George Price's Characters

A single, landmark 1955 volume from Simon and Schuster, George Price's Characters collects the best of Price's long-running New Yorker cartoons, focusing on his uniquely downtrodden, eccentrically ordinary cast of suburbanites and city dwellers. This collection preserves the work of the cartoonist most associated with a particular strain of mid-century American humor—wry, meticulously detailed, and gently mocking of modern life's small absurdities. It remains a key document of a master gag cartoonist's singular vision.