The collection / The book
A collection worth
keeping together.
Adolph Strauss’s classic observations, preserved through magazine proofs, original drawings, notes, and correspondence.
The complete volume
Why Is It?
Written by Adolph Strauss
Compiled and collected by Larry Feldman
Read the full volume in your browser’s PDF reader, or download a copy to keep. The original 106-page PDF is included without alteration.
Read the book ↗Download PDFInside the volume
Magazine pages · PDF page 5
Original artwork · PDF page 57
Browse notes & correspondence
Most historical pages are scans. For the artwork, magazine proofs, and correspondence, the separate galleries offer full-size images and page-by-page viewing.
About the collection
Words, drawings, and a paper trail.
Why Is It? pairs Adolph Strauss’s observations of everyday behavior with expressive cartoon illustration. The collected volume identifies George J. Evans Jr., L. D. Warren, Dick Strome, and other artists.
The archive was compiled and collected by Larry Feldman, with additional scanning by Lara Feldman.
This website follows the supplied collection’s groupings. It preserves the distinction between signed work, attributed work, and work whose artist remains unidentified. Original image files and the complete PDF remain available alongside lighter gallery previews.
Page numbers in the galleries follow their individual source archives; they differ from the page numbers in the complete book. Descriptive gallery captions identify visible content and are not presented as original artwork titles.