Peter Bramley, 60; Cartoonist, Art Director for National Lampoon
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Peter Bramley, 60, a cartoonist who was the first art director of National Lampoon magazine, died of pneumonia April 12 in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Bramley helped establish Cloud Studio in New York City in 1967. It was an alternative-culture studio that combined an interest in comics and theater with commercial art and illustration.
His comics earned the attention of the National Lampoon’s founders, who hired Bramley and partner Bill Skurski in 1970 as art directors for the first issues.
They were replaced after a year, but Bramley continued to contribute comics and illustrations through 1973.
A native of Braintree, Mass., Bramley began drawing as a child. Some of his early cartoons appeared in the Patriot Ledger of Quincy, Mass., when he was just 13.
After graduating from the Massachusetts College of Art with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, he moved to New York City and started the Cloud Studio.
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