Marveltown by Bruce McCall5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() (The billionaire Russian “oiligarch” whose replica of Czar.) ![]() ![]() This Land Was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me): Billionaires in the Wild McCall lives on the Upper West Side of New York near Central Park. He writes frequently for the "Shouts & Murmurs" section of The New Yorker. McCall is also a humourist, and has written essays on some of the social ironies of modern life. He has been a contributor to the magazine since 1979. McCall has illustrated magazine covers, regularly appearing in The New Yorker and other magazines. McCall also spent a brief period writing sketches for Saturday Night Live. ![]() He went to New York City, and was hired by National Lampoon and made a name for himself as an artist with intelligent and whimsical humor. After several decades in advertising, he sought opportunities elsewhere in the publishing industry. Without any serious technical training, McCall began his illustration career drawing cars for Ford Motor Company in Toronto in the 1950s. Born and raised in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, he 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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