Marveltown by Bruce McCall7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() To readers of The New Yorker, which ran more than 80 of his gouache-on-paper paintings as covers beginning in 1993, his visual signature and comic universe were as recognizable as those of the magazine’s cartoonists Charles Addams and Roz Chast.Ī wider audience knew Mr. He called it “retrofuturism,” which he defined as “looking back to see how yesterday viewed tomorrow.” “My work is so personal and so strange that I have to invent my own lexicon for it,” Mr. It was a world populated by carefree millionaires who expected caviar to be served in the stations of the fictional Fifth Avenue Subway and carwashes to spray their limousines with champagne. McCall depicted a luminous fantasyland filled with airplanes, cars and luxury liners of his own creation. ![]() His wife, Polly McCall, said his death, at Calvary Hospital, was caused by Parkinson’s disease.īorrowing from the advertising style seen in magazines like Life, Look and Collier’s in the 1930s and ’40s, Mr. Bruce McCall, whose satirical illustrations for National Lampoon and The New Yorker conjured up a plutocratic dream world of luxury zeppelin travel, indoor golf courses and cars like the Bulgemobile Airdreme, died on Friday in the Bronx. ![]()
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