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Iain Topliss

Iain Topliss is an Adjunct Research Fellow in English & Creative Writing at La Trobe University, and author of The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).

Essays & reportage Iain Topliss 10 November 2025 The cartoonist’s dazzling artwork and salty wit combine to great effect
Essays & reportage Iain Topliss 24 February 2025 Is The Brutalist’s most important character absent from the screen? Essays & reportage Iain Topliss 18 December 2024 Whether comical or conceptual, political or geographic, Saul Steinberg’s drawings extend the viewer’s horizons Books & arts Iain Topliss 2 May 2013 Iain Topliss visits Saul Steinberg’s 1958 panorama, The Americans, on show in Cologne Books & arts Iain Topliss 7 April 2013 The British illustrator’s weightless characters have moved into a world beyond books
Books & arts Iain Topliss 27 April 2012 Iain Topliss revisits Marcel Carné’s classic, Les Enfants du Paradis Books & arts Iain Topliss 15 December 2011 Iain Topliss looks at why we don’t – and shouldn’t – speak the same language, and how Russian has no single word for blue From the archive Iain Topliss 17 February 2011 Jules Feiffer, the cartoonist who made anxiety funny