{"id":26489,"date":"2023-05-09T12:07:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=26489"},"modified":"2023-05-09T12:07:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:07:45","slug":"obit-watch-may-9-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=26489","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: May 9, 2023."},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruce McCall<\/a>, artist.<\/p>\n

Borrowing from the advertising style seen in magazines like Life, Look and Collier\u2019s in the 1930s and \u201940s, Mr. McCall depicted a luminous fantasyland filled with airplanes, cars and luxury liners of his own creation. 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.<\/a>
\n\u201cMy work is so personal and so strange that I have to invent my own lexicon for it,\u201d Mr. McCall said in a TED Talk in 2008. He called it \u201cretrofuturism,\u201d which he defined as \u201clooking back to see how yesterday viewed tomorrow.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

In 1970, Mr. McCall and his friend Brock Yates, the editor of Car and Driver, invented a series of mythical airplanes, among them the Humbley-Pudge Gallipoli Heavyish Bomber, for which they wrote pseudo-scholarly historical notes. Playboy bought the idea, assigned Mr. McCall to do the illustrations and ran the collaboration in January 1971 under the title \u201cMajor Howdy Bixby\u2019s Album of Forgotten Warbirds.\u201d It went on to win Playboy\u2019s annual humor award.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition to “Playboy”, “National Lampoon”, and the “New Yorker”, he was briefly a writer for “Saturday Night Live” and also did work for “Car and Driver”. Lawrence<\/a> sent over an obit from that august publication<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bruce McCall, artist. Borrowing from the advertising style seen in magazines like Life, Look and Collier\u2019s in the 1930s and \u201940s, Mr. McCall depicted a luminous fantasyland filled with airplanes, cars and luxury liners of his own creation. It was a world populated by carefree millionaires who expected caviar to be served in the stations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26491,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26489\/revisions\/26491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}