Kiev, Ukraine

This conceptual “anti-smoke pack” by Reynolds and Reyner employs dark humor that goes straight to the point. According to the World Health Organization, tobacco use kills more than 5 million people per year—that’s 1 death every 6.3 seconds. It is responsible for 1 in 10 adult deaths, and among the five greatest risk factors for mortality, it is the single most preventable cause of death.

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These made me smile…

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“Weapons of Mass Creation” is a poster series by Justin Kamerer (aka Angryblue) that juxtaposes creative tools with destructive weapons (two posters from the series are shown here). The posters are for sale as limited edition screen prints…

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—H. L. Mencken

London, U.K.

Ronald Searle, the British cartoonist and caricaturist whose outlandishly witty illustrations for books, magazine covers, newspaper editorial pages and advertisements helped define postwar graphic humor, died on Friday (3 January) in Draguignan, in southeastern France, where he lived. He was 91.

Lampooning the foibles of the English class system as well as clerics, politicians and even other artists, Mr. Searle was often described as a latter-day version of the 18th-century British graphic satirist William Hogarth. His cartoons combined an ear for linguistic nuance with a caustic pen and brush. With just a few well-placed lines, he pierced the facades of his targets without resorting to ridicule or rancor…

Read the rest of a tribute by Steven Heller in a New York Times obituary here. View a wonderful, recent interview with Ronald Searle here.