) and Andy Borowitz `80 (a regular contributor to the New Yorker and NPR’s Weekend Edition) because in every time of darkness, dark humor comforts where platitudes disgust. The humor magazine The Onion is doing its patriotic duty and, thanks to a mainstream media obsession with irony’s supposed death, future or second coming, the business of funny commentary is a widely captivating trade these days...
...figured our fans would wonder what we were going to do, but the amount of hits we got was pretty amazing,” says Maria Schneider, a 10-year veteran of the writing staff of the popular humor newspaper, The Onion. “People just wanted to see some humorous content. We’ll maybe try to point out things that the mainstream media hasn’t pointed...
...with representatives from Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia, Italy, France and England. (All the works are in English.) Not surprisingly the comix themselves are as unconventional as their package. One book has been designed to look like screen shots of a lost Atari 2600 video game about a prince and an onion-soup-loving demon. Andrej Stular's "Hole" has a single panel per page - an inky, scratchy image of urban grief accompanied by a word or phrase that may or may not connect to the next page. Most of the works follow absurd or dreamlike structures. It seems to be part...
...Onion held off on putting out an issue right after the events of Sept. 11, but when it went online last Tuesday, featuring articles directly addressing the attack on America—”Holy Fucking Shit”—the website was mobbed with readers. Some 399,791 people visited the site in just...
DISPATCHES FROM THE TENTH CIRCLE: THE BEST OF THE ONION...