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Steig's drawings seem to flow effortlessly from his mind to his pen and onto the paper.

Steig writes, "His mother was ugly and his father was ugly, but Shrek was uglier than the two of them put together. "

Steig cautioned that the limitations of the data make it hard to predict future temperature changes in the region.

My measuring stick was the great New Yorker cartoonist William Steig.

Perhaps Steig's most famous cartoon of this period is "Mother loved me but she died, " from The Lonely Ones (1942).

These demonstrate Steig's ear for language, and also demonstrate his ability to look at life through a child's eyes.

The movie version of Steig's story is a sort of fairy tale in reverse .

A longer version of this essay will appear in Cats, Dogs, Men, Women, Ninnies, &Clowns: The Lost Art of William Steig.

Steig, who was a follower of Wilhelm Reich, was deeply interested in psychology.

I knew I could never compare with Steig, but I didn't want to embarrass myself, either.

In fact, Steig and his colleagues found that western Antarctica has warmed by as much as one degree Celsius since 1957.

A fairy tale picture book written by William Steig inspired its story.

To quote Pablo Picasso, Steig's favorite artist, "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. "

"This study showing warming means we can't be complacent about thinking the West Antarctica ice sheet is invulnerable, " Steig said.

Steig's drawings throw open a bunch of windows and let in some fresh air, for which I am deeply grateful.