Eldon Dedini (June 29, 1921 – January 12, 2006) was an American cartoonist whose work appeared in ''

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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. Dedini died at his home in

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, on January 12, 2006 at the age of 84.

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

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's Gag Cartoon Award in 1958, 1961, 1964 and 1988.

Bibliography

* Illustrations for

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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) *

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published a posthumous collection of his work, ''An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini'' () 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

American National Biography Online

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* "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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