Arno In German
Even though my days of feverishly researching Peter Arno are long past, I can’t resist getting hold of any Arno title I’ve never seen before. Somehow, this 1983 German paperback, Peter Arno Cartoons, escaped me until recently (it’s still in Germany at the moment, but heading west to Spill headquarters). Thanks to Google’s translation feature, I believe the banner at the bottom right reads something like, “The famous illustrator from/of The New Yorker.”
The laughing man on tv drawing originally appeared on the cover of The New Yorker way way back in September of 1950:
Looking again at this cover (the Spill library has it both as a single issue and within a bound volume) I can’t help but be blown away by Arno’s outstanding command of design. He give us so much using just a handful of elements.
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Peter Arno’s A-Z entry:
Peter Arno Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr., January 8, 1904, New York City. Died February 22, 1968, Port Chester, NY. New Yorker work: 1925 -1968. Key collection: Ladies & Gentlemen (Simon & Schuster, 1951) The Foreword is by Arno. For far more on Arno please check out my biography of him, Peter Arno: The Mad Mad World of The New Yorker’s Greatest Cartoonist (Regan Arts, 2016).