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.
[1] Dedini died at his home in Carmel, California, on January 12, 2006 at the age of 84.
[1] Dedini received the National Cartoonists Society's Gag Cartoon Award in 1958, 1961, 1964 and 1988.