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Revision as of 08:33, 7 May 2023
Bruce McCall | |
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| Born | May 10, 1935 Simcoe, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | May 5, 2023 (aged 87) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Author Illustrator |
Bruce McCall (May 10, 1935 – May 5, 2023) was a Canadian author and illustrator, best known for his frequent contributions to The New Yorker.
Life and career
McCall was born on May 10, 1935, in Simcoe, Ontario.[1] He was fascinated by comic books and showed an early aptitude for drawing fantastical flying machines, blimps, bulbous-nosed muscle cars and futuristic dioramas. In his memoir, Thin Ice (1997), McCall recounted that he was never good at physical activity as a boy,[2] but could count on his mother to encourage his creativity. Without any serious technical training, McCall began his illustration career drawing cars for Ford Motor Company in Toronto in the 1950s. After several decades in advertising, he sought opportunities elsewhere in the publishing industry.
He went to New York City, and was hired by National Lampoon, where he made a name for himself as an artist with intelligent and whimsical humor. McCall also spent a brief period writing sketches for Saturday Night Live. A large proportion of McCall's work has a retrofuturistic theme.[3] McCall illustrated magazine covers, regularly appearing in The New Yorker,[4] Car and Driver,[5] and other magazines. He has been a contributor to the magazine since 1979. McCall was also a humourist, and has written essays on some of the social ironies of modern life. He wrote frequently for the "Shouts & Murmurs" section of The New Yorker. McCall lived on the Upper West Side of New York near Central Park. He died on May 5, 2023, at Calvary Hospital, of complications from Parkinson's disease.[6]
Selected bibliography
Books
- (1982) Zany Afternoons ISBN 0-394-42683-5
- (1993) Sit!: The Dog Portraits of Thierry Poncelet, text by Bruce McCall ISBN 1-56305-380-2
- (1997) Thin Ice (memoir) ISBN 0-679-76959-5
- (1998) Viagra Nation: The Definitive Guide to Life in the New Sexual Utopia ISBN 0-06-019311-5
- (2001) Sit!: Ancestral Dog Portraits ISBN 0-7611-2544-2
- (2001) The Last Dream-o-Rama ISBN 0-609-60801-0
- (2003) New York to the World Mural 8th Ave and 34th street
- (2003) All Meat Looks Like South America ISBN 0-609-60802-9
- (2008) Marveltown ISBN 0-374-39925-5
- (2009) 50 Things to Do with a Book ISBN 0-06-170366-4
- (2013) This Land Was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me): Billionaires in the Wild (with David Letterman) ISBN 0-399-16368-9
- (2020) How Did I Get Here? ISBN 9780399172281
Articles
- "Looking Forward to Your Check". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. 84 (44): 29. January 12, 2009.
- "Pet Books Proliferate". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. 87 (36): 43. November 14, 2011.
- "Know Your Coconuts". Sketchbook. The New Yorker. 93 (10): 60. April 24, 2017.
Notes
- ^ "Bruce McCall | Authors". Macmillan. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
- ^ "A Long-Suppressed Urge to Be Noisy". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
- ^ McCall, Bruce. "Transcript of "What is retro-futurism?"". Retrieved January 24, 2017.
- ^ Marx, Patricia. "The Driver's Seat". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
- ^ McCall, Bruce (June 22, 2011). "Bruce McCall Presents Notable Automotive First-Aid Kits". Car and Driver. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
- ^ Grimes, William. "Bruce McCall, Satirical Artist Who Conjured a 'Retrofuture,' Dies at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
External links
- McCall's The New Yorker profile
- Bruce McCall discography at Discogs
- Bruce McCall at IMDb
- McCall Creates Schematics of Unlikely Art, NPR interview with McCall by Robert Siegel (2003)
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