Bruce McCall was a Canadian author and illustrator, best known for his frequent contributions to The New Yorker.
11 Facts About Bruce McCall
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Bruce McCall was fascinated by comic books and showed an early aptitude for drawing fantastical flying machines, blimps, bulbous-nosed muscle cars and futuristic dioramas.
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At the ad agency Campbell-Ewald, McCall met and worked with David E Davis Jr.
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Bruce McCall temporarily relocated to Germany after he was put in charge of Mercedes-Benz advertising.
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Bruce McCall spent a brief period writing sketches for Saturday Night Live.
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Bruce McCall illustrated magazine covers, regularly appearing in The New Yorker, Car and Driver, and other magazines.
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Bruce McCall has been a contributor to the magazine since 1979.
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Bruce McCall was a humourist, and has written essays on some of the social ironies of modern life.
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Bruce McCall contributed more than 80 covers to the magazine over the course of his career.
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Bruce McCall lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City near Central Park.
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Bruce McCall died of complications from Parkinson's disease on May 5,2023, at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx.