"Celebrating wit and the people who make us laugh." That's what A Matter of Wit is about, according to editor and publisher Frances Koltun. She adds that the staff of A Matter of Wit has assembled an anthology of the writing and art of masters, past and present: witty stories, features about writers, and illustrations.

There are one hundred ad-free pages of "sophisticated, literate, breezy, knowing, effervescent" wit. This is a magazine for people who like to read. Sophisticated illustrations and cartoons are interspersed throughout the title.

The editor continues: "Wit is the aristocratic aspect of comedy and it has been around for centuries. It flourishes among the bright, the intelligent, the well-educated. The 18th-century genius, Dr. Samuel Johnson, loved to exchange flying words. Benjamin Disraeli, the great 19th-century British prime minister, was known as the wittiest politician of them all. Oscar Wilde was such a brilliant conversationalist that hostesses hushed up their gatherings when he began to speak."

A Matter of Wit is notable because it is just plain different. Whether the reader has hours to sit back and read, or just a few minutes, A Matter of Wit offers intellectual stimulation and enjoyment through lengthy features and short, eye-catching pull-out quotes. And don't forget those cartoons.

One feature in A Matter of Wit covers the "glittering age of caricature" and how artists of the 1920s and 1930s gave the image of celebrity a vivid new glow. It showcases the works of Miguel Covarrubias, Al Hirschfeld and Will Cotton, among others.