The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg

The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg

As time spreads apart from the early part of the 20th century, we might as well consider it like worlds apart. The artists of the New Yorker in the early inception of the magazine planted and perfected what a New Yorker cartoon was supposed to be. Many will debate what is a true funny cartoon in that magazine. There is a sort of snooty feeling that if you don’t find the gag funny, then you are not educated enough to understand it. If you need time to think about the cartoon, then there is a problem. There are many occasions where you scratch your head and say, "i just don’t get it!". I truly believe the best thing to come out of that bunch of cartoonists was Charles Addams, purely based on originality and wide appeal. This book covers Peter Arno, William Steig and Charles Addams. Sure there was Syd Hoff and many cartoonists that graced the magazine. This book is a trip to a time that either is long gone or just as fresh as today, human nature is the best source in gags and you will find that most of the cartoons are still relevant today. This is the epitome and zenith that any cartoonist would want to achieve an emulate these masters, if you have not made it in the New Yorker and many tried then you have not reached the summit of cartooning. It does not mean you are a good cartoonist, it’s just a way to rub shoulders with people in the same field as you.