Media: Eldon Dedini

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Recently, we posted a group of Playboy cartoons by Erich Sokol. Today, we are featuring the work of Eldon Dedini.

Dedini started out as a staff cartoonist at Esquire in 1942, before coming to Hollywood to work in animation. He was a storyboard artist at Universal for a few years in the mid-1940s, and joined Disney as a story artist on "Mickey & the Beanstalk", "Ichabod and Mr Toad" and several Donald Duck shorts. He continued to do cartoons for Esquire during this period, and moved to the New Yorker in 1950. He began contributing cartoons to Playboy in 1960, joining Phil Interlandi, Jack Cole, Doug Sneyd and Erich Sokol. Dedini passed away at his home in Carmel, CA last December.

Chad Coyle was kind enough to lend us his collection of 1960s Playboys to digitize. We are working our way through the stack artist by artist. We'll bring you more featured Playboy cartoonists in a couple of weeks.


Shouldn't we be putting nuts away for the winter or something?


I hope nothing has happened to those two satyrs
who always surprise us at our bath.


What are 'morals'? Another one of your inventions?


Well, I've always looked at it as sort of
stockpiling the American Dream!


Well, I guess it just goes to prove that
not all God's children got rhythm.


You know, I think I'm actually learning
quite a lot at my Mother's Knee, Mom.


Be sure to notice her dress. It's a topless.


It's become traditional. During the holidays
the country cousin visits the city cousin.


Hi!


Carl is always so interested in people


Terrific, eh? Each year we rent the old lady and come
out here and have a real underground Christmas.



Look at it this way- your medium is your message!


Wow! This is the most consciousness-expanding
plum pudding I've ever eaten!


Don't you find that some New Years
are harder to bring in than others?


Young man, you should be asleep!

For more info on the great cartoonists who worked for Playboy in the 1960s, see our posts on... Erich Sokol, Doug Sneyd and Phil Interlandi.

Thanks
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive

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