Remembering Bruce McCall, Satirist and Compleat Canadian
For McCall, the business of getting it down right was a form of self-salvation.
Source: newyorker.com
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For McCall, the business of getting it down right was a form of self-salvation.
On New Yorker covers and elsewhere, he lampooned the rich by forecasting a plutocratic fantasyland — or, as he put it, “looking back to see how yesterday viewed tomorrow.”
Bruce McCall's satirical illustrations for National Lampoon and The New Yorker conjured up a plutocratic dream world of luxury zeppelin travel, indoor golf courses and cars such as the Bulgemobile Airdreme.
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