It's really hard to be funny. It's even harder to be funny and get paid for it. But the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff, has made a living making people laugh for decades.

Perhaps that's why CAST, a software analysis company that services many financial firms, sent us these cartoons as a funny (but gentle) reminder of the problems electronic trading still has to tackle.

We have a boat load of new cartoons this week, and the most popular issue to illustate is the brutal government suppression in Syria. Other hot topics include the political in-fighting between GOP ...