Eldon Dedini

Eldon Dedini (June 29, 1921 – January 12, 2006) was an American cartoonist whose work appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Playboy and elsewhere.

Dedini was born in King City, California, on June 29, 1921; his father was a dairy farmer, his mother a schoolteacher. He studied at Salinas Junior College, where Leon Amyx was on the teaching staff, and then at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. There he met Virginia Conroy; they were married on July 15, 1944. They adopted a baby boy called Giulio Martin in 1960.

Dedini died at his home outside of Carmel, Calif., on January 12, 2006 at the age of 84.

• Broccoli & Babes: The Cartoons and Posters of Eldon Dedini: November 4, 2005—January 20, 2006 at the Sasoontsi Gallery, Salinas, Calif.
• Monterey Museum of Art "Arriola, Dedini, Ketchum" 1982

Dedini received the National Cartoonists Society's Gag Cartoon Award in 1958, 1961, 1964 and 1988.