Steeplechase

Published in the United States by Simon & Schuster, Alain's Steeplechase is an exceptional and highly collectible vintage graphic humor anthology celebrating twenty-five years of brilliant cartooning by Alain, the pseudonym of Swiss-born artist and illustrator Daniel Brustlein. Renowned for his long-standing contributions to The New Yorker magazine, Alain brought a refined European sensibility, elegant draftsmanship, and quiet comedic irony to mid-century American publication art.

The front cover of the dust jacket features a vibrant rose-pink background with prominent top title lettering in bold black script reading Alain's STEEPLECHASE. A vivid green circular inset frames a humorous line art illustration depicting a family enjoying a casual picnic on the grass right beside a steeplechase track barrier, completely unbothered as a pack of racehorses leaps directly over them. Inside, the pages gather two hundred and fifty of Alain's finest single-panel gags and visual vignettes spanning from the 1930s through the 1950s. An essential centerpiece collectible for vintage New Yorker cartoon collectors, humor book historians, and mid-century graphic art archives.