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Steve Martin brings the cartoon fun in ‘A Wealth of Pigeons’

Which came first, the cartoon or the punch line? 

The answer is both, at least in the case of actor-writer Steve Martin and New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss. In an introduction to their marvelously dry and sly book, “A Wealth of Pigeons: A Cartoon Collection,” Martin writes of being paired with Bliss by New Yorker editor Françoise Mouly. “I mentioned that I had a cartoon idea and did

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