The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg.(Brief article)(Book review)

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The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig,

Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg

Iain Topliss

Johns Hopkins University Press

2715 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

0801880440, $45.00 www.press.jhu.edu

Fans of the New Yorker will readily recognize the names of illustrators Addams, Steinberg and Topliss; but outside of the magaz...

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