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Bruce McCall (May 10, 1935 – May 5, 2023) was a Canadian author and illustrator, best known for his frequent contributions to The New Yorker and The National Lampoon. He published several collections of work, two memoirs and children's book, which he wrote and illustrated.
Without any serious technical training, McCall began his illustration career drawing cars for Ford Motor Company in Toronto in the late 1950s before moving into advertising. At the ad agency Campbell Ewald, McCall met and worked with David E. Davis Jr., who later rise to prominence as the Editor in Chief of Car and Driver and founder of the Automobile magazine. Later, in New York, he wrote ad copy for Ford and Mercedes-Benz. He temporarily relocated to Germany after he was put in charge of Mercedes-Benz advertising. After several decades in advertising, he sought opportunities elsewhere in the publishing industry.
During his time in New York City, McCall was hired by National Lampoon, where he made a name for himself as an artist with intelligent and whimsical humor. McCall also spent a brief period writing sketches for Saturday Night Live. A large proportion of McCall's work has a Retrofuturism theme. McCall illustrated magazine covers, regularly appearing in The New Yorker, Car and Driver, and other magazines. He has been a contributor to the magazine since 1979. McCall was also a humourist, and has written essays on some of the social ironies of modern life. He wrote frequently for the "Shouts & Murmurs" section of The New Yorker. He contributed more than 80 covers to the magazine over the course of his career.
McCall lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City near Central Park with his wife, Polly, and daughter, Amanda.[3] He died of complications from Parkinson's disease on May 5, 2023, at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. He was 87.
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