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This month a signed and inscribed copy of Peter Arno's Sizzling Platter (1949) turned up on eBay. The book is inscribed to two people...

In 1930 Wood Kahler, author of a novel called Early to Bed, published Smart Setback. In reviewing it, the Philadelphia Inquirer called ...

This is where ordinarily I would publish my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #517 for April 11, 2016 but I didn't come ...

Amazingly, cartoonist Peter Arno has never been the subject of a biography—until now. Michael Maslin's Peter Arno:  The Mad, Mad Worl...

How do you sell a new cartoon book? Take a look at a few vintage ads and other promotions for books by Peter Arno. Whoops Dearie!,...