Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lenona Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips Subject: R.I.P. Don Madden, 96, in June ("Playboy" cartoonist) Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 16:31:14 +0000 Organization: Rocksolid Light Message-ID: <3e781ce750b829b4a1ec0ba4ed54e75b@www.novabbs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2372277"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="Kqs4ACdyLX8HE7EBGboQEmkQLRbAFWVcNO/xh3qjtxc"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Posting-User: c99a39502307816117f2023957139f4aa0bc3423 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$dtAP4qMNP1G1j/bdRZ7oKuV8sQzBfWsU4BRwNplzugEZcSK9NBKrq X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Bytes: 5940 Lines: 130 Just found it. He lived in Ballston Spa, New York, about 25 miles north of Albany. https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/06/16/don-madden-rip/ Quite a few links, with his artwork! Also, from his brother: https://maddenmischief.com/2024/06/16/don-madden-left-this-week-for-studio-in-heaven-but-my-brothers-cartoons-will-live-on-forever/ Excerpts: ...Don graduated from the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, which was his well-known concert violinist dad’s idea. Our father, William J. Madden, was also a magician. When he saw Don’s creative flair, he envisioned pulling a talented artist son instead of a rabbit out of his hat. Soon after graduating, Don’s talent manifests in his humorous drawings and illustrations appearing in magazines and in national advertising. He became a well-known illustrator of children’s books, including “The Wartville Wizard.” Besides being a talented artist, my dear departed artistic brother Don Madden was an effective writer whose works he drew from knowledge he had amassed from such diverse interests as nature, archeology, literature, music and history... https://www.instagram.com/p/C8M-poHp0x-/?img_index=1 (from his daughter) _______________________________________ What I posted in 2017: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.books.childrens/c/0RsrxtwI030/m/A1r85Bq3BgAJ (with reviews and videos) Excerpts: He's illustrated books by Rudyard Kipling and William Jay Smith, among dozens of others. http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2012/01/wartville-wizard.html ("The Wartville Wizard." "An old man fights a town of litterbugs by magically sending each piece of trash back to the person who dropped it.") WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: * (Self-illustrated) Lemonade Serenade (juvenile), Albert Whitman, 1966. * The Wartville Wizard, Macmillan (New York), 1986. Illustrator: * H. Allen Smith, Let the Crabgrass Grow, Geis, 1960. * Hector H. Lee and Donald Roberson, Lore of Our Land, a Book of American Folklore, Harper, 1963. * Mary C. Austin and Queenie B. Mills, The Sound of Poetry, Allyn & Bacon, 1964. * Donald Barr, Arithmetic for Billygoats, Harcourt, 1966. * William D. Sheldon, Nellie Lyons, and Polly Rouault, The Reading of Poetry, Allyn & Bacon, 1966. * Ernestine Beyer, The Story of Lengthwise, Follett, 1967. * Paul Showers, A Drop of Blood, Crowell, 1967. * Judy Hawes, Why Frogs Are Wet, Crowell, 1968. * Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child, Columbia Book & Record Library, 1968. * William J. Smith, Around My Room, Columbia Book & Record Library, 1968. * William J. Smith, Laughing Time, Columbia Book & Record Library, 1969. * William J. Smith, Grandmother Ostrich, Columbia Book & Record Library, 1969. * Gloria Miklowitz, The Parade Starts at Noon, Putnam, 1969. * Patricia Lauber, Curious Critters, Garrard, 1969. * Robert Stewart, The Daddy Book, American Heritage Press, 1972. * Harold Longman, The Castle of a Thousand Cats, Addison-Wesley, 1972. * Rudyard Kipling, How the Whale Got His Throat, Addison-Wesley, 1973. * Mary Christian, Nothing Much Happened Today, Addison-Wesley, 1973. * Sally Cartwright, Sand, Coward, 1975. * Christian, No Dogs Allowed, Jonathan, Addison-Wesley, 1975. * Jeannette Bruce, Judo: A Gentle Beginning, Crowell, 1975. * Norman Smith, Sun Power, Coward, 1976. * Burton and Rita Marks, Give a Magic Show!, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard (New York), 1977. * Judith L. Gersting, Yes-no, Stop-Go: Some Patterns in Mathematical Logic, Crowell (New York), 1977. * Paul Showers, Me and My Family Tree, Crowell (New York), 1978. * George Sullivan, Run, Run Fast!, Crowell (New York), 1980. * Eve Bunting, The Skate Patrol, A. Whitman (Chicago, IL), 1980. * Franlyn M. Branley, The Planets in Our Solar System, Crowell (New York), 1981. * Mary Blount Christian, Two-Ton Secret, A. Whitman (Chicago, IL), 1981. * Norman F. Smith, Wind Power, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan (New York), 1981. * Christian, The Green Thumb Thief, A. Whitman (Chicago, IL), 1982. * Edward R. Ricciuti, How to Box: A Guide for Beginners, Crowell (New York), 1982. * Sullivan, Quarterback, Crowell (New York), 1982. * Haas, E.A., Incognito Mosquito : Private Insective, 1982 * Bunting, The Skate Patrol Rides Again, A. Whitman (Chicago, IL), 1982. * Christian, The Undercover Kids and the Museum Mystery, A. Whitman (Niles, IL), 1983. * Branley, Is There Life in Outer Space?, Crowell (New York), 1984. * Sullivan, Pitcher, Crowell (New York), 1986. * Sullivan, Center, Crowell (New York), 1988. * Branley, The Sun, Our Nearest Star, Harper & Row (New York), 1988. * Kelly Goldman and Ronnie Davidson, Sherlick Hound and the Valentine Mystery, A. Whitman (Niles, IL), 1989. * E. A. Hass, Incognito Mosquito Flies Again!, Bullseye Books (New York), 1990. * Melvin and Gilda Berger, Telephones, Televisions, and Toilets: how They Work and What Can Go Wrong, Ideals Children's Books (Nashville, TN), 1993.