All in Line

“Steinberg’s work remains timeless—because he understood that a drawing, rendered with absolute precision, could capture truths about human experience that no other medium could reach. All in Line isn’t just a collection of cartoons; it’s the blueprint of a singular artistic mind learning to navigate between many worlds.” —Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker“Steinberg’s 1945 monograph, All in Line, is now out in a new edition from New York Review Books; the introduction is by the New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck. It’s a rare look into the mind of an artist who drew himself as a cat, a dog, and a fish, and who designed 85 New Yorker covers.” —Elena Clavarino, Air Mail

Saul Steinberg (1914-1999), famed worldwide for giving graphic definition to the postwar age, had one of the most remarkable careers in American art. While renowned for the covers and drawings that appeared in The New Yorker for nearly six decades, he was equally acclaimed for the drawings, paintings, prints, collages, and sculptures he exhibited internationally in galleries and museums. His book The Labyrinth was reissued by New York Review Books in 2018.

Liana Finck is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and the author of several books of comics, most recently the graphic novel Let There Be Light. She currently teaches English at Barnard College. She lives in New York City.

Iain Topliss is the author of The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.