The comic worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg
What's billed as the first full-scale scholarly study of the subject assesses the four New Yorker cartoonists' work, their development, and the social and cultural contexts that made them funny. Topliss (communication, arts, and critical inquiry, La Trobe U., Melbourne, Australia) considers the general nature of humor and draws particular attention to the way the four artists mocked the status quo without alienating the upscale magazine's readers; he argues that in fact New Yorker cartoons
Print Book, English, 2005
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2005