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Article: Grown-Ups Get to Do All the Driving.(Children's Review)
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- Newsweek
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- May 15, 1995
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Steig's latest book, Grown-Ups Got to Do All the Driving (HarperCollins. $15), provides an excellent chance to see how far he's come. A series of variations on the theme of how children see adults ("Grown-ups make you go to the dentist," "Grown-ups are always weighing themselves"), the book harks back to Steig's 1944 collection, "Small Fry," a series of conventionally drawn comic visions of childhood. In the new book, Steig is not looking at childhood; his identification with kids as underdogs ("Kids have to live with adults," he points out) is complete. More important, the deceptively relaxed drawing, somehow both knowing and innocent, carries more than half the load. You ...
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Article: Steig, William (H.) 1907-2003
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...STEIG, William (H.) 1907-2003 OBITUARY NOTICE ... Cartoonist, illustrator, and author. Steig was best known as an award-winning cartoonist ... who encouraged their son to be an artist, Steig attended City College (now of the City University ...
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