Eldon Dedini
Eldon Dedini (June 29, 1921 – January 12, 2006) was an American cartoonist whose work appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Playboy and elsewhere.
Eldon Dedini
- Born
- 1921 · King City.
- Died
- 2006 · Carmel-by-the-Sea.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- cartoonist · illustrator
- Fields
- erotic art
- Languages
- English
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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.
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Eldon Dedini (1921–2006) was a cartoonist and illustrator, of American nationality. The cartoonist was born in King City and died in Carmel-by-the-Sea. Activity centred on erotic art. Languages used include English.
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Life
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 Giulio Martin in 1960. Dedini died at his home outside of Carmel, Calif., on January 12, 2006 at the age of 84.
Exhibitions
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
Identity
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Eldon Dedini is recorded as cartoonist and illustrator.
Life and career
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1921
Eldon Dedini born at King City.
2006
Eldon Dedini died at Carmel-by-the-Sea.
2006
An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini (2006) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
2006
An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini digitised by Open Library.
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King City.
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Carmel-by-the-Sea.
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reference work
- “Eldon Dedini”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q5354027: Eldon Dedini
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scholarly publication
- Dedini, Eldon Lawrence (1921-2006), cartoonist, American National Biography Online, 2008
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2008
Awards
Dedini received the National Cartoonists Society's Gag Cartoon Award in 1958, 1961, 1964 and 1988.
Literature
Literature
Dedini, Eldon Lawrence (1921-2006), cartoonist, American National Biography Online, 2008
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- 1.Pflug, Wendy. The Eldon Dedini Collection: Broccoli, Babes, and Everything Else. Journal of Archival Organization. 11. 3–4. 132–145. 2013-12-01. 1533-2748.
- 2.Robert C. Harvey (October 2008). Dedini, Eldon Lawrence (29 June 1921–12 January 2006). American National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. .
Bibliography printed in the source article · 15
- 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)
- Pflug, Wendy. The Eldon Dedini Collection: Broccoli, Babes, and Everything Else. Journal of Archival Organization. 11. 3–4. 132–145. 2013-12-01. 1533-2748.
- American National Biography Online
- New York Times report of death Retrieved January 14, 2006
- Monterey Herald obituary Retrieved January 14, 2006 (reprinted at 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.
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Dedini, Eldon Lawrence (1921-2006), cartoonist, American National Biography Online, 2008Crossref registry
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