You may have noticed on this site an occasional mention of the Peter Arno biography I’ve been working on for the past 15 years. If so, you’ll understand that this is one of those light-at-the-end-of-the-publishing-tunnel moments: the reveal of the cover. The manuscript is now in the galley phase; the book itself will be showing up in your local bookstores
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New Yorker’s Special True Crime Reader of Writing & Cartoons
Just out, The New Yorker Reader: True Crime, an anthology of writing and cartoons with these 36 cartoonists represented: Charles Addams, Peter Arno, Charles Barsotti, Harry Bliss, David Borchart, Michael Crawford, Leo Cullum, Drew Dernavich,
Read moreBook of Interest: King of the Comics
King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate, due in November from IDW Publishing (they’re the folks who brought us the fabulous Cartoon Monarch: Otto Soglow and The Little King), this looks to be a must have for every cartoon library. Do Peter Arno’s Whoops Sisters, syndicated briefly by King in the 1930s, make an appearance? We’ll
Read moreIn an Arno Mood
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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