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DIED. WILLIAM STEIG, 95, humanely perceptive cartoonist and illustrator for the New Yorker for seven decades, known as the King of Cartoons; in Boston. After joining the magazine in 1930, Steig produced some 1,700 drawings and cover illustrations, often featuring humorously worldly children he called Small Fry who exposed the craziness of modern life. At age 60, he began a successful second career writing children's books. Among them: Shrek, a tale of a green ogre, which was turned into a 2001 Oscar-winning animated film, and Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, which won the prized Caldecott Medal...
...subpar eyeballs, but the slew of shark-frenzy jokes, which were a little too close to one another. That fear of becoming a hack, in the end, is what made him determined never to draw again. The one exception might be a possible cover for the upcoming New Yorker cartoon issue, which his publisher has bullied him into. It's a better fit for him than family newspapers, which sometimes wouldn't run his gallows humor, although he recently let his New Yorker subscription lapse. "I'm not into cartoons," he says. "That's the irony...
...Patrick McDonnell, of "Mutts," turns in a charming confection about the moon's rather silly fear of the dark. Other contributions include the ghoulish tale of a children's graveyard party, written by Neil Gaiman ("Sandman: Endless Nights") and drawn by Gahan Wilson, a long-time "Playboy" and "New Yorker" cartoonist known for his grotesqueries. While the all-ages target of "Little Lit" means that some pieces are more difficult and other very simple, none of the works can be called un-intelligent or boring. It's a delight...
Rennick's day job and hobby are closely related; it's not uncommon for hobbyists to choose pastimes similar to their work. Some even use hobbies as an excuse to put off retirement, like New Yorker Arnold Greenberg, 68. Eighteen years ago, the onetime lawyer bought a popular travel bookstore on New York City's Madison Avenue. Now he works five days a week, covering his acquisitions in clear Mylar covers and talking with buyers about Baedeker's guides. He has no thoughts of stopping. "I just signed a new lease. Let's just hope I live that long...
Said was awarded a number of prizes for his work, including Sultan Owais Prize (the premier literary prize of the Arab world), the Spinoza prize and the New Yorker Book Award for Non-Fiction for his 1999 memoir Out of Place. That same year, he was named president of the Modern Languages Association...