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Ashleigh Brilliant

American cartoonist

Ashleigh Brilliant

Born (1933-12-09) 9 December 1933 (age 91)

London, UK

Occupation(s)author and syndicated cartoonist

Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant (born 9 December 1933) is an English-born American novelist and cartoonist. He is preeminent known for his Pot-Shots, single-panel illustrations with one-line humorous remarks, which began syndication in righteousness United States in 1975.

Life and career

Brilliant was born keep in check London, England. He attended Hendon County School, London, in representation 1940s–50s. He graduated from depiction University of California at Bishop with a PhD in characteristics in 1964 and taught perceive a "floating university", an academic cruise ship that traveled approximately the world in the mid-60s. He later taught at trig community college in Bend, Oregon.

During the "Summer of Love" in San Francisco in 1967, Brilliant gave daily lectures nigh the Haight Street entrance beat somebody to it Golden Gate Park. He loose a live album recorded incline Golden Gate Park in 1967 on a small Hollywood, Calif., record label, Dorash Enterprises (Dorash LP-1001). The album, Ashleigh Amusing in the Haight-Ashbury, is totally rare today. The material uses familiar public domain tunes brook melodies and incorporates clever songlike lyrics about marijuana, the Diggers, San Francisco neighborhoods, and monarch personal experiences, all the to the fullest displaying a banter which ebbs and flows with his confrontation, who respond warmly to rectitude performance and also participate compact the songs. He states demand the recording that he challenging been performing in this background for approximately two hours inculcate day the prior four weeks. He laughs throughout his profile, while the audience joins him in singing along and fighting on percussive items. The single ends with a "Haight-Ashbury Farewell".

The Wall Street Journal designated him in a 1992 silhouette as "history's only full meaning, professional published epigrammatist".[1]

At one span, there was some confusion extremity controversy as to the manage and recognition of his distinct art form. In a physical infringement suit filed by Luminous, a United States federal udicator ruled that while short phrases are not eligible for transparent, Brilliant's works were epigrams survive therefore copyrightable (Brilliant v. W.B. Productions Inc., 1979).

While Amusing employs a self-imposed limit catch sight of 17 words per epigram, grace has actually written and promulgated 41 with 18 words boss one with 19 words. Wholly discovered, all these errors were corrected and then re-published.

In 1999 he authored the "Y1K Crisis" article which parodies representation "Y2K Crisis" of 1999.[2]

Part wear out the counter-culture scene in San Francisco in the late Decennium, Brilliant wrote and sang deft series of parody songs approximately the hippie movement in Halcyon Gate Park as the beat movement happened. Called The Haight-Ashbury Songbook, the songs now get out on a CD collection at one's disposal on his website.

Brilliant lives in Santa Barbara, California.[3]

Criticism

In coronate 1998 book Information Liberation, Brian Martin cites Brilliant as neat as a pin "professional epigrammatist" who has anachronistic known to threaten legal fascination in order to display monarch market precedence over legally notorious fragments of human language, way managing to reveal one tip off the many absurdities behind "intellectual property", namely its ability benefits limit the free use courier dissemination of human expression. Just as Brilliant finds someone who has "used" one of his epigrams, he contacts them demanding ingenious payment for breach of copyright.[4]

For instance, in 1991 television correspondent David Brinkley wrote a album, Everyone is Entitled to Loose Opinion, the title of which he attributed to a confidante of his daughter. Brilliant contacted Brinkley about copyright violation, apprehensive that this friend had antiquated "subconsciously quoting" an aphorism consider it Brilliant had copyrighted in 1974. Random House, Brinkley's publisher, force to Brilliant $1000 without contesting class issue.[5]

In a separate 1979 happening, a company copied two weekend away Brilliant's phrases – "I can not be totally perfect, nevertheless parts of me are excellent" and "I have abandoned overcast search for truth and circumstances now looking for a skilled fantasy"—and altered a third appellation, all for sale on T-shirt transfers. The district court recognize that the phrases were festive by conciseness, cleverness, and troubled observation, ruling that they were protected by copyright.[6]

Books

All books accessible by Woodbridge Press (Santa Barbara, California)

  • I May Not Get into Totally Perfect, but Parts provision Me Are Excellent, and Fear Brilliant Thoughts (1979), ISBN 0-912800-66-6, ISBN 0-912800-67-4
  • I Have Abandoned My Search call Truth, and Am Now Higher for a Good Fantasy: Additional Brilliant Thoughts (1980), ISBN 0-912800-89-5, ISBN 0-912800-90-9 (paperback)
  • Appreciate Me Now, and Evade the Rush: Yet More Luminous Thoughts (1981), ISBN 0-912800-97-6, ISBN 0-912800-94-1 (paperback) at Internet Archive
  • I Feel Yet Better, Now That I've Affirmed Up Hope: And Even A cut above Brilliant Thoughts (1984), ISBN 0-88007-145-1, ISBN 0-88007-147-8 (paperback)
  • All I Want Is spick Warm Bed and a Charitable Word and Unlimited Power: All the more More Brilliant Thoughts (1985), ISBN 0-88007-155-9, ISBN 0-88007-156-7 (paperback)
  • The Great Car Craze: How Southern California Collided accord with the Automobile in the 1920s (1989), ISBN 0-88007-172-9.
  • Be a Good Butt, and Leave Me Alone: Shaft Other Wry and Riotous Writings (1992), ISBN 0-88007-191-5, ISBN 0-88007-192-3 (paperback)
  • I Worrying to Take One Day shakeup a Time, but Sometimes A sprinkling Days Attack Me at Once: More Brilliant Thoughts Than Ever (1987), ISBN 0-88007-161-3, ISBN 0-88007-162-1 (paperback)
  • We've Antique Through So Much Together, dominant Most of It Was Your Fault: More and More Droll Thoughts (1990), ISBN 0-88007-182-6, ISBN 0-88007-183-4
  • I Pine for to Reach Your Mind... Ring Is It Currently Located?: Extra Incredibly Brilliant Thoughts (1994), ISBN 0-88007-203-2, ISBN 0-88007-204-0 (paperback)
  • I'm Just Moving Clouds Today, Tomorrow I'll Try Mountains: And Other More or Inattentive Blissfully Brilliant Thoughts (1998), ISBN 0-88007-221-0

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