Eldon Dedini
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Eldon Dedini (June 29, 1921 – January 12, 2006) was an American cartoonist whose work appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Playboy and elsewhere.
Life
Dedini was born in King City, California, on June 29, 1921; his father was a dairy farmer, his mother a schoolteacher. He studied at Salinas Junior College, where Leon Amyx was on the teaching staff, and then at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. There he met Virginia Conroy; they were married on July 15, 1944. They adopted a baby boy called john in 1960.{{r|anb}}
Dedini died at his home in Carmel, California, on January 12, 2006 at the age of 84.{{r|anb}}
Exhibitions
- Broccoli & Babes: The Cartoons and Posters of Eldon Dedini: November 4, 2005—January 20, 2006 at the Sasoontsi Gallery, Salinas, Calif.
- Monterey Museum of Art "Arriola, Dedini, Ketchum" 1982
Awards
Dedini received the National Cartoonists Society's Gag Cartoon Award in 1958, 1961, 1964 and 1988.
Bibliography
- Illustrations for Bantam Books editions of Max Shulman works:
- Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, (1958) (1959)
- Barefoot Boy with Cheek (1959)
- Sleep Till Noon (1959)
- I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf (1960)
- The Feather Merchants
- Anyone Got a Match (1965)
- The Dedini Gallery. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York (1961)
- A Much, Much Better World. Microsoft Press, Bellevue WA (1985)
- Fantagraphics Books published a posthumous collection of his work, An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini ({{ISBN|1-56097-727-2}}) in 2006. Introduction by political cartoonist Dennis Renault. The book is bundled with a documentary "Dedini: A Life of Cartoons" by Anson Musselman.
References
Sources
- [http://www.anb.org/articles/17/17-01703.html American National Biography Online]
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/14/arts/14dedini.html New York Times report of death] Retrieved January 14, 2006
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060218172237/http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/local/13626556.htm Monterey Herald obituary] Retrieved January 14, 2006 (reprinted at [http://emdashes.com/2006/01/i-never-asked-him-to-redraw-el.php emdashes.com]
- "Broccoli and Babes," an article by Ben Bamsey in Artworks (winter 2005): 58-63
- Dedini's papers and original art are archived at the Cartoon Research Library at Ohio State University, which also has on file a videotape of his presentation at the 2001 Festival of Cartoon Art, sponsored by the Cartoon Research Library, during which Dedini showed slides of his cartoons and commented on them, offering a description of his working methods and attitudes.
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20051228043005/http://www.reuben.org/ncs/awards.asp NCS Awards]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080919103206/http://www.animationarchive.org/2007/03/pinups-eldon-dedinis-satyrs-and-nymphs.html ASIFA: Hollywood Animation Archive]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130927165221/https://cartoonbank.licensestream.com/LicenseStream/Store/Content?Filter.SearchString=eldon%20dedini cartoons published in the New Yorker]
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