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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).

Retrospective Iain Topliss 18 March 2026 The British illustrator’s weightless characters have moved into a world beyond books
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 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