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Lou Brooks (born 1944 in Abington, Pennsylvania) is a self-taught American illustrator, cartoonist, and author. He is best known for his precise bold line work and graphic reinterpretation of mid-twentieth century comics, magazines, advertising, and other popular culture from the period.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Meet Lou Brooks, As.D. * - Our Founder & Curator )〕 ==History and Influences== Until the age of nine, Brooks lived with his parents and grandparents in Warminster, Pennsylvania. His grandfather, an immigrant brick layer from Piacenza, Italy, built the house by hand. By this time, Brooks's father had returned from World War II, and, in order to raise his family, had abandoned his pursuit of having a career as a comic strip artist. Brooks found himself immersed in his father's art supplies and discarded sketch books of unfinished comic strips, and easily took to drawing cartoons at an early age.〔"Lou Brooks - Cartoonists Survey #250" (David Wasting Paper ) Retrieved 14 March 2014.〕 In 1954, he and his family moved to Levittown, Pennsylvania, and a life of postwar conformity in a community of over 17,000 assembly-line homes on 22 square miles. It was the largest suburban planned community in the United States.〔Wagner, Richard and Amy Duckett, ''Images of America: Levittown'' (Charleston SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2010), p. 7. ISBN 0-7385-7276-4.〕 Living there greatly affected what was to become Brooks's lifelong aversion to sameness. Nevertheless, the suburban baby boomer popular culture of the 1950s,〔Hine, Thomas, ''Populuxe'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1986) ISBN 0-394-74014-9.〕 which included comic books, cars, rock and roll music, and television, influenced Brooks's sensibilities to a large extent. His career in art began in 1965 as a production artist in the advertising art department of a Philadelphia newspaper, which he credits as giving him a thorough well-rounded knowledge of the graphic arts. He and his wife, Clare Vanacore, relocated to New York City in 1977, and lived there until 1994. They now reside in Northern California.〔"Illustrator Lou Brooks Talks About His Life and Reading" (readersvoice.com ) Retrieved 14 March 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lou Brooks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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