Honestly, I’ve been in a Peter Arno mood for a very long time. It was just about sixteen years ago that I decided to write the biography of The New Yorker‘s greatest artist. One of the bonuses of digging deep was coming across little known (to me) books or pamphlets that bore Arno’s cover art and/or illustrations. One of his
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Regan Arts to Publish Maslin Peter Arno Biography, Mad At Something
I’m pleased to announce that Mad At Something, my biography of the late and very great New Yorker cartoonist, Peter Arno will be published by Regan Arts. Arno is one of the pillars of The New Yorker‘s earliest days, a group that includes Harold Ross, E.B. White, Katharine White, and James Thurber. Ross, the magazine’s founder and first
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Peter Arno was born today in 1904. To read more please go to New Yorker Cartoon Editor, Bob Mankoff’s blog on The New Yorker’s website, where you’ll find my Introduction to Arno’s biography, Mad At Something.
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