William Steig’s original 1990 picture book Shrek! has a few elements that Shrek fans will remember from the 2001 animated movie it inspired. There’s a big, green, lumbering protagonist with a ...

William Steig, who over seven decades created many of New Yorker magazine's best covers and cartoons and also wrote some of the most beloved of children's books, including "Shrek" and the award ...

William Steig, New Yorker mag illustrator and author of children’s books including “Shrek!,” which was adapted into the acclaimed DreamWorks film, died Friday Oct. 3 of natural causes at his ...

William Steig’s books, ... In the book’s climax, Shrek has to confront his own horrifying visage in a hall of mirrors. “He faced himself, full of rabid self-esteem,” Steig writes, ...

William Steig, an illustrator for The New Yorker, ... Steig’s most popular kids book today is surely “Shrek!”(The title, ironically, is a Yiddish word for fear or terror).