Available for the primary time to The New Yorker’s 1,000,000-plus readers: a volume dedicated to the person careers of the magazine’s caricature superstars.
Widely regarded as to be the pantheon of single-panel cartooning, The New Yorker cartoonists’ styles are richly varied, and their personal stories are surprising. For instance, were you aware that Arnie Levin is a seventy-three-year-old former Beatnik painter with a handlebar mustache and a back decorated by Japan’s foremost tattoo artists?
Gehr’s book features fascinating biographical profiles of such artists as Gahan Wilson, Sam Gross, Roz Chast, Lee Lorenz, and Edward Koren. At the side of a dozen such profiles, Gehr provides a brief history of The New Yorker caricature itself, touching at the lives and work of in advance illustrating wits, including Charles Addams, James Thurber, and William Steig.