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<p><p>for Many Readers Of The New Yorker Magazine, The Drawings Of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, And Saul Steinberg Epitomize Its Sophisticated Wit And Disarming Humor. In The Comic Worlds Of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, And Saul Steinberg, Iain Topliss Considers The Work Of Each Artist, Traces The Development Of His Art, And Recalls The Cultural And Social Context In Which It Was Created.</p></p> <h3>library Journal</h3> <p>any Constant Reader Of The New Yorker Recognizes These Four Names As Signatures On The Iconic Single-panel Cartoons That Have Made The Magazine A Byword For Style And Wit.the Individual Artists, However, Have Received Uneven Analysis Through The Years. Topliss (la Trobe Univ., Melbourne, Australia) Aims To Analyze Not Only The Psyches Of The Four Cartoonists, Whose Works Span The Magazine's Lifetime, But Also To Scrutinize How The New Yorker Developed The Cartoon Medium As A Window Into Our Modern Culture. Violence Done To The Clich Is How Addams Describes These Mini-dramas, And Topliss Sees In The Humor Of The New Yorker A Singular Tool To Combat Received And Automatic Opinion-an Enterprise That Can Be Intensely Vivifying. Although

Author

Iain Topliss

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801887536