插画家 Bernard Kliban介绍:
Kliban B. 出生于纽约,1962年。给花花公子以及纽约客等杂志都画过插画,画风可谓多样。但最出名的还是他的猫漫画:70年代初,生性爱猫的Kliban受到自己养的4只猫的启发开始创作“猫”系列,1975年第一部卡通书正式出版,名字就叫《猫》。
Jim Davis(加菲猫的作者)曾经说过:“我花了很长时间设计加菲猫系列漫画,我打包了一堆漫画样张,寄给几家通讯社,然后就专心祈祷好运降临。前几家都回绝了我,最后和联合通讯社(United Features)联络。后来我才知道,以画猫著名的柯里班(Bernard Kliban)曾经跟他们接触,想制作一个只在周日刊登的猫漫画。柯里班非常有才华,他画的猫曾引起一阵小小的轰动,联合通讯社也想要一些与猫有关的稿子,却不知为什么缘故放弃了柯里班的作品。想必是命运吧。联合通讯社拿到我的第一批稿子,要求看更多的作品。我士气大振,立刻赶绘第二批……”Kliban当时是因为价钱问题没有和联合通讯社,要不是这样,可能今天就没有加菲猫了。
Kliban笔下的大肥猫也许在国内的名声没有加菲大,也没他那么多坏水儿,懒懒的惬意的生活,但看过以后你就会爱上他。令人惋惜的是B.Kliban在90年已经过世,他留下Kliban's cat这个品牌,到现在一直由他同样是画家的妻子管理,另外还建立了Kliban's Cat官方网站,能看到不少可爱的猫。
Bernard Kliban, who signed his work B. Kliban because he hated his first name, studied at the Pratt Institute in New York. During the 1950s, he went to Europe and traveled and painted there for a few years. Back in America, he settled in Marin County, near San Francisco.
Kliban held various jobs, at the same time drawing satirical cartoons. In 1962, he sent some of them to Playboy magazine and was instantly hired. In 1975, his book 'Cat', containing cat drawings, appeared. Several other cartoon books followed, with titles such as 'Never Eat Anything Larger Than Your Head', 'The Biggest Tongue in Tunisia', 'Two Guys Fooling Around with the Moon' and 'Tiny Footprints'.