They seem like vestiges of the past: mechanical devices full of gimmicks, elaborate color comics in Sunday papers, fanciful ...

Rube Goldberg had an amazing 72-year career as a cartoonist. Throughout his career, he drew an estimated 50,000 cartoons, both political and otherwise. Rube won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for ...

DECATUR — The point of a Rube Goldberg is to create the most complicated machine you can, to do the simplest task you can imagine. Named for cartoonist Rube Goldberg, the machines perform chain ...