**The definitive memoir of the celebrated _New Yorker_ cartoonist and former _Saturday Night Live_ writer, tracing his creative and personal journey from his humble Canadian child- and early-adulthood to his "Mad Men" advertising days and New York City success.** From austere post-WWII Ontario (Si
How Did I Get Here: A Memoir
โ Scribed by Bruce McCall; Adam Gopnik
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group; Blue Rider Press
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 732 KB
- Edition
- (US)
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- United States.
- ISBN
- 0698178998
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
**From his hardscrabble post-World War II Ontario childhood and coming of age to Mad Men -era New York City and the creative pinnacle of advertising, to the hallowed halls of Saturday Night Live and The New Yorker , Bruce McCall's personal and creative journey is stunningly honest, bittersweet, and, above all, inspiring. **
Beloved for his strikingly original and wickedly perceptive New Yorker covers, as well as his many Shouts and Murmurs, Bruce is a rare double threat as an artist and writer. Self-taught in both disciplines, his artistic world has captured the imagination of a loyal fan base that includes no less than David Letterman (whom he coauthored a book with) and other satire aficionados. Pulling no punches, How Did I Get Here? chronicles the evolution of his artistic genius as well as his journey from gifted childhood scribbler to passionate automobile enthusiast, a hobby that took him to the heights of the Detroit and...
โฆ Subjects
United States
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