Peter Arno

Arno, along with Helen Hokinson and Chas Addams, was one of the classic NEW YORKER cartoonists in their glory years. Arno's forte was sexual innuendo, especially among the sorts of New Yorkers with trust funds, and women who were, as the saying used to go, "no better than they should be." I shall treasure to my dying day a young Arno "lady" explaining to a group of earnest investigators that "I didn't know he was a Communist. We NEVER talked politics." And why should they have? But the chivalric urge was not dead in Arno's time. One of his characters explains to another "I never told her about the Depression. She would have worried." Another observes of a passing bathing-suited beauty "I'd even dip into capital for that one!"This is a "best of" culled from about a dozen out of print collections. It misses a few of my particular favorites, but that's inevitable. If you haven't met Arno, this is a good place to start. If you have, the odds are pretty good this still includes enough you haven't seen to make it a good purchase.

I perceive Arno as more charicaturist , and less a humourist . This is a comprehensive collection .

A great collection of Peter Arno's work. Really enjoyed his cartoons!

These are classic humor drawings - most of them timeless. Arno saw himself as an artist, and deserves to be known as an artist. They are also examples of wonderfully pointed humor.

The book was advertised as new. It was not. It is heavily marked up and the jacket is heavily worn out.

Very funny!

Great book

Arno was a cartoonist for NEW YORKER magazine for his entire career which started in 1925 and only ended with his death in 1968. He came from a society family, and those he satirized in his cartoons were members of New York's social set. Family, so to speak.Many of his cartoons seemed to be just simple line drawings. Looks, however, are often deceiving. He knew exactly what he wanted and he would often rework the same cartoon hundreds of times to achieve the exact effect he was looking for. He was known to work up to forty hours at a stretch in order to get just the right result.His style was unique, and almost anyone who has seen even a few of his cartoons can identify his work on sight. His cartoons satirize the foibles of New York's upper crust, but never in a mean or cruel way. There's a touch of love and a touch of naivete in even his most risque cartoons.PETER ARNO, after a short introduction lets the approximately 250 cartoons that comprise this book speak for themselves.One cartoon really is worth a thousand words, so I won't try to describe individual cartoons here. In other words, in order to get the true impact out of these cartoons you've got to see them. If you're lucky enough to find a copy of PETER ARNO by Peter Arno, I'd recommend that you grab it up, sit back, and have a few good chuckles.

I have just found these again. We had his books when I was a child and they are still funny (though I suspect I understand them better now!) Considering they are 60+ years old, they are remarkably modern. Perhaps things have not changed as much as we think they have.

Great value, thank you!