Bruce McCall

Bruce McCall (10 ga Mayu, 1935 - 5 ga Mayu, 2023) marubuci ne kuma mai zane-zane na Kanada, wanda aka fi sani da gudummawarsa akai-akai ga mujallu na The New Yorker da National Lampoon . Ya wallafa tarin ayyuka da yawa, da kuma tarihin rayuwa guda biyu da littafin yara.

 Rayuwa da aiki 
An haifi McCall a ranar 10 ga Mayu, 1935, a Simcoe, Ontario .  Ya yi sha'awar littattafan ban dariya kuma ya nuna ƙwarewar farko don zana injunan tashi masu ban sha'awa, blimps, motocin tsoka masu ƙuƙwalwa da dioramas na gaba. A cikin tarihinsa, Thin Ice (1997), McCall ya ba da labarin cewa bai taɓa yin aiki mai kyau ba a matsayin yaro, amma zai iya dogaro da mahaifiyarsa don ƙarfafa kirkirarsa. 

A ƙarshen shekarun 1950, McCall ya fara aikinsa na zane-zane a Toronto ba tare da wani horo mai mahimmanci ba, yana zana motoci ga Ford_Motor_Company" id="mwIg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ford Motor Company">Kamfanin Motar Ford. Ayyukansa daga baya sun canza zuwa talla. A cikin 1962, McCall ya fara aiki na rubuce-rubucen talla a kamfanin Campbell Ewald a Detroit, wanda David E. Davis Jr., babban editan Car and Driver da kuma wanda ya kafa mujallar Automobile ya jagoranta.[1] Daga baya ya ci gaba da rubuta tallace-tallace ga Ford da Mercedes-Benz a hukumar Ogilvy, kuma ya koma Jamus na ɗan lokaci don jagorantar tallace-tafiye ga Mercedes-Benz. Ya zama mataimakin shugaban zartarwa kuma darektan kirkirar kamfanin talla na McCall (wanda McCall ba shi da alaƙa) kafin ya bar a 1993 don neman damar bugawa.

A shekara ta 1972 McCall ya shiga National Lampoon, inda aikinsa na zane-zane ya zama sananne saboda basira da ban dariya. A wani ɗan gajeren lokaci a ƙarshen shekarun 1970, ya rubuta zane-zane don Asabar Night Live . Yawancin ayyukan McCall suna da taken retrofuturistic. Ayyukan McCall sun bayyana a kai a kai a cikin mujallu kamar Car and Driver  da The New Yorker, inda ya fara ba da gudummawa a shekara ta 1979.  A matsayinsa na mai ban dariya, McCall akai-akai ya rubuta rubutun ga sashin "Shouts & Murmurs" na New Yorker, kuma ya rubuta abubuwan da suka shafi rayuwar zamani. Ya ba da gudummawa fiye da 80 ga mujallar a cikin aikinsa.

McCall ya zauna a Upper West Side na Manhattan a Birnin New York kusa da Central Park tare da matarsa, Polly, da 'yarsa. A ranar 5 ga Mayu, 2023, ya mutu daga rikitarwa daga Cutar Parkinson a Asibitin Calvary a Bronx. Yana da shekaru 87. 

 Littattafan da aka zaɓa 

 Littattafai 

 (1982) Zany Afternoons  
 (1993) Ka zauna! : Hotunan Dog na Thierry Poncelet, rubutun Bruce McCall  
 (1997) Thin Ice (memoir)  
 (1998) Viagra Nation: Jagora na Ƙarshe zuwa Rayuwa a cikin Sabon Utopia na Jima'i  
 (2001) Ka zauna! : Hotunan Dog na Tsohon  
 (2001) Mafarki na Ƙarshe-o-Rama  
 (2003) New York zuwa Duniya Mural 8th Ave da 34th Street
 (2003) Duk nama yana kama da Kudancin Amurka  
 (2008) Marveltown  
 (2009) 50 Abubuwan da za a yi da Littafin  
 (2013) An yi wannan ƙasar don ku da ni (Amma Mafi yawa Ni): Biliyoyin a cikin daji (tare da David Letterman)  
 (2020) Ta yaya na isa nan? ISBN 9780399172281 

 Labarai 

 Bayani 

Rukuni:Mutuwan 2023
Rukuni:Haihuwan 1935