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Endpoint: Eldon Dedini (Cartoonist)



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Eldon Dedini (June 29, 1921, King City, California, USA – January 12, 2006, Carmel, California,USA (aged 84)) was an American cartoonist.

His father was a dairy farmer, his mother a schoolteacher. He attended Hartnell College in Salinas and was a graduate of the Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles.
In 1944 he married (fellow art student) painter Virginia Conroy. They adopted a baby boy called john in 1960.
He worked for the Salinas Index-Journal and the Salinas Morning Post as a staff cartoonist, and from 1944-46 for Disney Studios in the Story Department. Subsequently, he was with Esquire magazine from 1946-50 as a staff cartoonist and gagwriter.
His career as a cartoonist is best known from his long association with The New Yorker, starting in 1950 and in 1960 for Playboy magazine until his death in January 2006.

Dedini received the National Cartoonists Society's Gag Cartoon Award in 1958, 1961, 1964 and 1988.

He authored and illustrated an album of cartoons called The Dedini Gallery (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961), A Much Much Better World (Simon & Shuster, 1985) and illustrated books by Max Shulman and Art Buchwald among others. He was also the illustrator of a French Language textbook, La Clef (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970).

Dedini died at his home in Carmel, California, on January 12, 2006 at the age of 84.
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