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  • R.I.P. Bruce McCall, 87, in May (Canadian-born cartoonist: "The New Yor

    From Lenona@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 22 17:26:02 2023
    He died five days before his 88th birthday.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/arts/bruce-mccall-illustrator-dead.html

    https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/05/06/bruce-mccall-rip/
    (this has a lot of his artwork)

    https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43809148/bruce-mccall-obituary/
    (a long obit)

    https://paleofuture.com/blog/2023/5/5/retrofuture-artist-bruce-mccall-dies-at-87
    (a shorter one - "Bruce McCall, Retrofuture Artist and 'Visual Poet of American Gigantism', Dies at 87")

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_McCall

    https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.books.childrens/c/7WX8_UFlslw/m/wc9GS6PS0ccJ
    (birthday post from 2015 - with videos, booklist, and more "New Yorker" covers)

    Excerpt:

    (About the book This Land Was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me):
    Billionaires in the Wild):
    ...McCall and Letterman present a gleefully over-the-top catalog of excess
    and vice, indulged in without a hint of shame or social conscious by
    the oblivious one-percenters they've created to endure their broad mockery.
    The book describes several ostentatious monuments to wealth and
    exploitation, including one billionaire's Montana hunting lodge that
    has its own indoor landing strip, another's mile-long fireplace that
    requires a full-time fire-control crew to take care of the sixty blazes
    that burn within it, and a tube made from hollowed-out redwood trees
    that extends the width of the country...

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