It’s hardly a secret, but Syd Hoff, whose New Yorker cartoons and kiddy books (Danny and the Dinosaur) flourished for decades, also had a parallel career as “A. Redfield,” a Bolshie cartoonist for the Daily Worker and New Masses.

Most of A. Redfield’s stuff wasn’t very funny, but occasionally . . . it was. The trick seems to have been to ape Peter Arno rather than be stridently commie.