How to Hit 5 Key Civil War Battle Sites in 5 Hours.Bruce McCall Presents Automotive First-Aid Kits.Overlaid with an Anglo-Canadian's love and loathing of all things British, the genre he helped carve out would become an enduring pillar of American satire, leading even to a short-lived stint in the 1970s as a writer for Saturday Night Live.

His illustrations, which showcased the automotive and aeronautical themes that first captured his interest during what he would describe as a resolutely grim Canadian boyhood, defined a genre he'd come to call 'retro-futurism,' a self-created style that at once mocked and celebrated the over-the-top enthusiasm and huckster's bluster that characterized mid-20th-century American marketing, nowhere more shamelessly than in the sale of new automobiles. Though known to the non-enthusiast reading population for the more than 80 covers he created for the New Yorker and the many illustrations and humorous essays he contributed to that tony East Coast periodical, as well as to the madcap 1970s comedic juggernaut the National Lampoon, McCall distinguished himself to the car-loving world with his acerbic and always hilarious work for Car and Driver and Automobile Magazine. His work was particularly adept at skewering the over-the-top style of mid-century American advertising.īruce McCall, one of the funniest men ever to write about cars-and also sketch, draw, and paint them with inimitable style-died yesterday at 87, owing to complications arising from Parkinson's disease.

McCall was equally prolific as an illustrator and as a writer.

Bruce McCall, the legendary humorist and longtime contributor to Car and Driver, has died.

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