Daily post &Illustration 19 Jan 2007 08:24 am
J.P.Miller and Art Buchwald
- John Canemaker wrote to tell me that he has a cover story in the new issue of CARTOONS, the International Journal of Animation (Vol. 2, Winter 2006), which is now available.
The story is about Disney storyman and beloved children’s book illustrator, J.P. Miller (1913-2004). “In Search of John Parr Miller,” which contains all new research by Canemaker and biographical material never before published on Miller, is the first of a two-part series (with 13 profusely illustrated pages).
This is the link to a “Remembrance” of Miller by his brother, George, on Cartoon Brew.
Other samples of Miller’s work are Part I and Part 2 and Part 3 and here and here.
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Humorist Art Buchwald died on Wednesday and was reported in yesterday’s late editions of the newspapers. The NY Times has their traditional obituary on the front page of the paper as does the Washington Post.
However, the Times gave Buchwald the opportunity of doing a digital streaming obituary, and he did. It begins with the lines:
“Hi I’m Art Buchwald, and I just died.”
I loved Buchwald’s column in the Washington Post; I’ve linked to a number of past articles by him if you’re in the mood for reading.
I used to spend a couple of weeks in the summers vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard. The island has three small movie theaters, and they bicycle movie prints that rotate all three theaters within a week. My favorite of the three was the “Vineyard” theater downtown Vineyard Haven. One year we went to see In The Line of Fire, Clint Eastwood’s fabulous film of intrigue about a Washington security guard protecting the President.
I found myself sitting near Art Buchwald and Mike Wallis. Both lived on the island.
It was amusing that the two of them chatted almost constantly. Throughout the film, whenever D.C. exteriors were shown, the two of them pointed to this hotel or that, what streets they were filming now, what places are no longer there. That type of thing. It was great fun for me to listen in on the two celebrities, D.C. diehards, talk about their city.
