Ed Arno's Most Wanted

Ed Arno's favorite cartoon creation is his criminal series which is being gathered for the first time here in book form. Arno identifies with the wit and pathos of these mute, caption-less images which document humor's conquest over tyranny. Although many of these appeared in The New Yorker and in the crime-books section of the New York Times Book Review, they really have their origin in Arno's own incarceration in a concentration camp in WWlI. Arno's work was a favorite of Joseph Cornell, Charles Addams, and even Arthur Rubinstein, who set two Arno children's books, The Magic Fish and Gingerbread Man, to music.