Foreword by Matt GroeningAvailable for the first time toThe 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 Yorkercartoonists’ styles are richly varied, and their personal stories aresurprising. For example, did you know that Arnie Levin is aseventy-three-year-old former Beatnik painter with a handlebar mustacheand a back decorated by Japan’s foremost tattoo artists?Gehr’sbook features fascinating biographical profiles of such artists as GahanWilson, Sam Gross, Roz Chast, Lee Lorenz, and Edward Koren. Along with adozen such profiles, Gehr provides a brief history ofThe New Yorkercartoon itself, touching on the lives and work of earlier illustratingwits, including Charles Addams, James Thurber, and William Steig.