I Only Read It for the CartoonsI Only Read It for the Cartoons

Available for the first time to The New Yorker’s one million-plus readers: a volume dedicated to the individual careers of the magazine’s cartoon superstars.

Widely considered to be the pantheon of single-panel cartooning, The New Yorker cartoonists’ styles are richly varied, and their personal stories are surprising. For example, did you know 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. Along with a dozen such profiles, Gehr provides a brief history of The New Yorker cartoon itself, touching on the lives and work of earlier illustrating wits, including Charles Addams, James Thurber, and William Steig.

A celebration of the cartoonists who have helped define The New Yorker combines a brief history of The New Yorker cartoon with engaging profiles of such artists as Sam Gross, Lee Lorenz and Edward Koren. 25,000 first printing.
Celebrates the cartoonists who have helped define "The New Yorker," including Sam Gross, Lee Lorenz, and Edward Koren, and provides a brief history of the cartoon's role in the publication.
At last—a spotlight on the flesh-and-blood cartoonists whose sensibilities have helped define The New Yorker.