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illiam Steig wanted to be a seaman like Melville, but during the Great Depression, he needed to make money to support his mother, father, and his younger brother. He'd done some cartoons for his high-school newspaper, so he decided to try to sell cartoons. He sold a couple of them to The New Yorker, and then he submitted a cover. They said, "We like the idea but not the execution. Will you sell the idea?" He said, "Let me think about it." Then he went home and told his mother. She told him not to sell his idea. Never sell an idea. So he told The New Yorker that, and they bought the picture anyway!
And that's how it all began for Mr. Steig—he started publishing drawings in The New Yorker in 1930. But it wasn't until 1968, when he was sixty years  old, that he published his first children's book, Roland the Minstrel Pig. Two years later, he won the Caldecott Medal for Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. Being one of those rare talents who could both write and draw, in addition to a Caldecott Honor for The Amazing Bone, Steig also won two Newbery Honors, one for Abel's Island and the other for Doctor De Soto. |
We at Pippin Properties consider Wiliam Steig the grandfather of our company--dear friend, dear client, and extraordinary artist--we miss him enormously.
But we are delighted to represent William Steig's later classics:
Wizzil (illustrated by Quentin Blake)
Potch and Polly (illustrated by Jon Agee)
Grown-Ups Get to Do All the Driving
The Zabajaba Jungle
Made for Each Other
Sick of Each Other
A Gift from Zeus, written by Jeanne Steig
Which Would You Rather Be?, illustrated by Harry Bliss
and his picture-book memoir, When Everybody Wore a Hat
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