Paul Noth is a writer and artist whose cartoons appear regularly in the New Yorker . He won the 2025 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Noth has co-created animated shorts for Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O'Brien . He has also developed shows for Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and Nickelodeon and is the author of the acclaimed middle grade graphic novel trilogy How to Sell Your Family to the Aliens . His Novus series of educational comic books is used in classrooms across the United States to teach financial literacy. In 2026, the Museum of Wisconsin Art named Noth the inaugural Cartoonist Laureate for the state of Wisconsin.