He shies away neither from harshness nor from unadulterated sweetness. He also writes great female characters.

William Steig, who over seven decades created many of New Yorker magazine’s best covers and cartoons and also wrote some of the most beloved of children’s books, including “Shrek” and the ...

A pair of wooden puppets, one lean and yellow, the other pink and plump, contemplate existential questions in Yellow & Pink (1984) by William Steig. (""I can't help ...

Hats are out. Except for baseball caps and Kangol caps, that is. But when William Steig, a Caldecott Medalist and famed New Yorker cartoonist, was 8 years old in 1916, everybody wore them. Hence the ...

William Steig (1907-2003) worked at The New Yorker for 73 years, and in that time the magazine published more than 120 of his covers and 1,600 of his drawings — not bad for the son of Eastern European ...

William Steig, who has died aged 95, was dubbed the "King of Cartoons" by Newsweek in 1995; he later became better known as the author of Shrek!, a children's story about a green woodland monster ...