in memoriam

12/28/12 08:15

I received some sad news over Christmas, telling of the death of St. Petersburg cartoonist Leonid Melnik.

I met Leonid for the first time in 2001, with his two friends Victor Bogorad and Vyacheslav Shilov (the triumvirate that formed the group Nuance). I had been communicating with Slava by e-mail and when I arrived in town the three of them took me to Victor's studio for dinner, vodka, cartoon viewing and laughter. My story about the evening appears in my book A Way to See the World.

Leonid seemed the quietest of the three, in part because he spoke no English. Victor didn't either, but he had more of a larger-than-life personality.

I returned to St. Petersburg in 2006, when we recreated the evening in Victor's studio, and again in 2007, when we met in a steakhouse Slava had helped decorate. Leonid had published a book; it was in Russian, but it contained a number of cartoons that - like those of his friends - needed no captions. One showed a little girl holding a teddy bear and looking into the cage of a bear holding a doll.

In the taxi back to my hotel, Leonid pulled out a copy of his book and wrote on the title page: "For Tom with love from author Leon Melnik." Then, after presenting it to me, he took out a piece of paper and drew me a cartoon.

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