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Steig's witty dialectic on the nature of
existence -- back in print.
In Yellow & Pink . . . Steig has created
a pair of characters who seem the embodiments of his bright esthetic. Named for
the colors of their freshly painted costumes, Pink and Yellow are wooden dolls
left out to dry in the sun. They are odd fellows, bumpkins, incorrigibles,
clowns, countrymen of Beckett's Vladimir and Estragon, Laurel and Hardy.
Philosophers both, they no sooner "awaken," come to life, than they begin to
ponder by what means they might have arrived in this world. "How," Yellow
demands . . . "could anyone make something like me, so intricate, so perfect?
Or, for that matter, like you." . . . One marvels at the expressiveness, the
nearness to animation, of Steig's vibrant drawings.
--Leonard S. Marcus, The Washington Post Book World
Reviews
Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Steig is incomparable. Bravo! A yellow and
a pink puppet lie in the sun, waiting for their paint to dry. They ponder their
origin. They speculate. They debate. As soon as they've settled on a solution, a
mysterious man unsettles their theory. Who is this man? The reader must decide."
Zena Sutherland, Chicago Tribune
"Original, witty, provocative."
Publishers Weekly
"A comic fable that has more clout than the
most fervent homily."
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