Available for the first time to The New Yorker's one million-plus readers: a volume dedicated to the individual careers of the magazine's cartoon superstars.
Widely considered to be the pantheon of single-panel cartooning, The New Yorker cartoonists' styles are richly varied, and their personal stories are surprising. For example, did you know that Arnie Levin is a seventy-three-year-old former Beatnik painter with a handlebar mustache and a back decorated by Japan's foremost tattoo artists?
Gehr's book features fascinating biographical profiles of such artists as Gahan Wilson, Sam Gross, Roz Chast, Lee Lorenz, and Edward Koren. Along with a dozen such profiles, Gehr provides a brief history of The New Yorker cartoon itself, touching on the lives and work of earlier illustrating wits, including Charles Addams, James Thurber, and William Steig.
| ISBN: | 9781477801154 |
| Publication date: | 27th March 2018 |
| Author: | Richard Gehr |
| Publisher: | Amazon Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 242 pages |
| Genres: |
Biography: writers Strip cartoons Humour collections and anthologies |