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The incredible, wild life of Peter Arno, the fabled cartoonist whose racy satire and bold visuals became the unforgiving mirror of his times and the foundation of the New Yorker cartoon.In the summer of 1925, The New Yorker was struggling to survive its first year in print. They took a chance on a young, indecorous cartoonist who was about to give up his career as an artist. His name was Peter Arno, and his witty social commentary, blush-inducing content, and compositional mastery brought a cosmopolitan edge to the magazine's pages—a vitality that would soon cement The New Yorker as one of the world's most celebrated publications. Alongside New Yorker luminaries such as E.B. White, James Thurber, and founding editor Harold Ross, Arno is one of the select few who made the magazine the cultural touchstone it is today. In this intimate biography of one of The New Yorker's first geniuses, Michael Maslin dives into Arno's rocky relationship with the magazine, his fiery marriage to the columnist Lois Long, and his tabloid-cover altercations involving pistols, fists, and barely-legal debutantes. Maslin invites us inside the Roaring Twenties'cultural swirl known as Café Society, in which A

Author

Michael Maslin

Publisher

New York: Regan Arts

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781942872627

Subjects

Memoir, Humor, Crafts & Hobbies

Rating

3.11 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14